15K likes. Bringing these big names together in the same space clearly invites competition, but thankfully the evening didn’t get bogged down in too many Boat Race, league table or University Challenge-related gags. In previous years it also housed performances by Footlights, the Cambridge University Gilbert & Sullivan Society and the Cambridge University Musical Theatre Society. The whole of the apparatus is controlled by a modern stage lighting switchboard, unique in design. Footlights at the Arts Theatre runs until tomorrow. The company's Arts Council of Great Britain grant was dependent on this. The Cambridge Arts Theatre was home to the Cambridge Theatre Company (established in 1969), which became one of the most respected and influential touring companies in the UK. Do you agree? In 2013 the front of house and bar facilities were remodelled and an extra entrance created. Formed as a sister company to Toby Robertson's Prospect Theatre Company and Ian McKellen's Actors' Company (presented as part of CTC),[7] the Cambridge Theatre Company enjoyed enormous loyalty in its home town, and many excellent emerging actors were featured in its wide repertoire. However, for fear of betraying the home team, the performance didn’t seem to quite match up to the technical flair shown by Oxford. Any kind of stage play or revue can be presented. Its annual Christmas pantomime is an established tradition in the city. For example, the 1974 six-play season featured Zoë Wanamaker, Oliver Ford Davies, Roger Rees and Ian Charleson. It is portable, and can be removed when the apron front stage used. Altogether, this is one of the best and most efficiently equipped theatres in the country. A complete movable flat canvas cyclorama is being installed, and this is illuminated by the Strand Electric three-colour process—at the top, by fourteen 1,000-watt Cyclorama Lanterns, which give a beam angle of 105 degrees, and at the bottom by the Cyclorama Ground Row, which has been let into a permanent pit below the stage level, for horizon lighting. Cambridge Arts Theatre is a 666-seat theatre on Peas Hill and St Edward's Passage in central Cambridge, England. It attracts some of the highest-quality touring productions in the country, as well as many shows direct from, or prior to, seasons in the West End. As a consequence, Durham’s sketch involving Tutankhamun and a viral Facebook message, which I thought was one of their strongest, went clean over the heads of several surrounding pensioners who are clearly less well-acquainted with social media. Cambridge 105 Radio is not responsible for the content of external websites. Artists to have appeared here include Ian McKellen (in a Marlowe Society production of Cymbeline), Derek Jacobi, and, more recently Susan Hampshire, Nigel Havers, Simon Callow, and Warren Mitchell. Some of their content was impressive – the short sketches in particular were consistently on point – yet the lacklustre characterisation in many sketches left the audience less than enthused. Three titans of university comedy – the Durham Revue, the Oxford Revue, and our very own Cambridge Footlights – came together for an excellent evening of genius and silliness. However, this doesn’t always translate to all age groups. Cambridge Footlights are the world-famous comedy troupe who first aired the talents of some of the foremost British comedians and actors of this century. He commissioned plays from Frederic Raphael (After the Greek) and Royce Ryton (The Unvarnished Truth with Tim Brooke Taylor and Graeme Garden), and his production of Songbook, a spoof musical by Julian More and Monty Norman, transferred to London in 1978. The two battens are of magazine type, the first being divided into sections with Strand’s electric 1,000- watt spot lanterns fitted between the sections. The usual system of signals, stage floods, wing floods, perch arc lamps, etc., have also been installed. Theatre. Cambridge Footlights at the Arts Theatre. Walking into the space of the Arts Theatre always makes a welcome break from the student-infused world of the ADC and Corpus Playroom. based on the ill-fated West End musical Bar Mitzvah Boy, itself based on the smash hit 1976 television play of the same name in which Lynn and Lipman had featured. Betty Hardy and Wilfrid Grantham as Mrs. Linden and Nils Krogstad were outstanding for consistent good work, and the smaller parts were capably sustained. When only £2,300 was raised by subscription of the town, Dr Keynes underwrote the rest himself. Founded in 1880, this university drama society boasts an impressive alumni including Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Trevor Nunn and Peter Shaffer.

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