Edition breaks down the Mumford Theatre’s upcoming Spring season
The Mumford Theatre is a popular local venue for the whole community, and yearly presents a range of touring professional, local and student theatrical productions. With the capacity to seat 270 and more than affordable prices, plus concessions, its 2016 season is set to impress. Get your diaries at the ready!
March is putting its best foot first with a world premiere. Icarus Theatre Collective will perform the first adaptation of H P Lovecraft’s masterpiece of horror At the Mountains of Madness on 1 March. Starring RSC actor and RADA faculty member Tim Hardy, for £12.50 it’s a must-see show. Then there’s The Good Person of Szechuan produced by Theatrical Niche on 8 and 9 March. After that is a triple bill from the Young Actors Company, favourites at the Mumford. On 14-15 March their Upper Stage Academy will perform Hecabe and The Women of Troy by Euripides, translated by Phillip Velacott. Then on 19-20 March the Senior Stage Academy will perform The Odyssey. Tickets to both shows are £10, with £7 concessions.
The name of the game in April is variety. The Cambridge Arts Theatre gets light-hearted with London Contemporary Theatre performing Stig of the Dump on 9 April, then a little serious with Dyad Productions’ Dalloway on 11 and 12 April, an adaptation of Viriginia Woolf’s classic. There’s a free pre-show talk from ARU’s Dr Tory Young, principal lecturer in English literature on the Tuesday. On 16 April is The Best Thing, a story from the 60s performed by the UK’s leading full-mask theatre company, Vamos Theatre, and it’s especially exciting as it’s equally accessible to hearing and deaf audiences.
New kids on the Shakespearean block Merely Theatre perform two productions on 20 April, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Henry V. Things get poignant and surreal with Cell on 23 April, a collaboration between Smoking Apples and Dogfish Theatre featuring puppetry, physical theatre and an uplifting score. From 25 to 30 April there’s the Cambridge Drama Festival, which promises to be a theatrical extravaganza.
Wrapping things up is Girls With Balls on 4 May, a new play by Alison Dunne set in 1971. It’ll be performed by Off The Fence Theatre Company.
You can book tickets at the Box Office on 01223 352932 between 2pm and 5pm Monday to Friday, follow the Mumford on Twitter @ArtsARU or visit their website.
www.anglia.ac.uk/mumfordtheatre
