| Year |
Dates |
Production |
Director |
Cast details |
Other details |
| 1907 |
11,12 Nov |
Dr. Faustus |
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J. Brooke as
Faustus; R. Brooke as Mephistopheles |
Opened 11th Nov
at ADC for 2 perfs; made handsome £20 profit; bare scenery but suffused
with 'spirit of peotry' |
| 1908 |
10,11 Jul |
Comus, by Milton |
Rupert Brooke |
R. Brooke also
Stage Manager |
Opened 10th Jul
at New Theatre for 2 perfs |
| 1909 |
19,20 Feb |
Epicoene, by
Milton |
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| 1909 |
19-21 Nov |
Two Gentlemen
Verona |
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| 1909 |
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The Silent Woman,
by R. Johnson |
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R. Brooke as
prologue |
Reginald Pole
as Producer |
| 1910 |
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Richard II |
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Reg Pole as King |
January |
| 1911 |
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Knight of the
Burning Pestle |
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| 1911 |
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Dr. Faustus |
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Reg Pole as Mephostophilus;
R.Brooke as chorus |
Opened Aug 17
for small audience of German Students |
| 1912 |
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| 1914 |
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The Alchemist |
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King's have programme |
| 1915 |
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| 1921 |
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Arden of Faversham |
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Rylands acting
as Alice. |
| 1922 |
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Troilus and Cressida |
Frank Birch |
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Transferred to
London's Everyman Theatre |
| 1923 |
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| 1924 |
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Duchess of Malfi |
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Rylands as duchess
(pre-women) |
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| 1926 |
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| 1933 |
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| 1934 |
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Antony &
Cleopatra |
George Rylands |
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Festival Theatre;
First with women?? |
| 1935 |
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| 1936 |
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Hamlet |
George Rylands |
Humphrey Whitbread
in lead; Rylands as Claudius |
In July of opening
Arts season |
| 1937 |
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| 1938 |
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King Lear |
George Rylands |
Richard David
in title role |
Set in a spanish
court as painted by Velazquez |
| 1939 |
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Macbeth |
George Rylands |
Ian Wallace as
Banquo |
Disasters during
run |
| 1940 |
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Troilus and Cressida |
George Rylands |
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| 1941 |
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Measure for Measure |
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| 1942 |
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Duchess of Malfi |
George Rylands |
Rylands as Ferdinand |
Webster; Peggy
Ashcroft |
| 1943 |
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Othello |
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Rylands in lead,
Beves as Iago |
Still anonymous
progs |
| 1944 |
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King Lear |
George Rylands |
Rylands in lead,
Beves as Gloucester |
3rd time since
1907 |
| 1945 |
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The Winter's
Tale |
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| 1946 |
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Antony &
Cleopatra |
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36th Marlowe
production; first with women??; Lent show |
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The Tempest |
George Rylands |
Rylands as Caliban |
Summer production |
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Faustus &
2 Gentlemen |
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To open Guildhall
at King's Lynn |
| 1947 |
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Bartholomew Fair |
Donald Beves |
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194?; by Ben
Johnson; lent |
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Macbeth |
George Rylands |
Gillian Webb
as Lady Mcb; Beves as McD; Stephen Joseph as Lennox |
First Cambridge
post-war summer festival |
| 1948 |
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Troilus and Cressida |
George Rylands |
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Lent |
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Measure for Measure
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George Rylands |
Rylands as Angelo |
Summer festival
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White Devil |
Donald Beves |
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Summer festival
- both later toured to Germany under auspices of British Council &
Foreign office (flown in during the Berlin Airlift!) |
| 1949 |
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Twelfth Night |
George Rylands |
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Summer festival |
| 1950 |
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All's Well |
Donald Beves |
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Summer festival |
| 1951 |
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Dr. Faustus &
2 Gentlemen |
George Rylands |
casts incl. John
Barton, Peter Hall |
All 3 part of
Festival of Britain celebrations (Camb. was a regional centre of the festival);
Malvern festival? |
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2 Gentlemen of
Verona |
John Barton |
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The Enchanted
Island |
Donald Beves |
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Adaptation of
Tempest by Dryden |
| 1952 |
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King Lear |
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Lent ?1953 |
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Julius Caesar |
John Barton |
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Elizabethan pronunciation |
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Browning version;
St. Patrick's day; The Family reunion |
John Barton |
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Summer; with
the ADC; last summer festival |
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Romeo and Juliet |
John Barton and
GR |
John Barton as
Mercutio; Peter Hall as Tybalt |
Summer; 50th
Marlowe prod; transferred to London (seen by Churchill) and to Bournemouth
for 3 wks |
| 1953 |
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| 1958 |
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Edward II |
Tony Robertson |
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Derek Jacobi
in it; broadcast by BBC |
| 1959 |
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Henry IV parts
I&II |
John Barton |
Ian McK as Justice
Shallow; Jacobi as Prince Hal; Clive Swift as Falstaff |
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| 1960 |
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Dr. Faustus |
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Nunn & McK;
Margaret Drabble as Imogen |
In open air theatre
in Bankside Gdns, Stratford. |
| 1961 |
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| 1962 |
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Macbeth |
Trevor Nunn |
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Filled Arts;
transferred to Newcastle Empire Theatre (200 seater, opened ~1880, since
demolished) |
| 1963 |
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| 1968 |
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Hamlet |
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Brett Usher in
lead |
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| 1977 |
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Bartholomew Fair |
Griff Rhys Jones |
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| 1988 |
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Cyrano de Bergerac |
Sam Mendes |
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Starred Tom Hollander |
| 1989 |
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| 1991 |
12 - 16 March |
Dr. Faustus |
Clare Venables |
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| 1992 |
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| 1993 |
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Tamburlaine the
Great |
Tim Supple |
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Last before Arts
closed for refurbishment |
| 1994 |
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Frankenstein |
Jonathon Lloyd
with help of Theatre de Complicite's Annabel Arden |
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Performed in
Cambridge Museum of Technology |
| 1995 |
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Lady
of Pleasure |
Gordon Anderson |
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Performed in
Festival Theatre |
| 1995 |
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Another Bloody
Gala |
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Corn Exchange;
fundraising for Arts refurbishment appeal |
| 1996 |
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Women Beware
Women |
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Opened Emmanuel
Queens' Building |
| 1996 |
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Rylands' Fellowship
Appeal |
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Theatre Royal
Haymarket; King's College Appeal for Rylands' Fellowship |
| 1997 |
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Peribanez |
Dominic Dromgoole
& Angus Jackson |
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First in New
Arts |
| 1998 |
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Electra |
Laurie Sansom |
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New Translation |
| 1999 |
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Serious
Money |
Richard Bridge |
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Caryl Churchill |
| 1999 |
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Losing Voices |
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Christ's College
New Court Theatre |
| 2000 |
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Moby
Dick Rehearsed |
David Cottis |
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Orson Welles |
| 2000 |
November |
August |
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Other Prize
winner |
| 2001 |
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Romeo
and Juliet |
Simon Godwin |
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| 2001 |
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King
John |
Adam Cohen |
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ADC Theatre
'Camfest' |
| 2002 |
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Macbeth |
Ben Naylor |
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| 2002 |
November |
Wanting
to Laugh Best |
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ADC Theatre |
| 2002 |
November |
Festival |
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Playroom |
| 2003 |
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The
Taming of the Shrew |
Marco Ghelardi |
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| 2003 |
November |
The
Wasps |
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Emmanuel Queens'
Building |
| 2004 |
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Twelfth
Night |
Tom Wright |
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| 2004 |
June |
The Golden Ass |
Abigail Rokison |
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Sidney Sussex
Gardens |
| 2004 |
November |
Rostov's House |
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ADC Theatre
(first Marlowe show after ADC redevelopment) |
| 2005 |
February |
The Comedy of
Errors |
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Arts Theatre |
