Reviews, previews and listings from Cambridge’s theatres, galleries and concert halls.
Cambridge Film Festival
The Cambridge Film Festival is Forty five and more vibrant and delicious than ever. Out of a brilliant life up of contemporary British movies come some must-see dramas whilst the always fabulous fare laid on by European and international filmmakers create that red-carpet feel to the festival in the gorgeous welcoming venue at the Arts Picturehouse.
Cambridge Jazz Festival
Our blast of 1927 Jazz blues opens a preview of a fabulous festival in Cambridge
Switzerland
The wonderful Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds has come up with another compelling production, this time Joanna Murray-Smith’s Switzerland, a powerful two-hander inspired by the life and work of Patricia Highsmith.
By royal appointment at the arts theatre
Jane Asher is a superb actress with a warm smile. Once only do we see it in this production, when she takes her deserved bow at the end of this long play. This debut play by Daisy Goodwin has no room for nuance, and the dialogue is a matrix of mannered exchanges in an atmosphere of iron restraint.