Pembroke Players

Fri 11 May @ 20.30 at Pembroke New Cellars

The Pembroke Players present a night of laughter and giggles in the warm embrace of the Pembroke New Cellars. Following in the proud tradition of providing reasons to skive out of the library, we present you with a perfect revision break. For a glorious hour and a half, we promise you that the harsh world of work will be a distant memory. Doors will open at 20:30, comedy will begin at 9, and we promise to be finished by 10:30. Also, there'll be nibbles. £4 for students, and half of our profits will be donated to charity. That makes it even more ethical.

Tue 13 - Sat 17 Mar @ 21.30 at Corpus Playroom

“It’s just a game...” Like notes trickling from a music box, this play's events unfold from a single centre: the rumpled bed in a sick-room. The Music Box weaves narrative threads together; two lovers hurtle through an epic tragic affair, and three fantastical siblings encounter a strange young man who challenges the reality of their dreams. The music box’s repetitive tune has haunting implications for the exploration of corrupted innocence, loneliness, and desire.

Tue 13 - Sat 17 Mar @ 21.30 at Pembroke New Cellars

Have you? No, neither have I. But he has. Yes, he has. He so has. Look at him. Having it. Phil Liebman and Jamie Mathieson, as seen at the Edinburgh Fringe, Footlights Smokers and the County Arms, present a brand spanking new sketch show like no other that takes the rulebook for student comedy and does such bad things to it that our mothers would be ashamed. Praise for the writers: Phil: ‘Delightful’ (The Tab), ‘Vigorous’ (New Current), ‘His essays aren’t perfect but there are no major issues.’ (Dr. Jonathan Birch) Jamie: ‘Marvellous’ (Varsity), ‘Lovely’ (The Tab), ‘The lateness of many of his essays have precluded me from writing detailed feedback on his work.’ (Dr. Isabel DiVanna)

Tue 13 - Sat 17 Mar @ 19.00 at Pembroke New Cellars

The French classical tragedy par excellence: passion, jealousy, revenge, politics and gallantry ending in bloodshed. Oreste loves Hermione who loves Pyrrhus who loves Andromaque, who is torn between her fidelity to her late husband Hector, killed by Pyrrhus’ father, and her attempt to save their son. Disappointed love turns into hatred as the frantic quadrangle dissolves. Each of the protagonists either kill, or die; the survivor descends into madness. Racine’s Andromaque, as transcendent as Shakespeare’s tragedies, blooms some of the most beautiful verses ever heard on stage. As every translation would betray this intimate union of poetry and drama, the text will be performed in French; but the bodies carried away by violence and desire will speak a language everybody can understand.

Tue 28 Feb - Sat 3 Mar @ 21.30 at Pembroke New Cellars

A stranger has come to the city of Thebes, claiming to be Dionysus, god of wine, and the women of the city have begun flocking to join him in his wild rites on the hillsides. Pentheus, the newly crowned king, thinks the man a charlatan and will do anything in his power to crush this new cult. But he is about to learn that gods - especially drunk ones - rarely take criticism well. This production will be a powerful, physically demanding interpretation of Euripides' masterpiece: the horrific majesty and sublime cruelty of the god of wine will be fully explored, and the audience will be immersed in a world of sex, alcohol and violence.