Footlights

Cambridge University Footlights Dramatic Club, commonly referred to simply as the Footlights, is an amateur theatrical club in Cambridge, England, run by the students of Cambridge University and now also the Anglia Ruskin University (formerly Anglia Polytechnic University). It was founded in 1883.

It grew in prominence in the 1960s, as a hotbed of comedy and satire, and continues to produce the regular and very popular Smokers at the ADC Theatre - an informal mixture of sketches and stand-up.

Footlights also produces regular plays and sketch shows, such as this year's sell-out Spring Revue Circus and the tour show Niceties, which has just concluded a well-received run at this summer's Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Famous Footlights members

The careers of many prominent figures in the world of entertainment began in Footlights, including:

Footlights President

The elected leader of Cambridge University Footlights Dramatic Club is known as the Footlights President. There is also a Vice President. Past presidents have included The Goodies members Tim Brooke-Taylor and Graeme Garden, as well as Peter Cook, Hugh Laurie, Tony Slattery, and Monty Python member Eric Idle.

The current Footlights President is Tom Sharpe and the current Vice-Presidents are Tom Williams and Luke Roberts. They are joined on the Footlights Committee by Helen Cripps, Tom Kingsley and Alastair Roberts.

List of Presidents

Footlights book

Information about the Footlights Revues during the first one hundred years of the Cambridge University Footlights Dramatic Club (1883—1983), and the people who appeared in them — with a foreword by Eric Idle:

• Footlights! — 'A Hundred Years of Cambridge Comedy' — Robert Hewison, Methuen London Ltd, 1983,
  ISBN 0-413-51150-2.

See also

• The Oxford Revue

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