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September 2019
Literature Cambridge Study Days at Stapleford Granary
Study Day on The Waves, Saturday 21 September 2019, 11.00 am to 5.00 pm. Literature Cambridge presents an intensive day of lectures and a seminar on Virginia Woolf's lyrical novel of 1931, with leading scholars Alison Hennegan, Claire Nicholson and Trudi Tate. £90.00/£80.00 students. * An Introduction to Reading Poetry, Saturday 19 October 2019, 2.00 pm to 5.30 pm. Do you love poetry but sometimes find it difficult to understand? Do you want to get more out of reading poetry?…
Find out more »January 2020
Chesterton Amateur Dramatic Society
Do you like acting? Are you looking to have fun, make friends and learn new skills to hone your craft, then Chesterton Amateur dramatic society is the place for you. Join them every Tuesday from 7:30 pm at St George's Church Hall on Chesterfield Road Cambridge. Just turn up on the night. For more info e-mail neilhopkin@live.co.uk
Find out more »Endelion String Quartet Final Season
The Endellion String Quartet is performing its 41st and final season. It has been ‘Quartet in Residence’ for 27 years at the University of Cambridge. Between 29 January and 20 May 2020 the Quartet will be continuing its Beethoven Cycle with four concerts – details below: Wednesday 29 January 2020 - String Quartet in B flat Op.18 No.6/ String Quartet in F Op.135/ String Quartet in E flat Op.74 (‘Harp’). Wednesday 26 February 2020 - String Quartet in F minor…
Find out more »February 2020
The Woman in Black
Join the millions of theatre goers worldwide who have experienced ‘the most brilliantly effective spine-chiller you will ever encounter’ (Daily Telegraph). Continuing its record-breaking run at the Fortune Theatre in London’s West End, The Woman in Black now embarks on a major UK tour! Susan Hill’s acclaimed ghost story comes dramatically alive in Stephen Mallatratt’s ingenious stage adaption. This gripping production, directed by Robin Herford, is a brilliantly successful study in atmosphere, illusion and controlled horror. A lawyer, obsessed with…
Find out more »The Waves by Virginia Woolf
Bernard, Neville, Louis, Jinny, Rhoda and Susan are childhood friends. Bound by their mutual love and hate, their lives remain interwoven from their shared school days and despite their divergent paths through adulthood. The Waves follows these six individual but irrevocably connected souls as they navigate their various experiences, their communal griefs, and their relationships to one another and the world around them. Come and see the novel that Virginia Woolf called her 'play-poem' brought to the Cambridge stage for…
Find out more »Heffers Book Evening – Gill Hornby
In some dusty corner of the sprawling vicarage at Kintbury, there is a cache of family letters which hold secrets that Cassandra Austen is desperate should not be revealed. Should she act to protect her sister Jane's reputation? Or leave the contents of the letters to go unguarded into posterity? Fans of Jane Austen will delight in Gill Hornby's new book Miss Austen. Based on a literary mystery that has long puzzled biographers and academics, it's a wonderfully original and…
Find out more »Kiefer Sutherland at The Cambridge Junction
Kiefer Sutherland has been a professional actor for over thirty years, starring in movies like ‘Stand By Me’, ‘The Lost Boys’, ‘Young Guns’, Flatliners’, ‘A Few Good Men’, ‘A Time to Kill’, ‘Dark City’, ‘Melancholia’ and most recently, a western called ‘Forsaken,’ as well as the TV series ‘24.’ But unknown to many during the course of his career, he has taken on other vocations with the same kind of dedication and commitment. The first one, beginning around 1992, was…
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