During its lifetime it has been the starting point for many prominent actors and comedians, such as Clive James, Peter Cook and Eric Idle, and more recently Tom Hiddleston, Jonny Sweet and Joe Thomas.
The first theatre production, Ring Round the Moon by Christopher Fry after Jean Anouilh, took place in snow-struck Blinco Grove in February 1956.
Recordings survive from early productions and Smokers in the 1950s and 1960s featuring original material written and performed by, inter alia, Peter Cook, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Bill Oddie, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Germaine Greer, Clive James, and Jonathan Lynn.
Innovation was not limited to the performances either; a poster from a 1970 production features one of the earliest examples of computer generated ascii art in advertising.
In addition, they produce an annual College Pantomime written and starring freshers, multiple shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and the Pembroke Players Japan Tour.
The first Tour of West Germany took place in the summer of 1957, after one of the founders of the Society became the unintended recipient of a letter addressed to the Cambridge Mummers, inviting them to record Hamlet for German radio.
The tour was recorded in its entirety for Nord West Deustche Rundfunk and was conducted under the auspices of 'Die Bruecke', a spin-off of the British Council.
[2] The Midsummer Night's Dream tour (directed by James Lewis) expanded in September 2008 under the auspices of the British Council's UK-Japan 2008[3] project, with nine performances at universities across Japan.
The Tempest (directed by Oscar Toeman) was the chosen production of the PPJT tour this year, with the company performing in Tokyo, Nagoya and Yokohama.
UK performances took place at Ely Cathedral and Pembroke House in Walworth, along with an October home-run in the Howard Theatre, Downing College, Cambridge.
The fifth anniversary tour took a production of Twelfth Night (directed by Chloe Mashiter) to Japan in summer 2011, with a preview performance at Ely Cathedral followed by shows in Yokohama, Yoyogi, Ochanomizu and Kichijoji.
Four pre-tour performances were held at Ely Cathedral and the Round Church in Cambridge, followed by a post-tour home run at the Corpus Playroom.
In July 2012, Pembroke Players performed a short run of Much Ado About Nothing (directed by Holly Maguire) at the Haidian Theatre, Beijing.