March at a glance...
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| Tuesday 2 | Christopher Graves – cello Emily Hooker - piano |
| Tuesday 2 | An Evening of Anthony Trollope with Edward Fox |
| Wednesday 3 | A Warning to the Curious |
| Thursday 4 | Red Herring Comedy Club |
| Friday 5 | Grand Ceilidh |
| Saturday 6 | The Dave O’Higgins Quintet featuring Eric Alexander |
| Monday 8 | Spiers & Boden |
| Thursday 11 | First Class |
| Friday 12 | John Pountney on the piano |
| Friday 12 | Pappy’s World Record Attempt |
| Saturday 13 | This Is Now |
| Saturday 13 | Stayin Alive 80s Special |
| Tuesday 16 | An Audience with Martin Bell |
| Wednesday 17 | St Patrick’s Night Celebrations with Gone to the Dogs |
| Thursday 18 | Me & Me Dad |
| Friday 19 | Jo Caulfield Won’t Shut Up! |
| Saturday 20 | From the Music Room |
| Monday 22 – Thursday 25 | Footloose |
| Friday 26 | John Fowles’s The French Lieutenant’s Woman |
| Friday 26 | The French Lieutenant’s Woman [15 1981] |
| Friday 26 | The Songs of Nick Drake |
| Saturday 27 | Lincoln Symphony Orchestra Spring Concert |
| Saturday 27 | The Drill Hall Book Swap! |
Thursday 11 March
Comedy Fringe Weekend
Half Wit Theatre
First Class
Time: 8pmTickets: £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
Friday 12 March
Comedy Fringe Weekend
Pappy’s World Record Attempt
Time: 8pmTickets: £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
Saturday 13 March
Comedy Fringe Weekend
New Art Club
This Is Now
Time: 8pmTickets: £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?
Saturday 13 March
Comedy Fringe Weekend
Stayin Alive 80s Special
Time: 9.30pm – 12.30amTickets: £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
Tuesday 16 March
An Audience with Martin Bell
Time: 7.30pmTickets: £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.
Wednesday 17 March
St Patrick’s Night Celebrations with Gone to the Dogs
Time: 8pmTickets: £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!
Thursday 18 March
Hull Truck Theatre Company
Me & Me Dad
Time: 7.30pmTickets: £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.
Friday 19 March
Jo Caulfield Won’t Shut Up!
Time: 8pmTickets: £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.
Saturday 20 March
Sixteen Eighty Five with Wendy Leonard - Soprano
From the Music Room
Time: 7.30pmTickets: £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.
Monday 22 March – Thursday 25 March
New Youth Theatre
Footloose
Time: 7.30pmTickets: £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
Friday 26 March
Lunchtime Literature & Film
John Fowles’s The French Lieutenant’s Woman
Time: 12pmTickets: £5 in advance (£6 on the day)
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!
Friday 26 March
The French Lieutenant’s Woman [15 1981]
Time: 2pmTickets: 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.
Friday 26 March
Keith James & Rick Foot
The Songs of Nick Drake
Time: 8pmTickets: £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
Saturday 27 March
Conductor: Neville Turner, Leader: Caroline Siriwardena
Lincoln Symphony Orchestra Spring Concert
Time: 7.30pmTickets: £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
