- November 2015
Cinderella with less pumpkin, more picketing? The classic tale of Ali Baba told with one more X chromosome? The greed, ignorance and vanity of The Red Shoes translated into dance? They’re all destinations on the journey and you are invited.
Yearwalk brings to life the stories you thought you knew in a setting you could only dream of. Traditional folklore and fables are reinvigorated with music and dance, puppetry and shadows, magic and spectacle. The often vague and mysterious nature of story-telling is explored as ancient stories from around the world are brought to stage after being passed down the generations. The atmosphere will entrance you as we embrace the history and mystery of different cultures…
- October 2015
- August 2015
- June 2015
- February 2015
On the eve of the 2015 General Election, UKIP is in crisis. A power struggle between Nigel Farage and his mutinous Deputy, Paul Nuttall, threatens the very existence of the party, with Nigel's political career, and marriage, on the line following a series of shocking allegations about the nationality of his beloved wife.
Meanwhile, an undercover journalist sent to expose UKIP's darkest secrets finds himself torn between two worlds as he is drawn ever closer into the twisted heart of the organisation.
No political figure or party will emerge unscathed as the characters sing and dance their way towards the final showdown. The Big Debate is looming, and the future of the country is up for grabs.
- February 2015
'The Lark' by Jean Anouilh (translated by Christopher Fry), based on the story of Joan of Arc.
The play is set during her trial, and short episodes from her life and journey are played out chronologically. Joan of Arc manipulates, flatters and commands her way from father, to lord, to king, to battle but ultimately submits herself to her execution. It is an intense and earnest play, often quieting and sometimes vicious, but not without moments of dark humour. Diverse, high energy characters (ranging from perverted priests, abusive fathers, battling Queens and mistresses, and petulant boy-kings), operate in conjunction with the fast pace of an episodic structure to create variety and intoxicating escalation of events.
- December 2014
This year, GADS are bringing you the whimsically wonderful tale of Jack and the Beanstalk for your Christmas pantomime! Handsome Fresher Jack is longing to take the girl of his dreams, Jill, to Selwyn Snow Ball. However, there is one problem - as Matilda, Jack's best friend and college wife points out, our dear Jack has spent all his student finance already! How will Jack make the money to take Jill to the Ball? And with the troublesome ugly sisters, Stacey and Samantha, seeming set on keeping Jack and Jill apart, will the fairytale couple ever come together at all? With the help of a magic beanstalk and a Good Fairy, anything is possible!
- November 2014
Come along to see the brand new sketch show, created by Girtonians for you. Yes, YOU! There'll be laughs, bad puns, Russian accents, time machines, basically anything you could ever want from an evening.
- October 2014
- June 2014
A comedic tale of calamitous shipwreck, errant butlers and wayward peers of the realm.
- June 2014
- May 2014
“The next stop is coming up. I am going to get up and I am going to get off. And you are not going to stop me.”
Clive’s trip home on the night bus takes a disturbing turn when nineteen year old May sits down next to him. She calls him a pervert. He misses his stop. As they travel together to the end of the route, Clive and May learn more about each other than they had bargained for. Round and Round, a new play by Hannah Greenstreet, tests whether a chance encounter can lead to a real connection, or whether it can lead to something worse.
This rehearsed reading is part of the Papercuts series.
- March 2014
“The one advantage of playing with fire, Lady Caroline, is that one never gets even singed. It is the people who don't know how to play with it who get burned up.”
The English upper classes gather at Lady Hunstanton’s country house and over the next twenty-four hours the lives of the characters are irrevocably changed by revelations of seduction and scandal. The 1893 play explores the double standards between men and women and showcases Wilde’s sharp witticisms and particular brand of dark humour at its very best.
- February 2014
- November 2013
Description As Michaelmas Term draws to a close, one cannot go home for the holidays without witnessing a quintessential Girton tradition...
The GADS Michaelmas Panto of course!!
Get ready for a night of masquerade madness, southern secretaries, overbearing college parents, and a magical Christmas Ent. Will Ella get to go to the Christmas Ent and meet her handsome prince, or will her evil supervisor stop her in her tracks? Maybe with the help of the Mistress Fairy Godmother, everything will fall into place?
- November 2013
The creepy butler; an English Colonel with the prerequisite stiff upper lip; a shady French art dealer and his moll; the bumbling police inspector and a well-meaning local sleuth who seems to attract murder wherever she goes - they're all here, and all caught up in the hilarious antics which follow the mysterious death of the house's owner. It soon becomes clear that the murderer isn't finished yet, but will the murderer be unmasked before everyone else has met their doom?
'Murdered to Death' is a hilarious spoof of the best of Agatha Christie traditions, set in a country manor house in the 1930s and to be performed in Girton's beautiful Stanley Library.
- June 2013
Come up to Girton and 'loosen they bursting udder' with GADS this May Week, as we perform E.P. Coleridge's comic translation of this classical tale, with nothing but some sheets of cardboard and a marker pen!
Tickets £2 on the door.
- November 2012
"If You Please" is a French Dada-Surrealist play and is completely different from any play you will have previously acted in or come across. Written by Breton and Soupault, two titans of the surrealist movement, and first performed in 1920, If You Please takes hackneyed and clichéd plots and transforms them into thrilling and marvellous absurdity. It is the ADC week 7 late show and has a large cast with a good mix of male and female characters. This play promises to be an entertaining but testing project for everyone from beginners to the most experienced actors.
- June 2009
In a sleepy town, the intricate and personal stories of Santiago Nasar,
Angela and Bayardo unfold - in arms length of the audience. Angela is
returned to her family home the night of her wedding to Bayardo San Roman,
when he discovers that she is not a virgin. Her brother is forced by the
code of honour to kill the violator. Santiago Nasar wakes up the next morning,
unaware of his fate. Very soon, the whole town learns of the murderous plot
against him.
The Judith E. Wilson Studio will be transformed into a small town, thrusting
the audience and the actors into the same dramatic space. The audience will
be granted a mask of invisibility, allowing them to wander around the studio
and intimately observe the characters, piecing the plot together without being
seen.
- March 2009
- June 2008
- March 2008
'In this life, one thing counts, in the bank, large amounts.'
Girton Amatuer Dramatics Society Presents 'Oliver', Lionel Bart's hit musical. The show has already been hyped as the highlight of the term, and promises to be an unforgettable experience for all involved.
- June 2007
- March 2006
So many hopes, so many fears, and all those oh so nears. Join the ecstacy and agony of being in love and following England in World Cups. July 4th 1990, the World Cup semi-final, England vs West Germany. In Majorca, Bill and Monica are on holiday attempting to rekindle their troubled marriage. Monica dreams of an affair with Gary Lineker, but, in fact, she is seeing Bill's friend, travel writer Dan Hudson. Things get spicy when Dan unexpectedly arrives at their hotel, and, together, in the company of Bill's colleague Ian and German tourist rep, Birgetta, they settle down to watch the game on TV... Through 90 tense minutes, excruciating extra-time and the inevitable penalty shoot-out, the drama on the football field is matched by the drama in the hotel room.
- March 2003
