Michaelmas 2025
Want to see some top quality student comedy? Here's what we have programmed for this term...
All tickets to be bought from the ADC website
23:00, Tue 14th October 2025 at ADC Theatre
21:30, Tue 28th October 2025 at Corpus Playroom
21:30, Tue 4th November 2025 at Corpus Playroom
23:00, Tue 18th November 2025 at ADC Theatre
23:00, Fri 28th November 2025 at ADC Theatre
Expect laughs, laughs, and more laughs...
Footlights bring you the funniest songs, sketches, monologues and stand up in an evening of non-stop, back-to-back fun-filled hilarity. The material is always original and always varied. It can be soft and silly; rude and spikey; wordy and nerdy or a little surreal - whatever the style, it's always "uproariously funny" (Varsity)
23:00, Wed 8th – Sat 11th October 2025 at ADC Theatre
'The most renowned sketch troupe of them all' (Independent) embark on their annual tour once again! The Cambridge Footlights are back with five of Cambridge's best student comedians putting on a brand-new show featuring their funniest sketches! 'The Cambridge Footlights are at the top of their game and that is on display throughout the entirety of the show' **** (BroadwayWorld.com, Footlights International Tour 2023). In case you had any doubt, Broadway Baby can confirm it's pretty 'special to witness such an established organisation at work' (Footlights International Tour 2024).
19:45, Wed 26th November – Sat 6th December 2025 at ADC Theatre
Far far away, in a small cottage named Chequers, Jack Beanstalk and his mum live a humble life where money is tight. To make ends meet, Jack sells his beloved cow Daisy in Bridgetown in exchange for five ‘magic’ beans from the renowned Evil Bean Merchant. His mother is devastated at the trade-off, but knows all about mistakes, having bean there done that. But fear not! Jack is distracted from this woe after meeting the love of his life, Jill, who will follow him to the ends of the earth…
… and indeed up a beanstalk. Join Jack and Jill as they navigate the high-altitude world of an insecure Giant, Claudia Winkleman, a golden goose and Guinness the Harp and follow them around the long winding corridors of Castle Mound. Wait why is the Evil Bean Merchant here, again?
Come and watch this year’s unmissable festive delight featuring love, adventure and... beans: the CUADC/Footlights Pantomime 2025: Jack and the Beanstalk!
21:30, Wed 15th – Sat 18th October 2025 at Corpus Playroom
Tom & Tompkinson is a two-hander long form improvised show from Tom Sweeney and Isaac Tompkinson in Week 1 of Michaelmas (15th - 18th October) at the Corpus Playroom. Each night we talk to the audience, find out what’s on their mind, and then make an hour-long show based entirely on the interactions that we’ve shared. Cambridge has a fantastic improv scene but the genre of two-hander improvised shows is so far unexplored. By paring down the cast and focusing on the relationship between audience and improvisers we hope to bring an engaging, surprising, and different show to the Corpus stage.
21:30, Tue 21st – Wed 22nd October 2025 at Corpus Playroom
Footlight Lorna Beal has never gotten over anything ever. But why would she? She's perfectly happy the way she is. Mostly. Sometimes. Join her for her debut hour of side-splitting stand-up where she'll unpack nostalgia, girlhood and maybe some emotional baggage. Maybe.
23:00, Fri 24th October 2025 at ADC Theatre
The New-York Times Bestselling ‘Author’ returns with a reading of their self-help book dealing with anger management and meat. Unfortunately, this book is horrible and written terribly; most of the anecdotes are random, incongruous and barely legal. On tour, the speaker is inaudible, raucous and only on stage for half of the allotted time. It’s still worth reading and / or watching as an exercise in how to rapidly destroy your career. RRP UK £20, CAN $45, US $32. Subject to shifting exchange rates in this turbulent time.
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Join Footlight Martha Alexander for their debut stand-up hour at the ADC Theatre. It will be fine.
21:30, Thu 4th December 2025 at Corpus Playroom
Born on Christmas Day and raised in the shadow of Jesus and excessive tinsel, Sophie Petrie brings you her debut hour of festive stand-up.
A Christmas Miracle is a fast, funny, and emotionally chaotic one-hour stand-up show that unwraps the weirdness of holiday expectations and the lifelong curse of sharing your birthday with Jesus.
From nativity play disasters to birthday presents wrapped in re-used Santa paper, this is a show for anyone who’s ever felt out of place during “the most wonderful time of the year.”
Looking for a comedy show with festive dysfunction, emotional honesty, and a sprinkle of existential dread? Look no further.
One night only at the Corpus Playroom.
21:30, Wed 29th October – Sat 1st November 2025 at Corpus Playroom
Join sketch comedy group Lukewarm Goo (Footlights James Allen, Dom Andrew, and Will Boyce) for a gooey sketch show. Following the success of their debut show (no one came to review it so you will just have to take our word that it was a success. Will's dad seemed to enjoy it at any rate) the guys are back with new sketches of largely the same quality. As they make their way to the zoo for a day out at the zoo, a funny thing happens to them (on their way to the zoo). Expect surreal sketches, goo, wacky characters, romance, action, singing, heartfelt confessions, and goo.