CAMBRIDGE JUNCTION REOPENS
Week I of Lockdown Mark II with III weeks to go and we must grab every light on any kind of horizon. Thankfully the Cambridge Junction has come to rescue of the theatrically starved with what looks like a feast of thespian delicacies. After months of careful Covid planning, the theatre will open its doors to a host of socially distanced live shows.
The fun begins on 20 November with a stand up set by Cambridge comedian Irving McCormick. Severely disabled, his show ‘Stand Up with Irving’ has won much admiration from comedic luminaries such as Harry Hill, Lucy Porter and Jonathan Pie. The show is raising funds to help those living with disabilities in our area to fully enjoy the arts.
Christmas shows
A gloomy Christmas? Not if The Junction has anything to do with it. The fun begins on Thursday 10 December with a night of spoken word from Inja and Hollie McNish. Cambridge native Inja is a multi-disciplined wordsmith who has made an indelible mark on the creative community. Hollie McNish is an award-winning, published author who, her PR says has read for organisations as diverse as The Economist, MTV & Ronnie Scotts. Not sure what ‘reading’ for The Economist means but if it’s good enough for my favourite weekly, then it’s more than good for me.
Saturday 12 December will see a comedy triple bill with three rising stars of the stand-up scene. Taskmaster champion and toast of the Edinburgh Fringe Lou Sanders will be joined by comedian and impressionist Luke Kempner and winner of the Jumpoff TV Comedy Competition, Travis Jay.
On Wednesday 16 December audiences are invited to join performance artist Daniel Oliver for Weird Séance, a wild and raucous participatory performance with live music from Steve Blake. It was delayed from last April and has now been adapted with virus safety in mind. The blurb for the show sounds wonderfully dotty involving ‘fake real woods’, fake deaths, an axe and a sort of madcap séance. I can’t make out from the show’s press release if the whole thing is a mock horror hoot or a zany attempt to contact the hereafter (and does that mean the post vaccine world of the future?). It all sounds suitably Junctionesque and should be unmissable.
From 20 December, panto of a sort hits our screens when NIE and the Cambridge Junction bring us joy and afternoon delight with ‘The Snow Queen’. Live streamed to our pre-Christmas parlours, the show features some essential ingredients for festive fun: magic, a broken mirror, helpful cows, reindeers and a Mongolian yurt. The team has a great track record (with Snow White and Beauty and the Beast) so this year’s offering sound suitably dandy – there’s even an activity pack on offer to get stuck in as the action progresses.
For booking and further details see
https://www.junction.co.uk/events/socially-distanced
