WHAT ’ S ON
YOUR AT-A-GLANCE GUIDE TO EVENTS AROUND CAMBRIDGE THIS MONTH
2 JULY SHARON VAN ETTEN
3, 10, 17, 24, 31 JULY SOUNDS GREEN
5, 7, 18-21, 26 ENCHANTED CINEMA Alfresco films this month – with deckchairs, headphone hire, street food and more – include Romeo + Juliet , Top Gun , Bohemian Rhapsody , If Beale Street Could Talk , The Favourite and Kill Bill Volume 1 . Times vary | Gonville Hotel | £14.50 enchantedcinema.co.uk
New York’s Van Etten brings her latest tour to Cambridge in support of her long-awaited fifth album, Remind Me Tomorrow . In this new work, she turns with full force toward the darker moods that have previously illuminated the edges of her output. 7pm | Cambridge Junction | £25 junction.co.uk
A series of Wednesday evening concerts at the Botanic Garden, with Afro Tema on the 3rd, followed by Martin Kemp’s Organised Chaos, Truly Medley Deeply, Noga Ritter, and Ruth Aplin and Josh Kemp Quartet. 6.15pm | Botanic Garden | Retiring collection, plus general admission to garden cambridgesummermusic.co.uk
7 JULY HINXTON WATERMILL OPEN DAY
2-6 JULY THE 39 STEPS
4-6, 13, 20, 21, 27, 28 IN SITU THEATRE
It’s a legendary Hitchcock masterpiece but packed with non-stop laughs, as four actors play 139 zany characters. Expect an on-stage plane crash, handcuffs, missing fingers, romance and more! 7.45pm plus 2.30pm on Saturday | ADC Theatre from £9 | adctheatre.com
In situ theatre returns with Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar on 4 to 6 July, a solo performance of Hamlet on the 13th, and storytelling of the strange and uncanny from the likes of Edgar Allan Poe on the final two weekends. 8pm | Leper Chapel, Cambridge | £15 insitutheatre.co.uk
Look around this stunning working watermill that dates back to the Domesday Book. Guides will explain how it works and the history of an incredible building. There’s also a ‘Where’s Ratty?’ contest for children.
2.30-5.30pm | Hinxton Watermill £3, children £1 | cambridgeppf.org
8-27 JULY CAMBRIDGE
SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL Celebrating its 32nd year of performing the Bard’s plays in college gardens, the festival is again split into two halves. The first four plays, until 27 July, are Hamlet , A Midsummer Night’s Dream , TheWinter’s Tale and Henry IV (Part 1) . 7.30pm | Various college gardens £17, £13 concs | cambridgeshakespeare.com 9 JULY REVEREND RICHARD COLES Hear how – and why – one half of 80s duo The Communards went from Top of the Pops ‘mayhem’ to being a priest, Radio 4 presenter and TV show panellist. 7.45pm | Cambridge Arts Theatre | from £25 cambridgeartstheatre.com
5-7 JULY THE BIG WEEKEND
9-13 JULY SEPARATE TABLES
The major free festival has the customary fireworks on Friday, preceded by Kid Creole and the Coconuts, Doctor and the Medics, and two sets from Craig Charles. Saturday features ska from Big 10, and the Cambridge Mela is on Sunday. Various times | Parker’s Piece | Free | cambridgelive.org.uk
Terence Rattigan’s two interlinked plays, Table by the Window and Table Number Seven , set 18 months apart, feature the struggle to come to terms with the changes in post-war Britain. 7.45pm plus 2.30pm on Saturday | ADC Theatre | from £9 | adctheatre.com
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