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Zing is home to great free activities and performances throughout the year. See our website for up-to-date listings.
Hello There! Welcome to our Spring/Summer 2014 season, packed full of great theatre and arts events this New Year. I always look forward to the first half of the year, as it is chock full of festivals offering something for everyone. We start with newvolutions in January – a micro-festival of innovative performance for the curious and then move straight on to re:generation in Feb/March – our festival of work by and for young people, which this year features Ghost Town by award-winning Pilot Theatre, commissioned by LOV, made right here in Lincolnshire and featuring a curtain-raiser by local school pupils. We then have the week-long David Greig Festival at the end of March, celebrating one of the UK’s most prominent playwrights, which includes Actors Touring Company’s moving and powerful production of The Events, featuring two local community choirs.
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Over Easter we’re teaming up with Lincoln Drill Hall and The Collection to present EASTIVAL – a children’s festival for the city of Lincoln, offering artistic treats, such as a new version of Pinocchio written by Michael Rosen and Meeting Mr Boom a dance show for children that takes place on an inflatable set! Then in May we’ll be presenting the Final Degree Shows of the University of Lincoln’s Dance and Drama students, whilst taking part in Lincoln Inspired and playing host to the Big Chris Barber Band as part of Lincoln Jazz Week – and there’s much more besides!
Lincolnshire One Venues Lincolnshire has a really creative community and we’re making sure 12 to 25 year olds feel part of it. As part of Lincolnshire One Venues (LOV), a network of ten arts venues, we are working with young people to create a range of exciting activities and events for and by young people across the county. If you’re aged between 12 and 25 visit www.facebook.com/ LovProjectTeam for the latest opportunities and to have your say.
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Director’s Choice We have many great events on offer this season but if you like
Part of University of Lincoln
The Trilogy // Ours Was The Fen Country // Ghost Town // Hammer & Tongs Meeting Mr Boom // Foreplay // Zoe Rahman
Lincoln Performing Arts Centre is also home to Lincoln School of Performing Arts. Around 400 students study Dance and Drama here at undergraduate and postgraduate level. Find us online at www.lincoln.ac.uk/lspa
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Fridays 10am-11.30am (10 Jan – 25 July // excluding 18 April)
Lil’ Pacs
Fun creative play sessions guided storytellers and artists: perfect for parents and toddlers.
Fridays 5pm-7pm (17 Jan – 30 May // excluding 7 Feb, 4-18 April)
Commuter Jazz
The weekend starts here. Great live music from laidback lounge to Brazilian beats.
The Collection@
Our visual arts space showcasing young and emerging artists. Open normal café hours. For latest details on exhibitions please visit our website.
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The Lincoln Company
Encore: The Show Tunes Strike Back! Saturday 1 February 7.30pm Tickets: £10 Full // £8 Concessions // £5 Students & Under 26s Running Time: 1 hour 50 mins (inc. interval)
Michael Pinchbeck
The Trilogy
Produced and performed by talented LSPA students, Encore celebrates the musical theatre that we all know and love. This large and lively cast will stage unforgettable Broadway and West End hits in a way you’ve never seen before, alongside brand-new, show-stopping dance routines. A great night out for the whole family, the show features classics from Annie and Les Misérables, and modern favourites from Wicked and Book of Mormon. So join us for a night of toe-tapping musical madness and hear songs that will make you dance, laugh, cry… and fall in love with musical theatre all over again.
Thursday 30 January 7.30pm Tickets: £12 Full // £10 Concessions // £5 Students & Under 26 Running Time: 2 hours 15 mins (inc. interval)
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International Concert Series
Vienna Mozart Trio Sunday 26 January 3pm Tickets: £15 Full // £13 Concessions // £5 Students & Under 26s Running Time: 1 hour 50 mins (inc. interval) Over 17 years the Vienna Mozart Trio has performed in the most renowned concert halls of Europe and Asia from the Sala Verdi in Milan, to the Wigmore Hall in London and the Beijing Concert. Mozart – Trio No.5 in E minor K.542 Beethoven – Piano Trio in D Op.70 No.1 “Ghost” Dvorak – Piano Trio in B flat Op.21
Still House
Ours Was The Fen Country
Award-winning writer and theatre maker Michael Pinchbeck has created three devised performances inspired by the work of William Shakespeare. The Beginning, an interpretation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Middle, a deconstruction of Hamlet, and The End triggered by a stage direction from The Winter’s Tale, are to be shown together for the first time as The Trilogy. Fusing an experimental approach to Shakespeare’s text with the company’s personal stories about their first or last times onstage The Trilogy asks the audience to enter a world where a performance can be a rehearsal, text can be both script and set and they are always aware of where the fire exits are.
Created by Dan Canham and company Produced by MAYK
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Thursday 6 February 7.30pm Tickets: £12 Full // £10 Concessions // £5 Students & Under 26s Running Time: 1 hour (no interval) For the past two years Dan Canham has been capturing conversations with people of the fens in East Anglia. Eel-catchers, horse breeders and young farmers have all been interviewed. In this ethereal piece of dance-theatre Dan and his team fuse movement and sound with the words and memories of their native collaborators to get to the heart of the Fens – a beautiful, bleak and mysterious expanse of flat land. In a place where the soil is shrinking by the height of a person in the lifetime of a person, this is an exhilarating, poetic look at a disappearing community and the inevitability of change.
“Michael Pinchbeck is a terrific theatre maker” The Guardian
“One of the most original talents around” Independent
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“Canham and his cast provide a living eulogy: harsh, bleak and richly beautiful.” The Guardian
Venue The Scotsman Herald
Ours Was the Fen Country is a Bristol Old Vic Ferment, New Wolsey and DanceXchange commission. Produced by MAYK. Research and Development supported by Ferment, Arts Council England, Pulse Festival, BETA at Norfolk and Norwich Festival, Dartington Arts and Norfolk Dance. Rural touring supported by Dance4.
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St Barnabas Lincolnshire Hospice
Take Me Out Friday 7 February 7.30pm Tickets: £7.50 in advance // £10 on the night Running Time: 2 hours 10 mins (inc. interval) Join us as lucky hopefuls take to the stage in St Barnabas Hospice’s very own version of the hit TV show ‘Take Me Out’. Help cheer the brave lads and lucky lasses on as our very own ‘Cupid’ - steers romance to the next level. Our event won’t feature the famous ‘No Likey, no Lighty’ but will instead feature balloons. If a balloon pops, then the fun for the man on parade stops. For further information visit www.stbarnabashospice.co.uk or contact St Barnabas fundraising office (01522) 559516
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Dance Factor 2014
Dance Factor 2014 features ten different street dance crews consisting of young people, aged 11 – 18 years who have been involved in ten weeks of dance sessions from around North Kesteven and City of Lincoln. All groups will perform their piece and the competition will be judged by street dance specialists. The show also features special guest performers: Fully Functioning Individuals of Impact Dance (London).
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Saturday 8 February 7.30pm Tickets: £3 all seats
Come along and support local young people as they battle it out for the 2014 street-dance champions title, live on the stage!
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The Lincoln Company
The History Boys
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Thursday 13 February 7.30pm Tickets: £10 Full // £8 Concessions // £5 Students & Under 26s Running Time: 2 hours (inc. interval) An unruly bunch of bright, funny sixth-form boys in pursuit of sex, sport and a place at university. A maverick English teacher at odds with the young and shrewd supply teacher. A headmaster obsessed with results; a history teacher who thinks he’s a fool… Staff room rivalry and the anarchy of adolescence provoke insistent questions about education and its purpose in Alan Bennett’s classic play.
“A superb, life-enhancing play.” The Guardian An amateur production presented by arrangement with Samuel French Ltd.
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Full Frontal Nerdity Friday 14 February 8pm Tickets: £15 Full // £13 Concessions // £10 Students (Limited Early Bird Offer) Running Time: 1 hour 50 mins (inc. interval)
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International Concert Series Age: 15+ (contains adult content)
Fresh from the Edinburgh Fringe, the sell-out comedy phenomenon is back on tour with a brand new show for the insatiably sci-curious. Whether you loved or loathed the school science lab, Festival of the Spoken Nerd is here to feed your brain, tickle your ribs and light your Bunsen burner. Stand-up mathematician Matt Parker (BBC2 Things You Need To Know) experiments maestro Steve Mould (BBC1’s Britain’s Brightest street scientist) and geeky songstress Helen Arney (BBC Radio4 Infinite Monkey Cage) mix astonishing science with statistically significant comedy and maybe some things that go BANG! With over a million views on YouTube, for their experiments, songs and stand-up, this is your chance to see three of the UK’s best (and nerdiest) performers in an unforgettable night of comedy and curiosity. Full Frontal Nerdity guaranteed!
Yuka Ishizuka, Violin // Riyad Nicolas, Piano
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Sunday 16 February 3pm Tickets: £12 Full // £10 Concessions // £5 Students & Under 26s Running Time: 1 hour 50 mins (inc. interval) Yuka Ishizuka is a regular on the classical festival circuit and has won first prize in Italy’s International Young Musicians Competition and the Beethoven Chamber Music Competition.
“A riotously funny show about science… brimming with unashamed geekery” – Three Weeks
Bach – Chaconne in D minor Beethoven – Sonata for Violin and Piano in F Op.24 “Spring” Debussy – Claire de la lune Cesar Franck – Sonata for Violin and Piano in A
“Charm and perky curiosity is in its DNA” The Guardian
Supported by Tillett Trust
Premier Stage Productions
Bananas In Pyjamas Thursday 20 February 1pm & 3.30pm Tickets: £12.50 Adults // £10.50 Children // £42 Family (4 People, Max 2 Adults) Running Time: 1 hour 30 mins (inc. interval) It’s Partytime in Cuddlestown Park. But wait… the guest of honour’s gone missing? It’s a Banana emergency! Join B1, B2, Amy, Lulu and Morgan in this brand new, all singing, all dancing show. With plenty of audience participation, and slapstick fun… Can you help the Banana Detectives solve the case?
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family friendly
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Courtney Pine: House Of Legends Tour Pilot Theatre and Lincolnshire One Venues present
Saturday 22 February 7.30pm Tickets: £17.50 All Seats Running Time: 1 hour 50 mins (inc. interval) No musician more embodies the innovations and dramatic transformation of the British jazz scene over the past twenty-plus years than Courtney Pine C.B.E. Fresh from sell-out international tours we are delighted to welcome Courtney back to Lincoln with his critically acclaimed live set from his album House of Legends. Deeply steeped in the traditions of the Caribbean, this very personal project sees Courtney on top form. Expect an exhilarating mix of Merengue, Ska, Mento and Calypso as played through the lens (saxophone) of a UK born artist with strong, proud Afro-Caribbean roots.
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Post Show Discussion Thurs 27 Feb
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The Reduced Shakespeare Company
Instant Dissidence
Caramel Wednesday 12 March 7.30pm Tickets: £12 Full // £10 Concessions // £5 Students & Under 26s Running Time: 1 hour (no interval)
The Bible: The Complete Word Of God (Abridged)
You can watch dance, even hear it, but have you ever tried to smell it, to taste it?
Friday 14 March 7.30pm Tickets: £16 Full // £13 Concessions // £10 Students (Limited Early Bird Offer) Running Time: 2 hours (inc. interval)
Caramel is an edible choreography: a cross between a dancemaking session and a cooking session, stimulating all five senses.
The Good Book Just Got Better!
Caramel is created by Rita Marcalo in collaboration with artist Gary Winters (Lone Twin), dramaturg Ivana Ivkovic (BADco.) and visual artist Lucy Barker.
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Commissioned by Theatre in the Mill, produced by Dance4, and funded by Arts Council of England.
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It’s apocalypse now as the three cultural guerrillas of The Reduced Shakespeare Company set their reductive sights on the good book. Yes, it’s an affectionate, irreverent roller coaster ride from fig leaves to final judgment as the bad boys of abridgement tackle the great theological questions: Did Adam and Eve have navels? Did Moses really look like Charlton Heston? And why isn’t the word “phonetic” spelt the way it sounds? Whether you are Catholic or Protestant, Muslim or Jew, Atheist or Jedi, you will be tickled by the RSC’s romp through old time religion.
“This is a slick, fast, very funny show… skilled performers with immaculate, sassy American timing.” The Times
“The RSC put the “fun” back in fundamentalism.”Baltimore Sun
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Script This Wednesday 19 March 6.30pm Tickets: Free (Book In Advance) Running Time: 2 hours (inc. interval) An evening of rehearsed readings of new plays curated by Lincoln Performing Arts Centre and given the professional treatment by a director and a team of actors.
University of Lincoln Great Minds Series
Chris Packham: Wild In Lincoln Tuesday 18 March 6pm Tickets: Free (Book In Advance)
Martin Roscoe, Piano Sunday 16 March 3pm Tickets: £14 Full // £12 Concessions // £5 Students & Under 26s Running Time: 1 hour 50 mins (inc. interval) A favourite to Lincoln audiences, Martin has also performed regularly across Europe, Asia, Australasia and South Africa. Recent and future engagements include appearances with BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Hallé, and City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Mozart – Fantasy in D Minor, K397 Schumann – Kreisleriana Beethoven – Sonata No.14 in C sharp minor, Op.27 No.2 ‘Moonlight’ Brahms – Fantasies Op. 116 Chopin – Fantasie in F minor Op. 49
Join naturalist and broadcaster Chris Packham for an entertaining and informative look at some of nature’s most popular and interesting species. Illustrated with his own photographs from around the world and from his beloved UK, he explains the fascinating ecologies and behaviours of a range of creatures from polar bears to peregrines while exploring the theme of global conservation. His conversational style, irreverent humour and sometimes controversial opinions make for a hugely rewarding evening’s entertainment. He tells of close shaves, the often bizarre lengths he’ll go to getting the picture and challenges people to think again about the conventions of conservation. Suitable for all ages and there is always time for questions at the end . . . so long as you don’t mind a candid or frank answer and there are sure to be a couple of poodles in there somewhere! Donations to the University of Lincoln’s new animal welfare centre are welcomed. Tickets can be booked via the University of Lincoln’s Events Office: Tel: 01522 837100 or email events@lincoln.ac.uk PA
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Come along and vote for your favourite play - the winning playwright will have the chance to work with our creative team on developing their script further and may be invited back for a full staged reading. Whether you’re a new writer, established playwright or looking for feedback on your script... we want you and ten minutes of your script. Please send your extract along with your name and contact details to scriptthis@lincoln.ac.uk for consideration by 19 February.
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RUDRA Thursday 20 March 7.30pm Tickets: £12 Full // £10 Concessions // £5 Students & Under 26s Running Time: 1 hour (no interval) RUDRA reverberates... a powerful force in the shape of Shiva, transitioning between peace, disturbance, love and lament. Manasamitra resurrects Indian mythology through an exciting fusion of contemporary music and dance, reimagining the ancient for tomorrow. Choreographed by Sonia Sabri to an original musical score by Shri Sriram.
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Theatre Alibi
Hammer & Tongs By Daniel Jamieson Friday 21 March 7.30pm Tickets: £12 Full // £10 Concessions // £5 Students & Under 26s Running Time: TBC Hammer & Tongs digs deep into the human compulsion to argue the toss. From farcical fisticuffs at Nigel and Clarissa’s wedding disco to kids squabbling for control of the TV remote, Theatre Alibi presents a very human comedy - physical, funny, absurd, musical, moving and absolutely bloodyminded…
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David O’Doherty
David O’Doherty Will Try to Fix Everything Saturday 22 March 8pm Tickets: £15 Full // £13 Concessions & Students Running Time: Two hours (inc. interval) David O’Doherty: the Ryanair James Bond, the Kevin McCloud of the tiny keyboard, former Miss Ireland, the offspring of Shannon/Pete Doherty. His new look is Jaws era Steven Spielberg. Recipient of the 2008 Edinburgh Comedy Award and inventor of the last remaining swimming stroke, The Squid (on back, feet first), has written a new comedy show with both talking and songs. No Scrubs.
St Barnabas Lincolnshire Hospice
St Barnabas Strictly Ballroom “One of Britain’s most inventive companies” The Guardian “A company of enormous, curious inventiveness” The Times The Guardian (On Goucher’s War) The Guardian (On Cobbo)
Sunday 23 March 6.30pm Tickets: £10 Adult // £5 Child Returning for its 4th year is St Barnabas Lincolnshire Hospice Strictly Ballroom event! 40 of Lincolnshire’s novice dancers will be putting their best foot forward and showcasing their newly learned skills, dancing the Waltz and the Rumba - the dance of love to wow the audience and judges. It will be the audience that decides who will be crowned St Barnabas Strictly Ballroom champion, so come and support your favourite couple! If you love Strictly Come Dancing you will not be disappointed! If you’re a fan of dancing and would like further information visit www.stbarnabashospice.co.uk or contact Fundraising on (01522) 559516, becky.otter@stbarnabashospice.co.uk
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Omid Djalili
Mon 24 - Sat 29 March 2014
Wednesday 2 April 8pm Tickets: £22 All Seats Running Time: 1 hour 55 mins (inc. interval)
David Greig is one of the UK’s most vital playwrights and a prominent voice in contemporary Scottish culture as both writer, director and the first dramaturg for National Theatre Scotland. His work has been performed at the Traverse, the Royal Court, the RSC and National Theatre and internationally. This week-long retrospective of his work features finished productions, work-in-progresses, performative responses and an academic symposium on Sat 29 March.
Omid’s back on tour with a splash, following a sellout four week WestEnd residency and a soldout season at the Edinburgh Festival.
A full list of events will be announced in early spring 2014.
An Actors Touring Company, Young Vic Theatre, Brageteatret & Schauspielhaus Wien Co-Production
DAVID GREIG FESTIVAL
The Events
A firm favourite with his legendary performances, Omid’s standup awards include; ’Time Out Award’ for Best Stand Up, the ‘EMMA Award’ and was a ‘South Bank Award’ nominee as well as being a ‘Perrier Award’ nominee.
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Friday 28 & Saturday 29 March 7.30pm Tickets: £12 Full // £10 Concessions // £5 Students & Under 26s Running Time: 1 hour 30 mins (no interval) Screams echo through corridors. The sound of gunfire rings out. At Claire’s choir rehearsal, something terrible happens. David Greig’s daring new play asks how far forgiveness will stretch in the face of atrocity. Featuring a new local choir at each performance and a soaring soundtrack, The Events tells of tragedy, obsession and our destructive desire to fathom the unfathomable. “Scotsman Fringe First Award Winner” “Carol Tambor Best of Edinburgh Winner”
“Probably the finest, most important thing Greig has ever written” Daily Telegraph “A mighty play about what it is that makes us human” The Guardian
Daily Telegraph The Metro The Guardian The Times The Scotsman Financial Times Sunday Times The Independent Time Out
Box Clever
Romeo & Juliet By William Shakespeare Mon 31 March 7.30pm & Tue 1 April 10.30am & 5.30pm Tickets: £5 all seats Running Time: 1 hour (no interval) Box Clever Theatre Company come to Linccoln with their highly innovative and successful production of Shakespeare’s enduring and tragic tale of young love. The skilful intertwining of the original text with contemporary language creates a world in which the lovers and their fate speak directly to a 21st century audience. Highlighting the universal themes of love and hate, youth and age, passion and responsibility, this unique production brings Shakespeare’s story to life.
Omid was the winner of the “Best Actor” Award for his lead performance in The Infidel at the Turin Film Festival (won the previous year by Bill Murray). The Infidel also picked up a Loaded LAFTA award for “Funniest film” and Omid was short listed for “Peter Sellers Award” at the ‘London Evening Standard British Film Awards’.
“Right now, the Iranian Djalili is probably one of the most subversive, let alone funniest, comedians around” The Guardian
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The Lincoln Company Saturday 5 April 7.30pm Tickets: £10 Full // £8 Concessions // £5 Students & Under 26s Running Time: 2 hours 30 mins (inc. interval) After two successful years of brilliant variety V14 is back at Lincoln Performing Arts Centre this spring, featuring non-stop entertainment from dancers, singers, comedians and much more. Profits from this production will go to Cancer Research UK. So come along to a grand evening of star talent and support a great charity.
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Friday 11 April 7.30pm Tickets: £19.50 All Seats Running Time: 2 hours 40 mins (inc. interval) Following a sold-out 2012 tour, three Olivier Award nominations and over 10 million YouTube hits for Cheap Flights (their infamous anthem to budget air travel), Dillie Keane, Adele Anderson and Liza Pulman celebrate 30 years of Fascinating Aïda with a brand new show. Expect topical new songs hot off the press, plus some outrageous old favourites, as Fascinating Aïda continue to grow old disgracefully!
The Times Mail on Sunday Metro Telegraph The Guardian “See them before you die otherwise your life will have been meaningless” Mail on Sunday
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Commuter Jazz Cabaret Saturday 12 April 7.30pm Tickets: £12 Full // £10 Concessions // £5 Students & Concessions Running Time: 2 hours 30 mins (inc. interval) Lincoln Performing Arts Centre’s regular Friday sessions have become the stuff of legend! This Spring our intrepid jazzers take over the auditorium for a night of trad, smooth, swing and laidback Bosa. With a menu of freshly prepared tapas, a complimentary glass of wine with every ticket and a warm cabaret atmosphere, this is the ideal Easter chill out. We’ll be revealing the full line-up and headline act soon, so check out our website for more details.
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An Evening With… Pam Ayres Sunday 13 April 7.30pm Tickets: £21 All Seats Running Time: 2 hours 10 mins (inc. interval) Pam Ayres brings her latest show to Lincoln following the recent publication of her new book of poetry, You Made Me Late Again!, copies of which she will be signing after the show. Pam’s work is renowned for being funny, and approachable, with hair-trigger timing, an eye for the detail of the everyday, and the absurdity of life. Pam Ayres has sold millions of books, CDs, and DVDs and is a regular on TV and Radio, on programmes such as Just A Minute, Ayres On The Air, QI, Countdown, and The One Show.
“Pam Ayres has an incredible way with an audience”. The York Press
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Hiccup Theatre
Lincoln Performing Arts Centre, Lincoln Drill Hall and The Collection have come together to present a fabulous week of arts events and activities for children across the city, bringing together some of the very best theatre, dance, workshops, films and music available for children and families! The full programme will be announced in February, but our events will include:
Fri 11 April: Lil’ Pacs – creative play and storytelling for the Under 5s Mon 14 April: Meeting Mr Boom! by Darren Ellis Dance Weds 16 April: Pinocchio by Hiccup Theatre written by Michael Rosen And plenty of events at the Drill Hall including a family concert by the Busch Ensemble, and a Diddy Disco alongside Family Workshop Days at The Collection. To find out more, keep checking our website, Facebook and Twitter accounts and look out for the mini brochure in February.
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A new version by Michael Rosen Wednesday 16 April 3pm Tickets: £10 Adults // £8 Child // £25 Family Ticket (4 people, max 2 adults) Running Time: 55 mins (no interval) Follow Pinocchio and his grasshopper friend as they set out on an adventure – to find some fun! Now... if only his nose would just stay still! Hiccup Theatre join forces with acclaimed children’s writer Michael Rosen (We’re Going on a Bear Hunt) to bring to life a sparkling new version of this classic tale. Live music, puppetry, physical storytelling and longer and longer noses combine in a magical combination for children and their grown ups.
Darren Ellis Dance & Ronen Kozokaro
Monday 14 April 1.30pm & 3pm Tickets: £5 all seats Running Time: 50 mins (including free playtime on set)
“Absorbing, exciting, inventive and wonderfully creative” The Stage (on The Owl and the Pussycat) AGE 3+
An out of this world new live music and dance by Darren Ellis and Ronen Kozokara. A show that will inflate before your eyes taking you on a journey of discovery, creating a new world but who knows what we might find in this magical bouncy land? A fun filled show for all the family performed on an inflatable set
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International Concert Series
Endellion Quartet Sunday 4 May 3pm Tickets: £16 Full // £14 Concessions // £5 Students & Under 26s Running Time: 1 hour 50 mins (inc. interval) 26 FRANKFURT presents
Foreplay Friday 25 April 7.30pm Tickets: £12 Full // £10 Concessions // £5 Students & Under 26s Running Time: TBC The world premiere of the latest play by the scientist-playwright Carl Djerassi, the man whose ‘invention’ of the contraceptive pill changed the world forever. Set in the 1960s, the play focuses on the professional and sexual jealousies of Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno, all intellectual giants of the first half of the 20th century.
The Endellion String Quartet is renowned as one of the finest quartets in the world and is entering its thirty-fourth year. Recent and future engagements include concerts in Eire, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Holland, Mexico, India, the USA and Canada. In Britain, the Quartet has appeared at nearly all of the major series and festivals and has broadcast many times on BBC radio and television.
Haydn – Quartet Op.50 No.3 Beethoven – Quartet Op.135 Schubert – Quartet in D minor “Death and the Maiden”
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The Big Chris Barber Band Saturday 17 May 7.30pm Tickets: £20 all seats Running Time: TBC Jazz Legend, Chris Barber, celebrates his 65th Anniversary as band-leader in 2014 with a Europewide concert tour. Chris formed his first Band in 1949 at the age of nineteen and has since gone on to become not only Europe’s most successful and influential bandleaders, but a bona fide jazz legend. With his 10-piece band, featuring a 7-strong front line, Chris plays a selection of his favourite music: from his roots in New Orleans style in ‘Bourbon Street Parade’ to the early music of Duke Ellington and Sidney Bechet ... before going back to ‘When the Saints’! The Big Chris Barber Band combine all these ingredients into an exciting and moving evening of world-class jazz.
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lspa Lincoln School Of Performing Arts
Performance Fortnight & Final Degree Shows 5 May – 31 May This is just a taste of the exciting performance currently in development by LSPA students. A full brochure of events will be released later in Spring 2014 and on our website www.lpac.co.uk
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This series of works by second year students offers a diverse mix of performance taking place in and responding to sites across Lincoln. Utilising text, movement, narrative and pervasive media to tell the stories of places that we know, think we know or have never noticed before.
Spring Dance Concerts Join us for our programme of dance, created and performed by the dance students at University of Lincoln. These works include new choreography by international artists and contemporary repertory performed by Lincoln School of Performing Arts undergraduates. We’ll also be presenting student created work, ranging from studio showings of scores, to concert dance, to third year final performance work, as well as performances by the MA Choreography students.
Multimedia A programme of crossdisciplinary, multi-media performances that embraces the potential of technologies new and old across all art forms. These works effortlessly ignore disciplinary boundaries and labels to present a truly experimental and investigatory approach.
SOLO PERFORMANCE A mini-festival of solo theatre. From comedy and monologue to lecture demonstration and one-on-one performance, these final degree shows offer you the chance to indulge in an eclectic, mix-and-match programme over a jam packed week of glorious, decadent, unforgettable performance.
Theatre Company Join us as our graduating companies take complete control of the venue to produce a series of full-length performances. With a diverse mix of theatre and performance on offer, this degree- showcase promises to produce some unforgettable moments conceived and created by the next generation of theatre makers.
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Mon 2 – Sat 7 June 7.30pm & Saturday Matinee 2.30pm Tickets: £15 Full // £12 Concessions // £10 All Seats on Monday 2 June LAODS Productions are returning to the venue with this classic comedic musical featuring hit numbers such as ‘Anything Goes’, ‘You’re the Top’ and ‘I Get a Kick Out of You’. Set aboard an ocean liner bound from New York to London, madcap antics ensue for stowaway Billy in his pursuit of heiress Hope Harcourt. Evangelist and Nightclub singer, Reno teams up with Public Enemy #13, Moonface Martin, to help Billy in his quest to break Hope’s engagement to the wealthy Lord Evelyn Oakleigh.
Script This Wednesday 11 June 6.30pm Tickets: Free (Book In Advance) Running Time: 2 hours (inc. interval) An evening of rehearsed readings of new plays curated by Lincoln Performing Arts Centre and given the professional treatment by a director and a team of actors. Come along and vote for your favourite play - the winning playwright will have the chance to work with our creative team on developing their script further and may be invited back for a full staged reading. Whether you’re a new writer, established playwright or looking for feedback on your script...we want you and ten minutes of your script. Please send your extract along with your name and contact details to scriptthis@lincoln.ac.uk for consideration by 11 May 2014.
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“Catch them if you can” The Dancing Times
Abigail’s Party Tuesday 10 June 7.30pm Tickets: £10 // £8 Concessions // £5 Students & Under 26s Running Time: 2 hours (inc. interval)
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Mike Leigh’s play became an instant classic when it first appeared in 1977 with its darkly comic setting of Essex nouveau-riche couples meeting up for a polite soirée while teenage punk Abigail gets her own party started a few doors down the road. While husband Laurence struggles to deal with his ever-demanding clients, his monstrous wife Beverly holds court in a sardonic and seductive tale of bitterness and savage recriminations set to the sound of Demis Roussos.
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Beauty And The Beast Sunday 22 June 7.30pm Tickets: £16 Full // £14 Concessions // £10 Students and Under 26s Running Time: 1 hour 50 mins (inc. interval) Award-winning Ballet Cymru (formerly Independent Ballet Wales) return to Lincoln with their sparkling and refreshing ballet based on the classic fairy tale of Beauty and the Beast. A ruined merchant, lost and desperate in a deep forest; an exquisite garden by a magical palace; an enchanted Beast, furious and lonely; a promise to the merchant’s youngest daughter, Beauty, of a perfect red rose. The scene is set for the greatest love story ever told…
An amateur production by arrangement with Samuel French Ltd
Ballet Cymru bring to life this timeless story using the company’s unique blend of classical ballet technique and storytelling and featuring stunning costumes, breathtaking choreography and heartbreaking passion – this production is the most thrilling and entertaining dance event of the year.
BOX OFFICE: 01522 837600 // www.lpac.co.uk MA Promotions
Love Changes Everything
The Lincoln Company
Friday 27 June 7.30pm Tickets: £18.50 Full // £17 Concessions Running Time: 2 hours 30 mins (inc. interval) Celebrating The Music Of Michael Ball. So you missed Michael Ball in concert? Don’t panic! You now have the chance to see this spectacular salute to the music of Michael Ball in this wonderful one night concert. Join Michael Courtney and his live band in celebrating the greatest hits of Michael Ball.
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This two-hour show is brought to you by one of the UK’s finest singers and guest artists. From ‘One Step Out Of Time’ and ‘This Is The Moment’ to the stirring songs of ‘Les Miserables’. Songs from many artists including – Neil Diamond, Bruce Springsteen and Billy Joel. Classics such as ‘Holding Out For A Hero’, ‘Something Inside So Strong’, ‘Winner Takes It All’, ‘One Night Only’, ‘Since You’ve Been Gone’ ... and the song that shot Michael Ball to fame ‘Love Changes Everything’ ... Something for everyone! “Michael Courtney is Superb! A real ringmaster of an entertainer” The Stage
Jazzpac/EMJazz/FLINSO present
The Zoe Rahman Quartet & The Jazz Vehicle Youth Jazz Orchestra
Friday 12 – Wednesday 24 December 2014 Tickets: From £10* Running Time: 2 hours (inc. interval) Following the success of 2013’s The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe this year we’re taking a trip to Wonderland. It’s Christmas Eve and a very curious Alice tumbles into a strange world caught in the clutches of the cruel Jack Frost. With the help of her newfound friends, including the Mad Hatter and the Cheshire Cat, Alice embarks on a madcap adventure full of talking animals, magical potions and tea parties in order to find the white rabbit, defeat Jack Frost and get back home in time for Christmas! Packed with music, songs and laughter and performed ‘in-the-round’ – placing the audience at the heart of the action – this show will enchant the whole family this Christmas. Don’t be late!
Friday 4 July 7.30pm Tickets £10 Full // £8 Concessions // Students and Children Free Entry (children to be accompanied by a paying adult) Running Time: TBC A special evening to celebrate the conclusion of Jazzpac’s ‘Miles Ahead’ project, which has engaged young musicians and youth orchestras across Lincolnshire and led by 2012 Mobo award winner, pianist Zoe Rahman. Since the beginning of 2013 Zoe has been working with Jazz Vehicle Youth Jazz Orchestra, so expect the Orchestra to come refreshed and playing better than ever. Zoe will also showcase her own Quartet bringing a unique mix of contemporary jazz flavoured with her Bengali and Irish roots. Idris Rahman – clarinet, Alec Dankworth – double bass and Gene Calderazzo – drums, complete this splendid line-up. Come early (5pm-7pm) and catch young musicians from across the county showcasing their music in live JazzJam in Zing Café Bar.
*see website for full show list and ticket prices.
Get your Early Bird Ticket Today £10 off Family Tickets if you Book and pay before 1 August
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SPRING/SUMMER 2014
Sat 17 May
Sun 26 Jan
THE BIG CHRIS BARBER BAND
VIENNA MOZART TRIO
Thurs 20 March
Wed 2 April
Mon 5 May - Fri 31 May
COURTNEY PINE: HOUSE OF LEGENDS TOUR
Sat 5 April
Mon 2 - Sat 7 June
RE:GENERATION FESTIVAL inc. GHOST TOWN
Fri 11 April
Thurs 30 Jan
RUDRA
THE TRILOGY
OMID DJALILI
LSPA Degree Shows
Fri 21 March Sat 1 Feb
ENCORE: THE SHOW TUNES STRIKE BACK!
Thurs 6 Feb
Ours Was The Fen Country
Sat 22 Feb
HAMMER & TONGS V14
FASCINATING AÏDA: CHARM OFFENSIVE
Thurs 27 & Fri 28 Feb
ANYTHING GOES
Tue 10 June
ABIGAIL’S PARTY
Fri 7 Feb TAKE ME OUT
Sat 8 Feb
DANCE FACTOR 2014
Wed 12 March CARAMEL
Sat 22 March
Sun 23 March
ST BARNABAS STRICTLY BALLROOM
Thurs 13 Feb
HISTORY BOYS
Fri 14 Feb
FULL FRONTAL NERDITY
THE BIBLE: COMPLETE WORD OF GOD (ABRIDGED)
MARTIN ROSCOE, PIANO
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Sat 12 April
COMMUTER JAZZ CABARET
Sun 13 April
Fri 14 March
Sun 16 March
Wed 11 June
DAVID O’DOHERTY WILL TRY TO FIX EVERYTHING
Fri 28 & Sat 29 March THE EVENTS
AN EVENING WITH… PAM AYRES
Sun 22 June
Fri 11 April - Wed 16 April
Fri 27 June
EASTIVAL inc. Pinocchio Wed 16 April
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
LOVE CHANGES EVERYTHING
Fri 4 July Sun 16 Feb
YUKA ISHIZUKA, VIOLIN, RIYAD NICOLAS, PIANO
Tue 18 March
Thurs 20 Feb
Wed 19 March
BANANAS IN PYJAMAS
Fri 25 April
CHRIS PACKHAM
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FOREPLAY
Mon 31 March & Tue 1 April
ROMEO & JULIET
Sun 4 May
ENDELLION QUARTET
THE ZOE RAHMAN QUARTET & THE JAZZ VEHICLE YOUTH JAZZ ORCHESTRA