Pitch Imperfect

Content warning [May contain spoilers]

Evan has always loved musical theatre.

Musical theatre, however, hasn’t always loved him back.

Pitch Imperfect explores what it means to (literally) find your voice as a trans performer. What happens when puberty runs a sequel, gender roles get in the way, and your dream roles – born from years of rampant gender envy – never land in your vocal range? Through song, storytelling, and a touch of existential comedy, Evan Richards takes to the stage, armed with a pubescent baritone and a setlist that was once too low, now too high, and somehow still out of reach.

This year the Cambridge University Musical Theatre Society has been transforming our 32-seater Larkum Studio into the CUMTS Cabaret - a chance to explore the enchanting possibilities when music & theatre intertwine. These shows have showcased a fantastic mix of performers, songs, and stories, and had critics raving about the ‘intimate and moving form of storytelling’, and ‘emotional highs and lows, humour, and deeply personal content’.

This production is suitable for ages 12 and over.

Times

Thu 29 May at 8:00pm

Venue

ADC Larkum Studio

Tickets

£6-£8

discussions of transphobia, reference to needles/drugs

The ADC Theatre is Britain's oldest University playhouse, today administered and maintained by the University of Cambridge. Plays have been presented on the site since 1855, when the Cambridge University Amateur Dramatic Club (CUADC) was founded, and the society met and performed in the back room of the Hoop Inn, which stood almost exactly where the ADC Theatre stands today. Today, the ADC Theatre is the centre of University drama in Cambridge, run almost entirely by students with no Faculty involvement.

The Larkum Studio is accessed through the far side of the ADC Bar.

This venue is wheelchair accessible. More information can be viewed here.