Panto may have been and gone, but the New Year will get off to a fabulous start at Cambridge University’s ADC Theatre from January 7.

Noah the Musical kicks off the 2009 season in fine style as Fledgling Productions return to their usual New Year slot.

Featuring all the elements you might expect (a large boat, animals, and a storm!), the show has already proved a hit on tour as Noah, Mrs Noah and their family inject some musicality into this most famous of stories.

With original songs and lyrics, the show attracted standing ovations on debut and its young cast of local youngsters will be hoping for the same from Jan 7-10.

Meanwhile, the rest of the month at the ADC throws up some heavyweight offerings with Hamlet and Monteverdi’s Orfeo on the bill.

The Cambridge University European Theatre Group present Hamlet from January 13-17 in a raw and vibrant interpretation of Shakespeare’s classic tragedy.

Billed as Hamlet for a ‘21st Century audience’, the production features the dulcet tones of none other than Sir Derek Jacobi.

Sir Derek, a Cambridge graduate, voices a terrifyingly enormous puppet of Hamlet’s murdered father.

Propelled relentlessly to its tragic conclusion, the Group promise this will be a highly visceral and visual representation of Hamlet.

The high drama continues as Cambridge University Opera Society takes on the challenging Orfeo.

As vibrant today as it was in 1607, Monteverdi’s telling of Orpheus’ journey into the underworld to rescue Euridice is one of the world’s earliest recognised operas.

Moving, beautiful and likely to reside in the memory, Orfeo will be performed by some of Cambridge’s finest young singers and a large period instrument orchestra.

Orfeo runs from January 27-31st.

The New Year will also offer comedy with Breakfast at Night (Jan 28-31), following the fortunes of a moralistic DJ piloting a breakfast radio show in the middle of the night. And for dance fans, January offers Beauty, from the Cambridge University Dance Workshop, between January 20-24.

Beauty uses contemporary dance to explore the meaning of the word, in a fusion of contrasting perspectives from around the world.

For full details of the New Year programme at the recently-refurbished ADC Theatre, visit www.adctheatre.com
 

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