Anyone slipping in five minutes late to The Hypochondriac, to be greeted by songs about foot fungus and wee, would be forgiven for thinking they’d mistakenly booked tickets for Horrible...
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A first for the UK and for Cambridge, the Ocean Film Festival UK Tour was brought to the city with the help of the Cambridge Expedition Society who also provided...
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The centenary of the outbreak of World War One has informed all the arts in 2014, from TV dramas and literature to radio documentaries. But nowhere, so far, have I...
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Directed by Benet Catty, this production of one of Shakespeare’s most frequently performed and fantastical plays is spirited and frequently hilarious. Taking full advantage of the already dreamy setting (the...
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It was always going to be difficult adapting six books and an entire BBC TV series to fit a two-hour stage slot, especially when it’s something as well loved as...
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Dramatic uplighting, a glamorous blonde and a sinister, meandering sax: it’s clear we’re in Hitchcock territory from the very first beats of Dial M for Murder. Originally a play by...
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If you happened to be taking a night-time drive through Barton this weekend, you might have been distracted by the blood-curdling shrieks coming from the usually genteel Burwash Manor. For,...
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The fact that the wonky social norm depicted in Blue Stockings, a play by Jessica Swale currently showing at the ADC, seems so wildly ludicrous shows how far we’ve come...
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It’s a story we all know – probably thanks to Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison’s musical retelling in My Fair Lady – but seeing the story as it was first...
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Moon on a Rainbow Shawl transports us to 1950s Trinidad where, under a yellow moon, trolley driver Ephraim dreams of escape while his young neighbour, the bright Esther, is aglow...