Cambridge Arts Theatre announces summer 2021 reopening season

Cambridge Arts Theatre has announced its reopening season from June 2021.

David Mamet’s controversial drama Oleanna opens the season from 8-12 June, followed by Susan Hill’s spine-chilling gothic ghost story The Woman in Black from 17-26 June. Acclaimed stage and screen actor Ralph Fiennes will star and direct a brand new stage adaptation of T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets from 28 June-10 July, succeeded by Michael Frayn’s multi award-winning Copenhagen from 12-17 July.

Oliver Ford Davies and Stephen Boxer star in the coruscating new political drama A Splinter of Ice from 20-24 July, then family audiences can join an adventurous young girl and her seafaring father as they reimagine the story of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s much-loved picture book The  Snail and the Whale from 28 July – 1 August. Willy Russell’s legendary musical Blood Brothers will run from 3-7 August, before Mischief Theatre return with Magic Goes Wrong from 10-21 August.

Prepare for the horrible history of Britain with the nasty bits left in with Barmy Britain from 24-28 August, with TV stars Julian Clary and Matthew Kelly joining forces in Ronald Harwood’s affectionate and hilarious portrait of backstage life in The Dresser from 12-16 October. Mischief Theatre are back causing more mischief with Groan Ups from 18-23 October, before best-selling author David Walliams’ Gangsta Granny hits Cambridge from 27-30 October. The season is then rounded off by esteemed actors Patricia Hodge and Nigel Havers performing in  Noël Coward’s gloriously entertaining comedy-drama Private Lives from 22-27 November.

Tickets will go on public sale tomorrow at 12 noon (Thursday 29 April) here.