The Pembroke Players is a not-for-profit organisation, and is entirely dependant on the generosity of its audiences, supporters, and sponsors and benefactors.
As it stands, the tour is set to benefit over 3500 people, visiting over 10 educational institutions during its 3 week tour of Japan, and subsequent performances and workshops in the UK.
Please consider supporting this project and all that we aim to achieve:
'To promote personal and institutional links between the UK and Japan; to offer Japanese students an enjoyable insight to Shakespeare, the English language, and drama, and to forge a mutual appreciation of English and Japanese culture between tour participants and audiences.'
Your money will be put straight into the costs of the 2008 tour; the future of the project is dependant on the financial viability of the 2008 tour.
We must raise, amongst other monies:
This is entirely possible, as was proved by the sensational 2007 tour - but we do need your help!
More information about sponsorship packages will be available on this website soon.
The Japan Tour 2008 is supported by Pembroke College, Cambridge:
To whom it may concern,
The Pembroke Players is a dramatic society at the University of Cambridge, for which I act as Senior Treasurer. The society has a history of theatrical touring stretching back to the 1950s, and so has a wealth of experience in working alongside other cultures.
In 2007, the society launched their Japan Tour with a production of Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet', in part to contribute to the College's ever-strengthening relations with Japan. Pembroke College fully supported and encouraged the tour, and the associated educational programme that ran alongside. The project met with great acclaim, securing financial support not only from the College but also from the Daiwa and Great Britain Sasakawa foundations, and has subsequently received a number of invitations to return in 2008. The College continues to support the development of the only existing UK-Japan theatrical exchange in Cambridge.
The project offers real potential to foster an inter-cultural dramatic dialogue. The Pembroke Players Japan Tour is an exciting and ambitious enterprise, and can continue to flourish with your support. I recommend it without reservation.
Sincerely,
Dr. Jonathan Parry
University Reader in History
Senior Fellow, Director of Studies, and Tutorial Bursar
Senior Treasurer, Pembroke Players
Pembroke College
University of Cambridge