19:45, Tue 9th – Sat 13th October 2012 at ADC Theatre
Michaelmas Week 1
A day at the fair? Well golly-gosh, what possible reason could there be not to?
Oh my poor, naïve companions! Little do you know what awaits you there, for there is no fair like Bartholomew Fair…
John Littlewit and his motley crew of guls and fools are ready to run riot. Plotting to win the hand of Dame Purecraft, they embark on a course of mayhem that will know no bounds. Justice Overdo is determined to stop them, but who will prevail in this carnival of chaos and disguise?
Ben Jonson's timeless sitcom is utterly reinvigorated in this hilarious, rip-roaring production. Directed by the president of the Cambridge Footlights, and filled to the brim with farce, laughs, music, dance, mistaken identities and puerile puns, once you've arrived you'll never want to leave.
'Tis in fashion to go to the Fair', but who knows what one may encounter...