Festival of New Writing 2025
Howard Theatre
The annual Festival of New Writing, established in 2014 and now a central and prestigious feature of the Cambridge drama scene, returns in Lent 2024 to showcase the best of the writing talent the student body has to offer.
Students of all disciplines and from all over Cambridge submit one-act plays to be read and assessed over the Christmas holidays. A select few are chosen to be staged over the three nights of the Festival, directed and performed by students. At the end of each evening, the playwrights are invited to join a panel of top theatre practitioners to discuss their work-in-progress and take questions from the audience. Everyone plays a part!
The Festival provides students with the opportunity to engage with industry professionals, a unique learning experience, as well as bringing a wonderful theatrical spectacle to the Howard stage. DDS is proud of the fact that many FoNW alumni have gone on to forge successful careers in the Performing Arts as actors, writers and directors.
THURSDAY:
Beater’s Day by Eve Connor
Gulp and Nonsuch by Ahana Banerji
Giving Out by Jude Hughes
FRIDAY:
Dry Land by Annie Fogden
Threads by Aoife McGrath
The Lost Pubs of Tewkesbury by Bex Goodchild
SATURDAY:
The Mark of the Carol by Charlotte Payne
Bathwater by Sam Misan
Engaged by James Critchley
Content Information
Beater’s day = strong language, blood, sexism, mentions of animal death; gulp and nonsuch = n/a; giving out = reference to death and terminal illness, reference to drugs, use of archaic homophobic language; dry land = alcoholism, addiction, substance abuse; threads = abusive relationships, domestic abuse, emotional abuse, allusions to violence; the lost pubs of tewkesbury = alcohol, physical violence; the mark of the carol = n/a; bathwater = implied child sexual abuse; engaged = reference to panic attack, depiction of vomiting.
Access Information
The venue is fully wheelchair accessible. There may be some restrictions for assistance dogs. Arrangements for those hard of hearing are limited.
Thu 06 Mar 2025 7:30pm
£7.00 / £5.00 + booking fee
Tickets not available
Fri 07 Mar 2025 7:30pm
£7.00 / £5.00 + booking fee
Tickets not available
Sat 08 Mar 2025 7:30pm
£7.00 / £5.00 + booking fee
Tickets not available
