Current CADS production

It's Shakespeare, but not as we know it

We’re starting rehearsals for our next show, which consists of two one-act comedies with Shakespearean connections. We’re presenting these as part of the Royston Arts Festival 2026 in September. We are also taking both of them to the Cambridge Festival of Drama at the ADC, also in September.

Ruby of Elsinore, by American Bruce Kane, sees the eponymous court hairdresser cutting the hair of (and exchanging banter with) Ophelia, Gertrude, Claudius, Hamlet and even the ghost. The cast list is as follows (as usual, names not shown in white are appearing with CADS for the first time):

Ruby - Rachael King

Ophelia - Emma-Louise Battom

Gertrude - Emma Daintrey

Claudius - Tim Johnson

Hamlet - Luke Francis

Ghost - Josh Rhodes

Marcie - Michelle Marks

Bernie - Jo Buggey

To Be, or Not to Bother? - a brand-new play by David Tristram - has the members of the Little Grimley Drama Society attempting to put on an evening of iconic scenes from the Bard with minimal resources and even less talent. The cast list for that one is as follows:

Gordon - Michael Young

Margaret - Issy McCann

Joyce - Heather Ormsby

Bernard - Darren Dunford

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