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Tuesday 2Christopher Graves – cello Emily Hooker - piano
Tuesday 2An Evening of Anthony Trollope with Edward Fox
Wednesday 3A Warning to the Curious
Thursday 4Red Herring Comedy Club
Friday 5Grand Ceilidh
Saturday 6The Dave O’Higgins Quintet featuring Eric Alexander
Monday 8Spiers & Boden
Thursday 11First Class
Friday 12John Pountney on the piano
Friday 12Pappy’s World Record Attempt
Saturday 13This Is Now
Saturday 13Stayin Alive 80s Special
Tuesday 16An Audience with Martin Bell
Wednesday 17St Patrick’s Night Celebrations with Gone to the Dogs
Thursday 18Me & Me Dad
Friday 19Jo Caulfield Won’t Shut Up!
Saturday 20From the Music Room
Monday 22 – Thursday 25Footloose
Friday 26John Fowles’s The French Lieutenant’s Woman
Friday 26The French Lieutenant’s Woman [15 1981]
Friday 26The Songs of Nick Drake
Saturday 27Lincoln Symphony Orchestra Spring Concert
Saturday 27The Drill Hall Book Swap!

Thursday 11 March

Comedy Fringe Weekend

Half Wit Theatre

First Class

First Class

Time: 8pm
Tickets: £9 (£7 concessions / £6 students)

A man rediscovers his passion for life in the unlikeliest of places… When Michel Bates makes a routine trip to the post office, he meets Beatrice – an impossibly enthusiastic postal worker, who takes him far beyond the confines of a mailroom into the universe of her imagination. Powered by her infectious lust for life, Bea leads Michael on a journey to find something he never knew he had lost. Fusing physical theatre with comedy and music, this absurd yet oh-so-believable human tale unfolds with delightful results.

‘This curious and charming fable is glorious in its playful physicality’ Time Out ‘What a debut! Wonderful explosion of physical theatre and unsurpassed imagination’ The Skinny

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Friday 12 March

John Pountney on the piano

Time: 10 - 12noon
Tickets: Free!

Friday 12 March

Comedy Fringe Weekend

Pappy’s World Record Attempt

Time: 8pm
Tickets: £12 (£10 concessions)

Fresh from Channel 4 and a critically acclaimed, sell-out run at the 2009 Edinburgh Festival, “the funniest sketch troupe on the Fringe” (The Scotsman) return to take the UK, and the record books, by storm. In 2007 they were nominated for the If.comedy award. In 2008 they won Chortle Best Sketch Act, performed in Australia and had their own shows on Channel 4 and Radio 4. Join them for a full night of sketches and songs and a chance to see them attempt the impossible. 200 Sketches In An Hour (plus bonus sketches and an interval!) One World Record. Heroic attempt, or spectacular folly? ‘Whether they succeed or not, they’re hilarious.’ Guardian

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Saturday 13 March

Comedy Fringe Weekend

New Art Club

This Is Now

This Is Now

Time: 8pm
Tickets: £10

In 1983, Tom illegally taped the first ‘Now That’s What I Call Music’ LP (side one) onto a C60 cassette. 25 years later he found it in a drawer and a new show was born. Join Britain’s funniest dance duo as they deconstruct the first ever Now album and jump headlong into a dark pool of days gone by and come out covered in a filthy 80s gunk. Wrestling with classic hits from Bonnie Tyler and Duran Duran, amongst others, will Tom and Pete be able to save the Drill Hall audience from drowning in nostalgia?

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Saturday 13 March

Comedy Fringe Weekend

Rubik's Cube

Stayin Alive 80s Special

Time: 9.30pm – 12.30am
Tickets: £5 Or pay just £13 for both events! (New Art Club This Is Now)

Straight after This Is Now, stay on for a special 80s edition of our regular club night Stayin Alive, a fantastic party night where respect and tolerance are big but anything goes … Strut your funky stuff to classic 80s hits from DJ Heretic. Email your requests (no guarantees!) to djhereticdj@googlemail.com

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Tuesday 16 March

Martin Bell

An Audience with Martin Bell

Time: 7.30pm
Tickets: £14 (£12 concessions)

A former BBC reporter and Britain’s first Independent MP in 50 years, Martin Bell, had vowed never to write another book. An 88p bathplug changed all that… A Very British Revolution gives both Bell’s unique view of the crisis sparked by the expenses scandal – as a parliamentary insider and yet outside the fray of any particular party – and, most compellingly, lays out his prescription for healing the deep wounds inflicted by the scandal. As Martin’s appearance with us will also almost certainly be in the run up to the next general election, this will be a fascinating time to hear this principled and intelligent man give his views on the current state of politics.

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Wednesday 17 March

Gone to the Dogs

St Patrick’s Night Celebrations with Gone to the Dogs

Time: 8pm
Tickets: £10

Join us to celebrate St Patrick’s Night in a truly authentic style with the welcome return to Lincoln of acclaimed Irish band Gone to the Dogs plus support acts. Guaranteed to be a fabulous toe-tapping night with traditional Irish jigs and reels as well as sweet, soft airs and evocative ballads that will transport you back to the legendary land of Ireland – even if you’ve never been! A great atmosphere with Guinness aplenty. Tonight, everybody in the world will be Irish – fáilte!

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Thursday 18 March

Hull Truck Theatre Company

Me & Me Dad

Me & Me Dad

Time: 7.30pm
Tickets: £10 (£8 concessions)

A story of friendship, fish pie and flick-to-kick football. Andy Green’s dad needs a recipe for toast. He thinks that tortilla fought King Kong and that Tiramisu played midfield for Brazil in the 1974 World Cup. In short, he’s rubbish. Good at Subbuteo but hopeless with spaghetti. So when Andy’s mum dies, Andy does the decent thing – he takes a month off work and moves back home with his dad to teach him how to cook. Fighting memories – and occasionally each other – and risking the sanity of friends and neighbours, not to mention Andy’s new girlfriend, the pair boil pans, set grills on fire and worse in an attempt to prevent a diet of pickled beetroot and jam sandwiches…

Watch the promotional video to learn more about Hull Truck Theatre Company.

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Friday 19 March

Jo Caulfield

Jo Caulfield Won’t Shut Up!

Time: 8pm
Tickets: £14 (£12 concessions)

The second Jo Caulfield hits the stage you know you’re in for a good time… She is one of the most successful and instantly recognisable female comedians in the country and the Star of Radio 4’s critically acclaimed It’s That Jo Caulfield Again. Jo is also regularly seen on Mock The Week (BBC2), Have I Got News For You (BBC1), Never Mind The Buzzcocks (BBC2), Argumental (Dave TV), Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow (BBC1) and Best of The Comedy Store (Ch5).

“Sharp-witted, urban comedy that goes down a treat. Like a sociology textbook, but with jokes” The Times.

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Saturday 20 March

Sixteen Eighty Five with Wendy Leonard - Soprano

Sixteen Eighty Five

From the Music Room

Time: 7.30pm
Tickets: £8 (£7 concessions) Under 16s free

Sixteen Eighty Five are back with their ever popular mix of seriously good music from the baroque … and before. Here is music for harpsichord, recorders, flute, viol and soprano voice written by baroque giants such as Bach and Handel as well as by less well known masters from the century before. Virtuosic fireworks alternate with gently interwoven textures producing a delightful evening’s music.

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Monday 22 March – Thursday 25 March

New Youth Theatre

Footloose

Footloose

Time: 7.30pm
Tickets: £6.50 (£5.50 conc)

Based on the 80s movie, New Youth Theatre’s adaptation of Footloose explodes onto the stage with classic anthems including ‘Holding out for the Hero’, ‘Almost Paradise’, ‘Let’s Hear it for the Boy’ and, of course, the title track ‘Footloose’. There’s just no stopping the music! www.newyouththeatre.co.uk

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Friday 26 March

Lunchtime Literature & Film

The French Lieutenant’s Woman

John Fowles’s The French Lieutenant’s Woman

Time: 12pm
Tickets: £5 in advance (£6 on the day)
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Followed at 2pm by The French Lieutenant’s Woman [15 1981]

Set in Fowles’s home town of Lyme Regis, this is the novel that finally established him as the leading British writer of his generation. Based on the skeleton of a true story, Fowles takes us into the nature of obsession, as an archeologist and a local ‘fallen woman’ struggle with a powerful mutual attraction in which you are invited to choose your own ending…or are you? Dr Jane Mackay reveals all!

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Friday 26 March

The French Lieutenant’s Woman [15 1981]

Time: 2pm
Tickets: Film Tickets: £4 in advance (£5 on the day) Talk & Film Ticket: £8 (advance only)

Stay on to see Karel Reisz’s glorious film, scripted by Harold Pinter, with Meryl Streep and Jeremy Irons, where the alternative endings are treated as a parallel modern narrative.

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Friday 26 March

Keith James & Rick Foot

Nick Drake

The Songs of Nick Drake

Time: 8pm
Tickets: £10 (£8 concessions)

Nick Drake recorded only three albums before his untimely death. At the time he was largely unnoticed, considered to be too fragile to engage the wilder audiences of the early 70s. Now, more than 30 years on, he has become one of the most revered of all English singer/songwriters. Several years ago Keith James, singer/songwriter and acoustic music producer, began to perform Nick’s songs live in concert, including here at the Drill Hall back in its first year. His performances received such unprecedented acclaim that, together with double bassist Rick Foot, Keith has now played almost 400 concerts dates across 10 UK tours and recorded both a live and a studio album of Nick’s music. Come and join us to hear Nick Drake’s beautiful and evocative music brought to life, together with a screening of a documentary about Nick’s life and music.

“an absolute must” Mark Radcliffe – BBC Radio 2 www.keith-james.com www.songsofnickdrake.com

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Saturday 27 March

Conductor: Neville Turner, Leader: Caroline Siriwardena

Lincoln Symphony Orchestra Spring Concert

Time: 7.30pm
Tickets: £10 (£8 concessions) Accompanied under 16s free

The LSO’s Spring concert should be another wonderful evening of live music. The acclaimed pianist Ian Buckle once again joins the orchestra to perform Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No.2, the music used in the classic film Brief Encounter. Berlioz Les Franc Juges Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 2 (soloist Ian Buckle) Brahms Symphony No.2

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Saturday 27 March

Books

The Drill Hall Book Swap!

Time: 11ish to 2ish in the Café Bar

Bring any book – swap it for any other…. It’s as simple as that!