The Schonell Theatre

‘It ain’t over till the fat lady sings’ – Anon.

The Schonell Theatre arose out of the ambition of some students at the university’s residential colleges in the 1960s to have their end-of-year Gilbert and Sullivan and other productions performed at their own live theatre space, with some lofty ambitions of it being used to stage the equivalent of the Cambridge Footlights, or some such similar production.… Go to Article