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Helen Lyster

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CUMTS Welfare Rep 2024-5
CUADC Designers’ Rep 2025-6

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CAST 2026: King Lear – Lead Costume Designer

19:00, Tue 1st September – Thu 1st October 2026 at TBD

We are so excited to present CAST 2026, the 26th year of this tour to travel to America! We are looking to build a creative, dedicated and warm team to take to the US this summer :)

The Cambridge American Stage Tour (CAST), established under the patronage of Dame Judi Dench in 1998, is one of the major international theatre tours of the University of Cambridge. It aims to bring the work of Shakespeare to as wide an audience as possible in the eastern United States. Now in its 27th year, Cambridge University’s largest international tour show has been performing to packed houses and critical acclaim since 1998! Each September, some of Cambridge’s most talented actors, directors, designers and technicians travel across the Atlantic to bring a Shakespeare play to colleges, high schools and professional theatres on the East Coast.

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Helen Lyster is preparing for

  • Love's Labour's Lost – Princess of France

    14:00, Fri 19th – Sun 21st June 2026 at Cloister Court Queens' College

    LOVE’S LABOUR’S LOST

    ‘Vows are but breath,
    And breath a vapour is’ (V.III.65)

    Dr Samuel Johnson heralded Love’s Labour’s Lost as one of the most Shakespearean of Shakespeare plays. It is a witty comedy…

  • ROMEO AND JULIET – Associate Costume Designer

    13:00, Tue 23rd – Thu 25th June 2026 at Peterhouse Chapel

    'So smile the heavens upon this holy act'

    1834, Anne Lister and Ann Walker ‘took sacrament’ in Holy Trinity Church, an act enclosed in a backdrop of outward pressure and prejudice to their love.

    Romeo…

  • Quickening – Costume designer

    19:00, Tue 25th – Sat 29th August 2026 at Lion & Unicorn Theatre, Kentish Town

    Quickening is the narrative of three abortions - Lina and Josey find themselves in the same ward in 1972, a few years after the legalisation of abortion in the UK. In 2011, Lina’s daughter Darla faces…

  • Iolanthe @ The Minack – Costume Designer

    19:30, Mon 14th – Fri 18th September 2026 at The Minack Theatre

    In Iolanthe, fairies, lords, and love collide in a farcical battle of politics and passion. With sharp wit, catchy tunes, and plenty of surprises, this classic Gilbert and Sullivan operetta proves that…

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