The ADC Theatre is Britain's oldest university playhouse. Plays have been presented on the site since 1855, when the Cambridge University Amateur Dramatic Club was founded, and the society met and performed in the back room of the Hoop Inn. The rooms at first were cramped and bare and lacking any proper facilities. In 1860, after the princely sum of £5 had been levied from each of the Club's members, the new stage of the Hoop Hotel – built in two more upstairs rooms leased from Ekin – was opened. In the 1980s, a volunteer-led programme of improvements was carried out and in the 1990s a new counterweight flying system, for lifting large pieces of scenery above the stage, was installed. The bar was refurbished in 2000, and during the mid-aughts the theatre underwent a dramatic redevelopment to modernise the facilities and structure of the building. Today the ADC Theatre continues to be the centre of student drama in Cambridge, hosting ambitious and professional standard productions. Recent graduates continue to go on to great things, performing in films and in the West End, touring as comedians and working in all areas of theatre.
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What can to say. The coffee was excellent and the staff were very helpful. The seats give plenty of leg room and I could hear everything said on the stage.
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Mark C -
06-07-2024
A Great artsy place. Typically, the bar is open till late after the performance
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Karolis Misiunas -
20-10-2016
