Madeleine Wood

1 day ago | thetab.com | Madeleine Wood

William Lloyd’s The 67s is one part historical research project and one part exercise in humanity 5 seconds ago “All I know is that it’s a great big war and all the boys keep going into it”It is 4:30 am Easter Monday 1917, and we are underground. We join three Canadian soldiers, Grange, Goodman and Cavalier, as they count down the minutes until they must pick up their rifles and go over the top. William Lloyd‘s The 67s is one part historical research project and one part exercise in humanity.

1 month ago | thetab.com | Madeleine Wood

The hubris of academia comes to Cambridge in a timely production of Dr Faustus. 5 seconds ago ‘Had I as many souls as there be stars, I’d give them all for Mephistopheles’ Doctor Faustus, directed by Toby Trusted, is showing Tue 6th – Sat 10th May in the ADC Theatre. This production picks up a notorious tale of ambition, folly and satanic persuasion.

1 month ago | varsity.co.uk | Madeleine Wood

This spring, Emma’s June Event lost out due to lower than anticipated external sales. Then, Sidney’s Midsummer May Week Event was quietly felled late in the day, leaving Trinity Hall’s June Event clinging on precariously. Robinson had long swapped out their May Ball for a ‘mega-bop’. With intercollegiate deals appealing to Hill colleges still not enough to meet external sales targets, committees cut their losses and defer to benevolent larger scale balls offering discount tickets to those affected.

1 month ago | thetab.com | Madeleine Wood

“The boy’s so nice he came out twice” 5 seconds ago The Cambridge University Amateur Dramatic Club’s production of Everyone’s Talking About Jamie is warm, crackling and terse for all 165 minutes of its runtime. We meet Jamie New, a vivacious and energetic Mathew Weatherhead, who wants simply to be a drag queen. The problem? He is 16 in Sheffield. We follow Jamie and his charming found family through the pains of stigma and euphoric highs of self-expression.

2 months ago | thetab.com | Madeleine Wood

As the anguish and treason unfolds, members of this doomed royal unit hang up their coats and roll up their sleeves 5 seconds ago “I never doubted for an instant that you would have me put to death”. The Pembroke Players’ Antigone (Jean Anouilh trans. Lewis Galantiere) begins by telling us exactly how it will end.