up to email updates. They wished to go wider than the University Amateur Dramatic Club (ADC), founded in 1855, with its membership drawn largely from Trinity College, and its theatre seating only 100. try again, the name must be unique, Please CB2 3PJ, Box Office: 01223 503333boxoffice@cambridgeartstheatre.com, © Cambridge Arts Theatre is managed by The Cambridge Arts Theatre Trust Ltd. The 1981 revue, featuring Emma Thompson, Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry, Tony Slattery, Penny Dwyer and Paul Shearer,[9] won the inaugural Perrier Award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and spawned Fry and Laurie, the first in a long line of popular and successful double acts formed at the club including Armstrong and Miller and Mitchell and Webb. [3] There had been women before that time who had been allowed to join in, including Eleanor Bron in the late 1950s, but Greer was the first to be billed as a full member. alumni including Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Trevor Nunn and Peter Shaffer. ', The best in film, music, TV & radio straight to your inbox, Register with your social account or click here to log in. 1069912.Registered Office: 6 St Edward’s Passage, Cambridge CB2 3PJ VAT Registration No. Each term applications will open to become a member of the Footlights, with applications being sent to secretary@cambridgefootlights.org , and containing info on your comedy experience to date, as well as how you might use your Footlights membership to positively impact comedy in Cambridge. The Cambridge Footlights: First steps in comedy Show all 12 I joined the Footlights pretty much by accident. A sketch that featured a death from a stabbing was uncomfortable to watch and given the current crisis with knife crime perhaps it should be rethought. But after playing the Moor’s hapless lieutenant with what I felt to be admirable gravitas night after night to fits of giggles and occasional gales of laughter, I began to wonder whether my skills lay elsewhere.I went with the flow, and convinced some of my fellow cast members to help me write a spoof Shakespeare play that we played deliberately for laughs. 1069912.Registered Office: 6 St Edward’s Passage, Cambridge CB2 3PJ VAT Registration No. In a masterstroke of shameless self-promotion I played Norman, which is to say I pretty much reprised my part in Othello, only now with the legitimate excuse that the audience were meant to be laughing. to your comment. Independent Premium Comments can be posted by members of our membership scheme, Independent Premium. In 1980, she co-directed and performed in 'Woman's Hour', Cambridge's first all-female revue. Sunday 12 & Sunday 19 Mar, 7.45pm: £13/£18/£23* 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. footlights And some might mistrust a libretto that is too 'literary' or too complicated, for metaphysical and other subtleties are not easily projected across the footlights. Sketches that worked well included two women greeting each other using what seemed like every football goal celebration seen on Match of the Day; an interesting take on the #MeToo movement (#WomenPooToo), and a barbershop quartet connection to marital problems.
Following the sell-out success of 2018, Cambridge Footlights are back by popular demand with two nights of hilarious new comedy!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. try again, the name must be unique, Show{{#moreThan3_total}} {{value_total}} {{/moreThan3_total}} comments, You may not agree with our views, or other users’, but please respond to them respectfully, Swearing, personal abuse, racism, sexism, homophobia and other discriminatory or inciteful But at the start of the 20th century, it began to imitate the hit London shows of the day and the Footlights revue was born. From the Cambridge English Corpus Footlights would destroy a carnival as the absence of footlights … Standout for me were the ‘audiobook recording’ that involved the audience and the Headmaster story, though both could have benefitted from being a few minutes shorter. Cambridge Arts Theatre Create a commenting name to join the debate. Independent Premium. They have no respect for their past; nor should they, because their past is nearly always ignominious.
Every fortnight, there would be open auditions for a try-out night, or Smoker, as it was called, and there would be endless votes, auditions and audience appraisals to determine which performers and sketches then made it into the end-of-term Revue. The first of these featured The Bristol Revunions and The Durham Revue joining their Cambridge hosts for a fun-filled evening.
6 St Edward's Passage I do remember we devoured it backstage. I joined the Footlights pretty much by accident. 'active' : ''"> Well, I say there was the name; actually, that had gone, too. Registered in England No. Laurie became president of Footlights in 1981. In the real world, it turned out, everyone had it in for Footlights. Norman Thane of Spain ran for a week at the main student theatre, the ADC. There was no bar in the Club Room as in days of yore, when Peter Cook would spend long evenings swilling mint juleps and conversing with an imaginary bee. So one bleak, wind-driven afternoon in October, I set off to meet my destiny.Initially it was a disappointment.
Community Find your bookmarks in your Independent Premium section, under my profile, There are no comments yet - be the first to add your thoughts, There are no Independent Premium comments yet - be the first to add your thoughts, The Cambridge Footlights: First steps in comedy, Email already exists. Are you sure you want to submit this vote? All that was left, it seemed, was the name. Want an ad-free experience?Subscribe to Independent Premium. Enter your email to follow new comments on this article. They are meant to be dire. This was apparently the group’s first performance together and whilst cleverly written their performance did seem under rehearsed. Early booking is highly recommended! Long may they continue to be so. 229 1368 04, Pre-order a delicious deli box from celebrated local café, Aromi, to enjoy before the show! Please For me, that meant serious drama. For information about individual Footlights revues, see Cambridge Footlights Revue. continue to respect all commenters and create constructive debates. Oldest first, -1) ? She joined in October 1964 on the same day as Clive James and Russell Davies. The 1963 revue then followed in the footsteps of Beyond the Fringe, appearing in Edinburgh and London's West End, before travelling to New Zealand and the United States, where it made appearances on Broadway and The Ed Sullivan Show and received a full-page review in Time. , and containing info on your comedy experience to date, as well as how you might use your Footlights membership to positively impact comedy in Cambridge. Following the sell-out success of 2018, Cambridge Footlights are back by
At the ADC, the real breeding ground for new talent is the fortnightly Footlights Smokers.
is highly recommended! “Durham Revue … brought a magnificent style and energy to the stage with an act that was intelligent, funny and well executed”. It consisted of a scathing treatise on how Footlights today weren’t a patch on their former glory, and singled out two cast members for personal abuse: Chapman and Cleese. If you are interested in getting involved in Cambridge comedy, and are a student at either Cambridge or Anglia Ruskin, then sign up to the Footlights Mailing List, where every week you will receive information on upcoming comedy performances as well as auditions, open-mics, workshops, and other comedy events.
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