Tuesday 3 March

Hull Truck Theatre Company

Beef by John Godber

Dave Cookson was trapped in his own physique, pin toed, and narrow shouldered with a sunken chest. But he wanted to be somebody, he wanted a body that women would fight over and men would envy. Now Dave is 17 stone of rippling muscle, but he still hasn’t got a girlfriend. He’s a walking time bomb, a danger to all he surveys. He got the body he wanted, but now he’s losing his mind in a body he can’t control.

We are delighted to welcome Hull Truck on their first visit to the Drill Hall for this funny and shocking story of revenge gone wrong in a world that doesn’t seem to make sense. Contains strong language: Recommended for Ages 15+.

www.hulltruck.co.uk

Thursday 5 March

Red Herring Comedy Club

Al Pitcher Picture Show Every day we see things we’ve never seen before, things that strike us as odd or beautiful, and things that we’ve seen so many times we don’t even notice them any more… Not Al Pitcher. His mind is constantly twisting, flipping and distorting what he sees, igniting the mundane, and for The Al Pitcher Picture show, weaving the events of his day in your town into a truly unique and hilarious one-off show. Every comic will tell you that a ‘funny thing happened on the way to the gig’, but, digital camera in hand, Al has the pictures to prove it! What will Al Pitcher make of Lincoln? There’s only one way to find out…

Carl Donnelley Winner of the 2006 Laughing Horse new act competition, the 2007 Chortle Award for best newcomer and the 2007 Leicester Mercury Comedian Of The Year.

MC Ray Peacock One of the best MC’s around. Ray hosts his own Podcast series with Ed Gamble and ‘Raji James who used to be in Eastenders but ruined it’.

Over 18s only. Acts subject to change.

Friday 6 March

with Pigeon English & Roger Watson

Grand Ceilidh

Pigeon English return to the Drill Hall for another of their popular Grand Ceilidhs. Over many years the band have developed their skills in the art of playing traditional but exciting music for dance, whilst building a national reputation for high quality acoustic music. They play old music for a new audience, giving everyone the opportunity to get up and dance. Whilst the dances are traditional, they’re also energetic, fun and suitable for everyone. Tonight they are joined by special guest Roger Watson, who has been involved in the English dance scene for four decades, playing and calling with bands such as New Victory Band, Chequered Roots and Boka Halat.

All ages and abilities welcome!

Saturday 7 March

'Things We Should've Said'

Abi Moore In Concert

Abi and her band return to the Drill Hall stage to perform songs from her brand new album, ‘Things We Should’ve Said’.

Since the success of her debut album launch back in 2006, Abi has been touring throughout the UK and internationally, and has been in great demand as a support artist, opening shows for LAU, Jim Moray, 10CC and many others. She’s also been writing, arranging and recording her new album and filming a documentary DVD about her career.

Abi blends contemporary folk, Americana, soul and pop to deliver her own distinctive and accessible sound, so why not come along to support Lincolnshire’s most prolific singer/songwriter and hear her yourself!?

www.abimoore.com

Monday 9 March

World Cinema Obsessions

(1979) 155 mins (PG)

Stalker

Our new World Cinema series on the theme of obsessions continues with the last film that the great Andrei Tarkovsky made in his native Soviet Union. A shaven-headed guide known as the Stalker escorts a writer and a scientist into a forbidden wasteland known as the Zone. Deep within is a room where all one’s wishes can be granted. But as the writer asks, “How do I know I want what I want?” Blending visual, narrative, and cinematic conventions to portray the fractured logic of the Zone, Tarkovsky conjures a universe of despair and desire in which science, rationalism, and technology must face off against love, humanism, and faith.

Tonight’s film will be screened at approximately 7.45pm, but will be preceded at 7pm by one or two interesting and relevant shorts, followed by a break for drinks. After the film, there will be the opportunity to talk about the film over drinks at the Green Dragon.

Tuesday 10 March

Lunchtime Recital

Young Performers Concert

Today’s concert will feature talented young performers who are members of Lincolnshire’s highly regarded Youth Orchestras and Bands and represent the musicians of the future. Today also marks the final recital organised by Caroline Siriwardena who has been instrumental, quite literally, in making these popular and inspiring lunchtime concerts such a success.

Wednesday 11 March

In association with Old Bakery Promotions

Jim Moray

At the age of 21 Jim Moray’s album ‘Sweet England’ had critics the world over falling over themselves to tip Moray for great things. In 2008, at the age of 26, his album ‘Low Culture’ proved those critics right! Moray’s extraordinary

musical knowledge, ability and passion has enabled him to weave a cohesive whole that links traditional song seamlessly into modern popular culture rather than discriminating between the two. Lincoln Drill Hall is delighted to welcome Jim back after his incredible performance here in 2006.

www.jimmoray.co.uk

The greatest leap forward in folk for 30 years The Daily Telegraph

The most significant musician since Bob Dylan to decide that the folk idiom is the perfect vehicle for his musical adventures Sydney Morning Herald

Thursday 12 March

The Kosh

The Storeroom

International award winning performance company The Kosh makes its Drill Hall debut with a show that offers a dark, daring and dazzling comic cabaret in which a mystery, a femme fatale and a revenge tale mingle in a potent cocktail of theatre and physical adventure. The Kosh is one of the UK’s most exciting touring companies and this darkly comic physical tale that stars the astonishing Siân Williams is played out against a mesmerising soundtrack.

Siân Williams, a rare creature, a performer of extraordinary gifts The Independent

a one woman phenomenon Evening Standard

Saturday 14 March

Lincoln Drill Hall’s 5th Birthday Event

Join us to mark the 5th anniversary of the re-opening of the Drill Hall. There’ll be some music, a few words, a few memories and the first drink will be free! If you value what the Drill Hall offers to the City then please come along and support us. We’ll also be launching our new Friends of the Drill Hall scheme as well as the 2010 Lincoln Community Play, which will be based on people’s memories of the Drill Hall over the last 100 years (email ann.yeates-langley@ntlworld.com to offer recollections and find out more)

Saturday 14 March

St Patrick's Night Celebrations with The Hooleys

After the success of last year’s St Pat’s night event, The Hooleys are back to help us celebrate our birthday with a night of Celtic partying… Describing themselves as ‘an unorthodox combination of seven radical musicians from diverse musical backgrounds, fused together by a common passion for Celtic, Eastern European and American folk music’, The Hooleys offer a unique cocktail of passion, energy and musical brilliance. Plus support bands and plenty of Guinness!

Tuesday 17 March

Edinburgh Double Bill

Lincoln Drill Hall is delighted to present two of Edinburgh’s finest and funniest shows together on the same bill for the first time ever… The SFSPT makes its Lincoln debut, while it’s a return visit for the astonishing and hilarious Plested & Brown…

The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre The comedy double act that has to be seen to be believed brings you songs, sketches, socks and violence. “For sheer energy and laughs per hour, these stockings are the biz The Scotsman “Hilarious… the Abbott & Costello of the sock world” Time Out

Plested & Brown in Health & Stacey Government figures show that an astonishing 250,000 people fled Britain last year. 249,999 went to New Zealand. One went to the Isle of Sambuca.

Stacey, a geography teacher, quits Britain to escape the country’s fanatical adherence to Health and Safety rules. Despite her training, she finds herself in a hot and sweaty jungle, lost and unable to read a map. Ditching the Dorothy Perkins trousers, she builds a new life able to survive anything, except the arrival of Michael, a Health and Safety officer from Hampshire County Council. Together they embark on an epic jungle adventure… It’s an accident waiting to happen!

www.plestedandbrown.co.uk

Each performance will last around one hour. Suitable for those aged 14 and over.

Tonight’s double bill has been sponsored by Dale & Co Solicitors.

Wednesday 18 March

Tavaziva Dance

Heart of Darkness

Take an emotional and spiritual dance journey into modern Africa through the eyes of Zimbabwean-born choreographer/composer Bawren Tavaziva and his company of five contemporary dancers. Featuring four short works in different moods, from the austerely beautiful Silent Steps to the gently uplifting Kenyan Athlete, and two startling new works: Sinful Intimacies, a sensual duet exploring African unease with same-sex love, and My Friend Robert which draws on Bawren’s personal experiences: how can an inspirational African leader, adored by his people, descend into horror? Where does the flag-waving and optimism darken into corruption, violence, disease and economic meltdown?

A seamless blend of contemporary and traditional African movement, strikingly costumed and lit The Independent

www.tavazivadance.com

Friday 20 March – Saturday 21 March

Jamie Marcus Productions

Bouncers

Join the four ‘Bouncers’, who between them play over twenty different characters in one crazy night on the town. Meet the lads on the pull and the giggly girls as they prepare for their big night out! Through the flashing lights and mirror ball follow their progress to the dance floor. From the smooth talking DJ, the lipsticked lacquered girls, the Goths and the toffs, from the nightclub to the kebab house, it’s a journey that everyone has had and would like to forget. All kept in control under the watchful eye of the Bouncers! Voted one of the greatest plays of the 20th century by the National Theatre.

Monday 23 March

World Cinema Obsessions

(2002) 113 mins (12)

Dolls

This season’s World Cinema series on the theme of obsessions concludes with cult director Takeshi Kitano’s visually stunning and deeply touching film, Dolls. Three stories of undying love inspired by traditional

Japanese Bunraku puppet theatre: an ambitious young executive returns to his girlfriend after she attempts suicide; thirty years after abandoning his lover, an ageing yazuka is compelled to return to the park where they used to meet; and a former pop star becomes a recluse following a disfiguring accident.

Tonight’s film will be screened at approximately 7.45pm, but will be preceded at 7pm by one or two interesting and relevant shorts, followed by a break for drinks. After the film, there will be the opportunity to talk about the film over drinks at the Green Dragon.

Tuesday 24 March

Shifting Sands

The Devil's Doctor

In its first visit to the Drill Hall, East Midlands company Shifting Sands brings us a comic feast of clowning and physical theatre, peopled by fakes, frauds, revolutionaries, tricksters and prophets. This is the true tale of Paracelsus a 16th century Alchemist. Was he a genius or a swindler? A drunkard or a visionary? Decide for yourself as Paracelsus cheats death, works miracle cures, quarrels with priests and kings, and attracts legends galore. The Devil’s Doctor reveals the heart- breaking, yet comic life of one of the most controversial figures in the history of science and medicine.

www.shiftingsandstheatre.co.uk

Thursday 26 March

In association with Old Bakery Promotions

Spiers & Boden

Winners of three BBC Folk Awards and founders of the folk supergroup Bellowhead, Spiers & Boden have changed the face of folk music since their arrival on the scene in 2001. Known for their energetic performances and powerful reinterpretations of traditional English material, they have rapidly become central figures in the new folk revival.

Anyone who needs convincing that the current folk revival is becoming as intriguing, varied and experimental as it was back in the 1960s should check out the remarkable career of John Spiers and Jon Boden The Guardian

www.spiersandboden.com

Friday 27 March

Literature at Lunchtime

Doctor Zhivago

Pasternak’s book was banned in the USSR, but this is primarily a poet’s novel, describing the Russian revolution as it impinged on one individual, both doctor and poet. Famously filmed with Omar Sharif as Zhivago (being screened at 2pm this afternoon), this is the novel by which Pasternak is best known. His clear disillusionment with Communism led him to be expelled from the Soviet Writers’ Union. Come and enjoy Dr Mackay’s indepth analysis of the novel which would have won the 1958 Nobel Prize, had he been allowed to accept it.

Friday 27 March

(1965) 193 mins (PG)

Doctor Zhivago film

David Lean’s astonishing version of Pasternak’s novel, starring Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Tom Courtenay, Rod Steiger and Alec Guinness.

Saturday 28 March

New Jazz 5

The Dave O'Higgins Quintet featuring Eric Alexander

Dave O’Higgins on tenor saxophone, Eric Alexander on tenor saxophone, James Pearson on piano, Arnie Somogyi on double bass, Kristian Leth on drums Dave O’Higgins and New Yorker Eric Alexander have recently been operating a formidable two-tenor partnership, in a line-up instigated by young Danish drummer Kristian Leth, which also includes classy bassist Arnie Somogyi and Ronnie Scott’s House pianist James Pearson. Expect to hear some joyful and exuberant playing with thundering finales from two of the top saxophonists on the jazz scene.

www.daveohiggins.com

Sunday 29 March

Bailgate Rotary Club Concert

This annual evening of music hall entertainment caters specifically for the elderly and disabled and has been running for more than 20 years.