(unfulfilled) to promote summer festivals. The opening production on 22 November 1926 was Oresteia, with choreography by Ninette de Valois. Gray retired from the theatre in 1933 and wrote on Taoism under the pseudonym "Wei Wu Wei". Norman Marshall worked at the theatre from 1926 and was its director from 1932 to 1933. From 1927, Joseph Macleod was an actor and producer at the theatre, and in 1933 he became the theatre's director and lessee. Five of Macleod's plays were staged there, including Overture to Cambridge (1933) and A Woman Turned to Stone (1934). Under Macleod, the theatre became known for avant-garde productions, and the staging of lesser known works by major playwrights. Macleod staged some of Ezra Pound's Noh plays, and also some Ibsen and Chekhov (his company, The Cambridge Festival Players, was one of the first in the UK to stage Chekhov's play The Seagull). The theatre was obliged to close due to financial difficulties in June 1935. The building was recorded as Grade II* listed in 1950. From 1962, it was used by the Arts Theatre as a workshop and store. Today The building is in use as a Buddhist centre. Historic England describe the interior as "a virtually complete example of a Georgian theatre with a three-tiered horseshoe auditorium with the galleries supported on cast iron columns." and state that a painting of the Royal Arms remains above the proscenium. References </ref> External links Visit to the theatre, 2016 Cambridge Festival Theatre, Marlowe Society – archived on 9 January 2014 Theatres completed in 1816 Theatres in Cambridge Grade II* listed buildings in Cambridge Grade II* listed theatres