Comedy

Check out the Footlights Presents: S.C.O.F.F.!: The Comeback Tour (Wed 4 - Sat 7 ADC), it has an inventive back story: after ten years the big-cheese sketch troupe S.C.O.F.F.! are back to kick off a come-back comedy tour around the country, only one of their members Fiona has made it big  and won’t be joining the rest. This background sets the narrative drive for a very entertaining night. Don’t miss the end of Awkward Conversations with Animals I’ve F*cked  (Tue 3 – Sat 7 Corpus Playroom), Varsity has given its run four stars claiming the comedic aspects of this tragicomedy are the highlights of this controversial play. Expect quite literally very awkward conversations with animals that Chris Born has had one-night stands with…

Do you like Paris? Then maybe L’escargot (Tue 10 - Wed 11, Corpus Playroom) is the show for you. A management consultant is stranded at Charles de Gaulle airport and with the company of a scout leader begins a tour of Parisian highlights from the Louvre to the city streets themselves. Don’t miss one night of six double acts from the people that brought you everything from the Footlights Pantomime: The Emperor’s New Clothes to Booby and Pelican. The Double (Tue 10, ADC) is surely going to be this weeks one night highlight.

Drama

The Marlowe Society’s production of Henry V (Wed 4 – Sat 7, Arts Theatre) finishes its run this week. Tickets are more expensive than your usual student theatre fare but the productions great set pieces make this one worth attending. Meanwhile Pravda (Tue 10 – Sat 14, ADC) looks like a main show to watch. The cast is absolutely enormous and the play itself raises questions regarding the morality of journalism.

Also see the Corpus Playroom host Albert Camus’s great play Les Justes (Tue 10 - Sat 14, Corpus Playroom), it relates the story of a group of terrorists determined to bring freedom with the blast of a bomb.

Workshops & Events

Head out to see Hatch (Mon 9, Corpus Playroom) and Papercuts (Fri 6, ADC) to watch rehearsed readings of new student writing. Hatch will provide a post-show discussion for the audience, performers etc. to pick apart the evening’s work. Papercuts will be hosting The Quick and The Damned a new play by Guy Clark and Tom Stuchfield. This Sunday the popular spoken word event Speakeasy (Sun 8, ADC) will continue its run. Go along if you fancy a drink and an excuse to hear/perform poetry. ARU’s Mumford Theatre will be hosting a workshop (Sat 7, 2pm) for spoken word enthusiasts ahead of its show Mouthy Poets on Tour (Sat 7, Mumford Theatre) at 7.30pm featuring a guest performance by poet Hollie McNish. This really looks like something not to miss!

Film

It’s another quiet week for the silver screen. So if you haven’t seen it already then catch Inherent Vice and the ‘style to burn’ of Whiplash, which was reviewed by Jackson Caines for Varsity earlier this week.

Exhibitions

If you haven’t been already then take the opportunity to catch an introduction to the Fitzwilliam and its collections (Tue 10, 2.30 - 3.30). Current exhibitions include the new Modern Heroism, which looks at printmaking and the legacy of Napoleon Bonaparte and marks the 200th anniversary of his defeat at Waterloo. Its free to access and a great way to pass some time outside of your degree.