COMEDY: Richard Herring

Richard Herring - Hitler Moustache.

Reclaiming Chaplin’s moustache for comedy, the star of The Headmaster’s Son and 90s double act Lee and Herring muses on iconography, whether racists are closer than Liberals to believing that all people are the same and why an innocent square inch of facial hair has taken the blame for Nazism.

“A beautifully crafted and thought-provoking show”. **** Sunday Telegraph.

“Superbly constructed and wickedly clever.” The Observer

“Stimulating, passionate and thoroughly entertaining.” **** The Times.

www.richardherring.com



Ticket Prices: £12.50

Time: Doors 7pm Performance Begins 8pm



For those 16 years and older

COMEDY: Fascinating Aida

HAPPY BIRTHDAY FASCINATING AIDA!

Britain’s top female comedy trio are 25 years old. Well, actually, they’re older than that (Dillie Keane formed FA in 1983), but the girls have decided their Silver Jubilee can be celebrated for a few more years at least.
For those of you who thought they’d retired, this isn’t a comeback; it’s a chance for you to help them celebrate this auspicious birthday. They’re doing it for the fun, not the money, which will soon be worthless anyway.
Dillie, Adele and Liza look forward to entertaining you with some new songs. Thrill to the beauty of the harmonies, marvel at the intricate rhymes and, if you’re one of their older fans, remember to switch your hearing aid to the theatre’s loop system to avoid unpleasant whistling.

“THEY ARE MORE THAN EVER QUITE IRRESISTIBLE...SIMPLY HILARIOUS” News of the World

“ONE OF THE MOST EXQUISITELY POLISHED SHOWS YOU ARE EVER LIKELY TO SEE” Financial Times

“THE GLAMOUR IS MAGNETIC, THE SATIRE RAZOR-SHARP, THE LYRICS BRILLIANT...INTENSELY POIGNANT” The Guardian

“HILARIOUS, FUNNY AND FILTHILY RUDE” Daily Telegraph

“SAVOR THE STRONG OPINIONS AND SHARP WITS THAT STILL MAKE FOR TOP-NOTCH ENTERTAINMENT” New York Times

"SEE THEM BEFORE YOU DIE OTHERWISE YOUR LIFE WILL HAVE BEEN MEANINGLESS" Mail on Sunday


Ticket Prices: £10 Full Price / £7 Concessions

Time: Doors 7pm Performance Begins 8pm



No age restriction in place

International Piano Series: Jin Ju

Czerny Variations on 'La Ricordanza' Op 33
Schumann Fantasy in C major Op17
Chopin Barcarolle Op 60, Scherzo No 4 Op 54, Nocturne in E flat Op 55 No 2 & Ballade No 4 in F minor Op 52

Jin Ju was 3rd Prize-winner at the 2002 Tchaikovsky Piano Competition where her thrilling playing brought comparisons with Martha Argerich. Intense musicality and passionate commitment characterise her performances of the romantic repertoire and this should secure a very special account of Schumann's Fantasy. Her Chopin group consists entirely of some of his last and greatest works.

Ticket Prices: £15 (£12)

Time: Performance 4:00pm

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Film: Adaptation

Frequently cynical screenwriter Charlie Kaufman has just taken on a new assignment. That is, to adapt writer Susan Orlean's "The Orchid Thief" into a screenplay, all of it based on the life of the eccentric John Laroche, an exotic plant collector based out of Florida. While his easygoing twin brother Donald, is writing scripts with ease, Charlie finds himself on a perpetual struggle that never seems to end.

Ticket Prices: Tickets £3

Time: Screening Begins 7pm



Certificate 15

DRAMA: 2010 A Space Oddity

Company Gavin Robertson & BEX Productions in Association with makin projects

“2010: A Space Oddity” takes us into the world of science fiction, cult movies, and spoof!

From Company Gavin Robertson - following recent tours of ‘Spittoon’ (“Theatre at its brilliant best” The Guardian) … and ‘A Grimm World’ (“literally never a dull moment “Time Out”)... comes a brand new physical COMEDY !
Teaming up with Jonathan Bex (‘Don Carlos’ [West End] and RSC), “2010: A Space Oddity” is every space movie you’ve ever seen in an hour and a bit!

Two men are trapped in a kitchen in a HAL of their own devising…. Together they rage against the machine that rules their existence. Arthur C. Clarke is nowhere on the horizon …and in space, no-one can eat ice cream!

Two men, one kitchen, and every cliché under the sun:
‘My God –it’s full of stars!” (well… two actors and a fridge anyway!)

www.gavinrobertson.com


Ticket Prices: £10 Full Price / £7 Concessions

Time: Doors 7pm Performance Begins 8pm



For those 8 years and older

DRAMA: Neon Youth Theatre : No Place Like Home

Zest Creative Arts present
Neon Youth Theatre
in
No Place Like Home
Hillside Close is just like any other street. But when a series of incidents forces the neighbourhood together they realise that home is much more than just bricks and mortar.

After last year’s sell out production of Four Stories High, Neon Youth Theatre is back with another original production. No Place Like Home is a musical play; produced, written and performed by the young talent from Lincoln’s most innovative and creative youth theatre.

Lincoln Performing Arts Centre
ALL TICKETS FREE! From the Engine Shed and LPAC Box Office.
Tickets £1 per ticket for online and telephone bookings

www.zestcreativearts.org.uk

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Time: Doors 6:30pm Performance Begins 7:30pm



Parental Guidance Advised 11 years and over

International Concert Series: Pacifica String Quartet, USA with Graham Oppenheimer, viola

Beethoven Quartet in B flat Op 18 No 6
Prokofiev Quartet No 2 in F major Op 92
Brahms String Quintet in G major Op 111

The Pacificas are establishing a position as one of the worlds leading and freshest quartets. During 2009 they have been voted a Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performancec and Musical America 2009 Ensemble of the Year.

Ticket Prices: £15 (£12)

Time: Performance 4:00pm

Tickets on sale July 6th 10am

Film: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

A man awakes dishevelled; impulsively, he skips work, heading instead to the shore. On this chilly February day, a woman in orange, hair dyed blue, chats him up: she's Clementine, he's Joel, shy and sad; by day's end, he likes her. Strange things occur: their meeting was not entirely chance, they have a history neither remembers.

Ticket Prices: Tickets £3

Time: Screening Begins 7pm



Certificate 15

DANCE: Shobana Jeyasingh Dance Company present: Just Add Water

Our current love affair with all things culinary gets a unique spin from top UK choreographer Shobana Jeyasingh in her latest full-length dance piece. In a world where differences between people can cause friction, Just Add Water? reminds us that cross-cultural eating is one of the true success stories of our time. Can Jeyasingh cook up a dance recipe that will give us a formula for survival in 21st century Britain?

Six exceptional dancers add their hard-won memories of home cooking in a shifting world to create a beguiling contemporary dance work that includes a score by Orlando Gough and text by performer and writer Rani Moorthy.

“Just Add Water? proves to be an elegant and engrossing hour-long experience...you’re gripped throughout by the magnificently supple and sinuous dancing” Mail on Sunday

“Sharp, original and quietly acerbic, yet delivered with a smile and great charm…the combination of Jeyasingh's conviction and her track record inspires confidence.” The Daily Telegraph

For a taste of the show go to
www.shobanajeyasingh.co.uk/justaddwater

Ticket Prices: £10 Full Price / £7 Concessions

Time: Doors 7pm Performance Begins 8pm



No age restriction in place

COMEDY: Chris Addison

At last! Mr. Chris Addison off Bafta Award-winning comedy The Thick of It, In The Loop, Skins and Lab Rats is back with a brand new show of his critically acclaimed stand-up. Daftness! Whimsy! Jokes! Lies! Smartarsery! Flapping about! All present and correct.

“The best stand-up I’ve seen.” The Observer

“He’s brilliant. No question.” The Times

“Downright hilarious. His stories reduced a packed crowd to tears of helpless laughter.” The Sunday Times

www.chrisaddison.co.uk


Ticket Prices: £15 Full Price

Time: Doors 7pm Performance Begins 8pm



Parental Advisory, Contains Strong Language and Adult Themes.

Children's Film: Beauty and the Beast

Belle is a girl full of life who is couped up in a small town where she lives with her father. A wrong turn taken by Maurice, Belle's father, leads Belle’s life to turn upside down as she meets the Beast and has the adventure of a life time.

Ticket Prices: Tickets £3

Time: Screening Begins 2pm



Certificate U

DRAMA: Sherlock Holmes...the Death and Life.

Roger Llewellyn in
SHERLOCK HOLMES… the Death and Life.

In this wryly humorous tale, of murder, mystery & the occult.....’the world's greatest detective refuses to leave the stage!’
‘A fantasy based upon a fiction’, finds Conan Doyle tiring of his ‘intolerably arrogant Sherlock Holmes’, and inventing the malevolent Moriarty, to dispose of him.
But Doyle's dangerous strategy, combined with his passion for raising the spirits of the dead, has rather more surreal and dramatic consequences than he bargains for!
After his international success in ‘Sherlock Holmes.... the last act!’
Roger Llewellyn returns in this spine tingling new play, written by David Stuart Davies, and directed by Gareth Armstrong with original music by Simon Slater.

SHERLOCK HOLMES... the Death and Life is produced and presented by makin projects in association with Guildford's Yvonne Arnaud Theatre.


Ticket Prices: £10 Full Price / £7 Concessions

Time: Doors 7pm Performance Begins 8pm



For those 10 years and older.

DRAMA: The Caretaker

THE CARETAKER
by Harold Pinter

“One of the 20th century's great plays, a tragic comedy of stunning individuality” Daily Mail

Davies, an elderly drifter, is given shelter by the kindly but vulnerable Aston. He quickly makes himself at home in the squalid, junk-filled attic, but an uneasy peace is fractured by the arrival of Mick, Aston’s quick-witted, streetwise younger brother. As the shadows lengthen and the three men reveal more about the past and themselves, a battle of wits begins that will have irrevocable consequences for them all.

A landmark of twentieth century theatre, The Caretaker was first performed at The Arts Theatre, London in 1960. Fifty years on, Pinter’s compelling study of loneliness and power games still has the capacity to amuse, to shock and to fascinate.

Playwright, director, actor, poet and political activist, Harold Pinter was born on 10 October 1930 in East London. He wrote twenty-nine plays including The Birthday Party, Old Times, The Homecoming and Betrayal. In 2005, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He died on Christmas Eve 2008.

London Classic Theatre first produced The Caretaker in 2004. The tour was both a critical and commercial success and this revival will be the centrepiece of their tenth anniversary year.


Ticket Prices: £10 Full Price / £7 Concessions

Time: Doors 7pm Performance Begins 8pm



For those 14 years and older

International Piano Series: Martin Roscoe & Ashley Wass

Schubert four hands -
Allegro in A minor D 947 'Lebensturme'
Rondo in A D 951
Fantasy in F minor D 940
Grand Duo in C D 812

Lincolnshire-born Ashley Wass is now widely regarded as one of Britain's leading pianists. He joins forces with Martin Roscoe for an entire evening of Schubert masterpieces for one piano, four hands. The majestic Grand Duo is a huge symphonic work using an orchestral range of colour, while the charming Rondo and heart-wrenching Fantasy (Schubert's most well-known work for this medium) show more intimate characteristics.

Ticket Prices: £12 (£10)

Time: Performance 4:00pm

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Film: Memento

Leonard, after suffering a blow to the head when a mystery attacker assaults his wife, has no short-term memory. He's looking for his wife's killer, compensating for his disability by taking Polaroids, annotating them and tattooing important facts on his body. We meet the loquacious Teddy and the seductive Natalie (a barmaid who promises to help) and we glimpse Leonard's wife through memories from before the assault. Leonard also talks about Sammy Jankis, a man he knew with a similar condition. Has Leonard found the killer? Who's manipulating whom?

Ticket Prices: Tickets £3

Time: Screening Begins 7pm



Certificate 15

DRAMA: SUS

by Barrie Keeffe

The 'SUS' laws made it legal for police to stop and search anyone - purely on suspicion.

Election night 1979.

Two detectives on the graveyard shift in an East London police station place bets on which party will win.

A black man is picked up at his local pub. He is incensed, believing that he'll be fodder for an incoming government keen to flex its law-and-order muscles.

Sus is a powerful cry against institutional racism. Set on the eve of the Thatcher election victory, this revival coincides with the general election of 2010.

Direction Gbolahan Obisesan

Originally produced at the Young Vic as part of the Jerwood Directors Award 2008


Ticket Prices: £10 Full Price / £7 Concessions

Time: Doors 7pm Performance Begins 8pm

Please note this performance is in the round and limited to 100 seats per event.

Parental Advisory, Contains Adult Themes.

DANCE: 5 Soldiers - The Body is the Frontline

5 SOLDIERS is a timely, controversial, thought provoking and moving exploration of war in modern times. A dance theatre work with four male and one female dancers, it looks at how the human body is essential to, and used in, warfare. 5 SOLDIERS explores the physical training that prepares you for war, as well as the possible effects on the body, and the injury caused by warfare.

Featuring Kay’s trademark intense physicality and athleticism, 5 SOLDIERS uses interviews with current and former soldiers to weave a story of physical transformation, helping us understand how soldiers are made and how war affects them.

5 SOLDIERS is a unique collaboration between award winning choreographer Rosie Kay, visual artist David Cotterrell and theatre director Walter Meierjohann. It follows an intense period of research, where Rosie learnt battle training with The 4th Battalion The Rifles and David spent time in Helmand Province with the Joint Forces Medical Group. The piece has an original sound score by Annie Mahtani and dramaturgy by Petra Tauscher.

“Rosie Kay, one of our more enterprising young choreographers…
Kay’s choreography is a strenuously sensual marriage of polished recklessness splattered with lascivious amusements.”
The Times October 30

Ticket Prices: £10 Full Price / £7 Concessions

Time: Doors 7pm Performance Begins 8pm



No age restriction in place

Children's Film: The Princess Bride

A kindly grandfather sits down with his grandson and reads him a bedtime story, as he reads the story, the action comes alive. The story is a classic tale of love and adventure as the beautiful Buttercup is kidnapped and held against her will in order to marry the odious Prince Humperdinck, and Westley (her childhood beau, now returned as the Dread Pirate Roberts) attempts to save her.

Ticket Prices: Tickets £3

Time: Screening Begins 2pm



Certificate PG

DANCE: New English Contemporary Ballet CANCELLED

DUE TO CIRCUMSTANCES OUTSIDE OF THE VENUES CONTROL THE FORTHCOMING PERFORMANCE OF THE NEW ENGLISH CONTEMPORARY BALLET'S 2010 TOUR HAS BEEN CANCELLED. WE APOLOGISE FOR ANY INCONVENIENCE CAUSED AND TICKETS ARE AVAILABLE FOR REFUND FROM YOUR POINT OF PURCHASE.

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International Concert Series: Northern Sinfonia with Olli Mustonen, piano/conductor

All Mozart programme -
Overture to The Marriage of Figaro
Piano Concerto No 21 in C major K 467
Symphony No 40 in G minor K 550

Olli Mustonen has a unique place on today's music scene. As a pianist, he has challenged and fascinated audiences throughout Europe and America with his brilliant technique and startling originality, and he is now much in demand as an exciting conductor. The Northern Sinfonia are based at The Sage in Newcastle, an exciting cutting edge venue for one of the worlds leading chamber orchestras. They perform in Lincoln for the first time.

Ticket Prices: £15 (or £12 concessions)

Time: Performance 4:00pm

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Film: Mulholland Drive

After a brutal car accident, Rita wanders into a strangers apartment, where story strangely intertwines with Betty Elms, a perky young woman in search of stardom. Betty is intrigued by Rita's situation and is willing to put aside her dreams to pursue this mystery. The two women soon discover that nothing is as it seems in the city of dreams.

Ticket Prices: Tickets £3

Time: Screening Begins 7pm



Certificate 15

DRAMA: HULL TRUCK THEATRE COMPANY Present: Men of the World.

written by BAFTA Award winning John Godber

Join Stick, Frank and Happy Larry (two men and a woman!) as they embark on another coach journey down the Rhine Valley….these long suffering drivers have seen it all and done it all! Travel with them to Paris with thirty old age pensioners, search for lost teeth in Koblenz, witness love affairs in Boppard and finally after a four-day ‘Umpah’ party make the long journey back.
Funny, sad and cinematic you’ll be amazed as Stick, Frank and Happy Larry play many of the pensioners in a total evocation of a bus trip.
Touching, funny and provoking comedy written by one of the nation’s leading comedy playwrights who has written over 50 plays!

“This portrayal of the microcosmic world of coach travel, which purports to be filled with holiday ‘fun’ is utterly hilarious” Manchester On Stage

“This is a touching and funny celebration of one of society’s marginalized sectors” The Yorkshire Post

“The play has been described as “Bouncers for the crinklies” Hull Daily Mail

“A funny, poignant, fascinating play that explores the old holidaymakers’ concerns with swelling feet, sitting over the coach wheel, food, flatulence, drinking and sex. Try it, it’s scary.” Hull Daily Mail


Ticket Prices: £10 Full Price / £7 Concessions

Time: Doors 7pm Performance Begins 8pm



For those 15 years and older.

Children's Film: Finding Nemo

When his son, Nemo is taken from him by a diver, Marlin the clown fish sets off on a journey to rescue him. Together with Dory, a blue tang fish with short term memory loss, they set off through the oceans, whilst joining a club with sharks, dodging jellyfish and hooking a ride with turtles along the way…

Ticket Prices: Tickets £3

Time: Screening Begins 2pm



Certificate U

DRAMA: Bombers Moon

BY WILLIAM IVORY

Directed by Matt Aston

From the writer of The Retirement of Tom Stevens, Bomber’s Moon is a love story. Told through the unflinching eyes of an octogenarian misanthrope, it unravels a war time miracle and a modern day tragedy, to reveal the true nature of Faith.

Bomber’s Moon was presented at Lakeside Arts Centre as a rehearsed reading in June 2009 and has since been developed into a full Lakeside production.


Ticket Prices: £10 Full Price / £7 Concessions

Time: Doors 7pm Performance Begins 8pm Matinee Performance Doors 1pm Performance Begins 2pm.



16 years and over: Contains Strong and Explicit Language

Children's Film: The Secret Garden

A young British girl born in India loses her neglectful parents in an earthquake. Returned to England to live at her uncle's castle she discovers a garden that has been locked away after the death of her aunt. Aided by one of the servants' boys, she begins restoring the garden, and discovering some other secrets of the manor.

Ticket Prices: Tickets £3

Time: Screening Begins 2pm



Certificate U

International Concert Series: Dame Felicity Lott & Roger Vignoles

"ENTENTE CORDIALE" a French/English evening of song and entertainment

Dame Felicity Lott, universally known as "Flott", has sung at most of the major opera houses and venues throughout the world. She joins forces with international accompanist Roger Vignoles to present a tuneful and entertaining selection of songs and melodies by Debussy, Poulenc, Offenbach, Quilter, Noel Coward and Richard Rodgers.


Ticket Prices: £15 (or £12 concessions)

Time: Performance 4:00pm

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Tom Crouch, My Arm

The University of Lincoln's conference 'What Happens Now: 21st Century Writing in English - the first Decade' is hosting a rare performance of Tim Crouch's first play, my arm, which premiered at the Traverse theatre in 2003.
“At the age of 10, for want of anything more meaningful to do, I put my arm above my head and kept it there. Now, thirty years on, I’m so full of meaning it’s killing me.”
My Arm is the story of an empty gesture. It’s the confession of a man who has lived for thirty years by the courage of his lack of conviction. In that process he’s become a celebrated medical specimen and an icon of the New York art scene.
His story is told through a combination of live performance, digital film and the animation of everyday objects supplied by the audience before each performance. Above all, My Arm is an extraordinary piece of theatre about modern art, bloody-mindedness and how the things we do when we’re ten stick with us for life. It’s beautifully written: simple, honest, intimate and painfully funny.
My Arm opened to universal acclaim at the Traverse Theatre during the Edinburgh Festival 2003. Since then it has toured the world, both independently and with the British Council. The BBC Radio 3 production (directed by Toby Swift with sound by Chris Dorley Brown and performed by Tim Crouch and Owen Crouch) won a 2006 Prix Italia for Best Adaptation in the Radio Drama category.
Reviews:
"… Crouch is the most engaging of performers, and he is actually exploring on stage the nature of art and performance itself, taking risks in the process…At these moments, Crouch is armed and dangerous." The Guardian (Lyn Gardner) 2/8/03
"… oddly compelling…curiously hypnotic. The use of home-movie footage is almost unbearably touching. Creeping up on your emotions, the show becomes an elegy for lost childhood, while deconstructing the ways we mythologise our past." Daily Telegraph (Dominic Cavendish) 12/8/03


Ticket Prices: £8 Full Price £6 Concessions

Time: Doors 6pm Performance 7pm

Carol Ann Duffy, Poetry Reading

Carol Ann Duffy, Poet Laureate, will give a reading of her work followed by a Q and A session and booksigning.

Carol Ann Duffy is the first female Poet Laureate, and has been for three decades the major public poet of our times in this country. She has written on a wide variety of themes with extraordinary inventiveness and vigour. Her work has been widely anthologized and is frequently included on school and university syllabuses. This event is part of the University of Lincoln's conference on contemporary literature: 'What Happens Now: 21st Century Writing in English -the first decade.'


Ticket Prices: £10 Full Price / £8 Concessions

Time: Doors 5pm Performance 6pm

Will Self, Book Reading and Q&A

This Event is to be held at the Jackson Lecture Theatre in the Main Admin Building on the University of Lincoln Brayford Campus.

Will Self, author of How the Dead Live, Psychogeography, The Book of Dave, The Butt, The Undivided Self and many others will give a reading of his work followed by a Q and A session on his own work, and on writing in the 21st century.

Will Self has been one of the leading British writers of our time since the early 1990s when Cock and Bull and the stories of The Quantity Theory of Insanity first gave his writing its strange and edgy reputation. His work is characterized by the playfulness with which it takes on the darkest and most disturbing possibilities. Recently his interventions in the media have made him one of that rare and much missed British species, a public intellectual. This event is part of the University of Lincoln's conference on contemporary literature: 'What Happens Now: 21st Century Writing in English -the first decade.'


Ticket Prices: All Tickets £5

Time: Perforamnce Begins 2pm

This Event is to be held at the Jackson Lecture Theatre in the Main Admin Building on the University of Lincoln Brayford Campus.