Congratulations to the winners of the 2023 Cambridge Festival of Drama! Whilst winning one of our trophies is a highlight for many, we just love the fact that there are still groups out there that are up for challenging themselves and making the Festival a celebration of local amateur theatre. Without the groups, there’d be …
Introducing Tristan Marshall, the adjudicator for this year’s Cambridge Festival of Drama! Hailing from a theatre family, Tristan spent his youth visiting festivals around the UK and Ireland. He began his acting career at the Questors Theatre in London in 2003, playing a number of lead roles, including Lord Byron in Brenton’s Bloody Poetry, Subtle …
Please note that this year we are changing our start time to 7:30pm, which means the evenings will not be as late as in previous years. We hope you appreciate this positive move. Thursday 14th September 2022 (7:30pm) Friday 15th September 2023 (7:30pm) Saturday 16th September 2023 (7:30pm) Followed by the AWARDS CEREMONY Each evening …
Due to circumstances beyond their control, Limitless Academy will no longer be able to take part in this years Festival. This is extremely disappointing, and has resulted in the Committee thinking long and hard about making sure the final night goes out with a bang as well as ensuring audiences get their monies worth. We’re …
This year we have a bumper Festival with no less than 10 plays being presented over the course of three days and four sessions: Thursday 15th September 2022 (7:45pm) WHITE LIES – BAWDS SWAN SONG – Huntingdon Drama Club CONVERSATIONS IN PAST TENSE – Beautiful Little Fools Friday 16th September 2022 (7:45pm) TABLE FOR TWO …
After three wonderful nights of theatre, we’d like to offer our congratulations to the award winners of the 2021 Festival. Thank you to Bob, our adjudicator, and our audiences for supporting us after such a long period away. The winners of the awards are listed below, but we think theatre is the real winner here …
We’re delighted to announce our free Saturday afternoon session at this year’s Festival of Drama: “A Workshop on Directing” with Bob Tomson. This is taking place on the 18th September at 2:30pm, and will last 60 minutes. Bob has been an actor, stage and screen writer, a college and university lecture in drama, and now …
Join us for a celebration of amateur drama – 7 short plays by drama groups from Cambridge and around, and this year from farther afield too! Everyone will be striving to present their best work, which our professional adjudicator will comment upon and judge which is the best overall dramatic achievement. Will you pick the …
Great news! With the recent news of the government roadmap designed to get us out of lockdown, the Festival committee met to discuss plans to bring back the Cambridge Festival of Drama. We’re really pleased to announce that the 2021 Festival will be held from 16th–18th September 2021 at the ADC Theatre, with adjudicator Bob …
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