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20 January 2020

Interviewing the Technical Director of THE RISE AND FALL OF LITTLE VOICE

Each of our student shows has a Technical Director, whose job is to oversee and create the technical elements. We spoke to the Technical Director of upcoming show 'The Rise and Fall of Little Voice', GEORGE BATEMAN, about how he plans to burn down a house on-stage!

18 January 2020

Behind-the-Scenes of Writing a Play: Spring Robin

SPRING ROBIN is a new student-written play set inside a University corridor, performing at the Corpus Playroom this week. We spoke to the play's writer, A. TYRRELL, about the process of writing the script.

15 January 2020

Behind-the-scenes of writing a play: CTRL-Z

CTRL-Z is a new student-written play, about a group of people who choose to delete themselves from the Internet, which debuts at the Corpus Playroom next week. We spoke to the show's writer, GEORGIE NEWSON-ERREY, about the writing process.

13 January 2020

Interviewing the Tour Manager for MEASURE FOR MEASURE

MEASURE FOR MEASURE has been touring venues throughout Europe, and will be performing its home run at the ADC Theatre this week. We spoke to the Tour's Manager, PHOEBE SCHENK, about what it's like to organise an international theatre tour.

6 January 2020

Taking Flight: The Journey to 'Are We There Yet?'

This week (Thu 9 - Sat 11 January), The Ministry of Unplanned Occurrences are bringing their latest improvised show, 'Are We There Yet?', to the Corpus Playroom. In this blog, Improviser James Stedman looks back at where the journey to this show all began.

28 November 2019

Cambridge University Ballet Club presents Scheherazade: The Tale of a Thousand and One Nights

Cambridge University Ballet Club presents its very first production for the ADC Theatre. Their original ballet, 'Scheherazade: The Tale of One Thousand and One Nights', will appear in early December as a closing show of this season.

28 November 2019

Interviewing the Directors of THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS

With less than two weeks until The Wind in the Willows performs at the ADC Theatre, we spoke to the show's directors, Maddie Forrester and Helen McCallum, about what makes this show a classic.

12 November 2019

Interviewing the Writer and Director of RUST

'Rust' is an award-winning original musical coming to the ADC Theatre after its critically-acclaimed run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. We woke to the show's writer, HELENA FOX, and director, IZZY COLLIE-COUSINS, about their production.

21 October 2019

An Interview with the Director of Twelfth Night

Twelfth Night is arriving at the ADC Theatre nexxt week. The show's director, ISSY SNAPE, talks to us about transporting Shakespeare's story to a new time and place.

11 October 2019

Staging Danai Gurira's 'The Convert' in Black History Month | An Interview with Director Dami Laoye

October is Black History Month, and from Tuesday 22 to Saturday 26 October we are proud to be staging Danai Gurira’s ‘The Convert’, starring the largest all-black cast the ADC Theatre has seen. In this interview, Director Dami Laoye discusses the play’s importance to the present day and what he hopes a modern audience will take from its compelling interrogation of a pivotal point in colonial history.