lincoln performing arts centre autumn/winter 2013

GREAT THEATRE AT THE HEART OF THE CITY

WHAT’S ON

AUTUMN/WINTER 2013

DIRECTOR’S WELCOME

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LINCOLNSHIRE ONE VENUESLincolnshire 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 - http://lincolnshireonevenues.com/LovProjectTeam for the latest opportunities and to have your say.

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Hello There!

Welcome to our new look brochure, packed full of great theatre and arts events open to everyone this autumn and winter.

It’s our 5th Birthday this year and to celebrate University of Lincoln has invested in the future of our venue, supporting many of the changes that audiences have been asking for since I joined the team two years ago.

Alongside our new brochure, we’ve a far more user-friendly website with lots of additional content, making it quicker to buy tickets and to find out more about the shows you love. We’ve also taken over the management of Zing Café Bar and will be looking to expand our offer over the next year and, most significantly of all, we have our own in-house Box Office!

From 12 August 2013 you will be able to buy tickets online, on the phone and in-person at the venue 10am-6pm, Monday-Saturday all year round, and because it’s run by us there will be no supplementary ticket or transaction charges!

I’m sure you’ll agree this is a brilliant news as it now makes it even easier to see great classics like Twelfth Night by Filter and the RSC, innovative performance by Chris Goode and Stan’s Cafe, cutting-edge dance by Jean Abreu or enchanting shows such as The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe – our Christmas treat for all the family.

See you soon

Craig Morrow Artistic Director

DIRECTOR’S CHOICE We have many great events on offer this season but if you like something a bit different, look out for this icon. I highly recommend it! The Good, The God And The Guillotine I Monkey Bars I Wasted I The Anatomy Of Melancholy I Running On Empty

Mondays 8.30pm ‘til late(From 30 Sept – 9 Dec) ZING COMEDY CLUBQuality live stand-up comedy featuring up-and-coming comedians on the UK touring circuit.

Fridays 10am-11.30am(6 Sept – 20 Dec)LIL’ PACS Fun creative play sessions guided storytellers and artists: perfect for parents and toddlers.

Fridays 5pm-7pm(6 Sept – 6 Dec)COMMUTER JAZZThe weekend starts here. Great live music from laid back lounge to Brazilian beats.

THE COLLECTION@Our new visual arts space showcasing young and emerging artists. Open normal café hours. For latest details on exhibitions please visit our website.

Tues 17 Sept, 19 Nov & 21 Jan

OPEN MOUTH!A bi-monthly evening of poetry, live lit and acoustic music performed in a relaxed bar atmosphere.

ZING CAFÉ BAR

Offering fresh and affordable snacks and drinks throughout the day and into the evening. A light, relaxed atmosphere provides lunchers and theatre-goers alike with the ideal spot to have coffee, juice or a glass of wine.

Opening Hours8.30am ‘til 6pm Monday through to Friday and from an hour before show start times.

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FREE EVENTS IN ZING CAFÉ BARZing is home to great free activities and performances throughout the year. See our website for up-to-date listings.

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BOX OFFICE: 01522 837600 // WWW.LPAC.CO.UK

Part of University of Lincoln

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

DEVOTED AND DISGRUNTLED ROADSHOW

Tuesday 17 September 10am-6pm Tickets: £5 (includes ‘unlimited’ tea and coffee)*

Last year, Improbable travelled to 28 venues around the UK to start a nationwide conversation about Theatre and the Arts. It was diverse, exciting, fascinating and incredibly useful.

This year they’re back on the road and we are delighted to be hosting the East Midlands leg of the tour. This is your chance to work in Open Space on whatever issue or question is important to you. Nothing is off the agenda. It’s up to us to make theatre better. No one is going to do it for us.

Open Space gives anyone the chance to propose a starting point for discussion, take part in a conversation, flit between them all, or head to the bar. Improbable open the space, you create the agenda. This event is open to all. Come join the conversation.“Everyone is there on equal terms, whether you’re the artistic director of a major regional theatre or a first-year student just beginning to make work….” LYN GARDNER, THE GUARDIAN

For more details and to read the invitation, please visit www.devotedanddisgruntled.com

*Within reason; after all there’s only so much tea and coffee one can realistically consume isn’t there?!

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Thursday 26 September 7.30pmTickets: £10 Full // £8 Concessions // £5 Students & Under 26 Running Time: 2 hrs 30 mins (including interval)

Lulu needs a job. Robbie needs someone to love. Mark needs to get off heroin. Brian needs someone to sell ecstasy. Gary needs a father and a very special kind of lover.

In turns gripping, horrifying and hilarious, Mark Ravenhill’s play rocked the 90s and shocked a nation – performed by recent graduates from Lincoln School of Performing Arts.

SHOPPING & F***ING

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Half Moon and Full House Theatre

Sunday 29 September 1.30pm Tickets: £10 Adult // £8 Child // £25 Family (4 People, Max 2 Adults) Running Time: 40 minutes (no interval)

Rubba-Dubba-Giggle, Rubba-Dubba-Laugh, there’s magic to be found in the Big Red Bath.

It’s the end of a busy day and it is almost time for bed, and Ben and Bella are in the bath.

Come with us on a bubbly, barmy bath time adventure around the world and home again celebrating all things bath time.

A quirky, vibrant and humorous adaptation of Julia Jarman’s popular children’s picture book that will appeal to families, as it blends music, song and humorous character based performances in a unique new take on this well-loved book.

“Children’s theatre at its best” THE STAGE

BIG RED BATH

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SISTERS UNDER THE SKIN

By Carol Young Husband

Thursday 3 October 7.30pm Tickets: £10 Full // £8 Concessions // £5 Students & Under 26 Running Time: 50 mins (no interval)

A one-woman show that charts the loves and lives of two very different sisters.

When Margaret leaves her husband and unexpectedly arrives at Chrissie’s door with the dreaded matching suitcases, it could change their lives forever. But not if Chrissie’s got anything to do with it!

A percentage of revenue from ticket sales will be donated to Compassion UK.

THE SIX WIVES OF HENRY VIIILiving Spit present

Friday 4 October 7.30pmTickets: £12 Full // £10 Concessions // £5 Students & Under 26 Running Time:1 hour 50 mins (inc. interval)

Two Actors. Too Many Characters. One Big Ego

Howard Coggins looks like Henry VIII. There’s no escaping that.

Stu McLoughlin doesn’t really look like any of the wives, but he’s going to give it a go.

With live original music, embroidery, Barbie dolls, silly songs and historical hysteria, this promises to be an ill-researched lesson in cross-dressing Tudor history that you’ll never forget.

“The best 100 minute comedy show outside of the Edinburgh Fringe.” WESTERN DAILY PRESS

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Saturday 5 October 8pmTickets: £16 All Seats Running Time: 1 hour 35 mins (inc. interval)

The godfather of alternative comedy brings his first full-length stand-up show in 17 years to Lincoln following two sold-out London seasons.

ALEXEI SAYLE

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‘Modern comedy? ‘We owe it all to one man’ CHORTLE.CO.UK

‘Rare and wonderful’ THE TIMES

‘Still gobby and engagingly self-deprecating’ EVENING STANDARD

‘It’s good to have the old Liverpudlian loudmouth back’ TELEGRAPH

‘A true legend goes back to his roots’ TIME OUT

‘An hour of mostly splenetic and often splendid comedy … brings back a quality of political disgust that comedy, and society at large, has been sorely lacking.’

GUARDIAN

‘fearlessly funny’ METRO.CO.UK

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Sunday 6 October 7.30pmTickets: £18 Full // £16 Concessions // £10 Students & Under 26 Running Time: 1 hour 40 mins (inc. interval)

Eve Ensler’s hilarious Broadway and West End smash hit is back with an all new all star cast! Featuring the feisty Hollie-Jay Bowes (Hollyoaks), TV favourite Terri Dwyer (Hollyoaks, Grange Hill, Loose Women) and national treasure Diane Keen (Doctors, Ruth Rendell Mysteries).

An unmissable show for every generation - bring your mum, your best friend, your sister or even your gran – this is the ultimate girls night out… trust us!

The Vagina Monologues donates a percentage of revenue from ticket sales to V-Day benefiting women’s charities across the world.

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“Laugh out loud FUNNY!” THE INDEPENDENT

“Heart-stoppingly powerful” THE SCOTSMAN

“Sex has never been funnier or more poignant” NEW YORK TIMES

TWELFTH NIGHT

Thursday 10 – Friday 11 October 7.30pmTickets: £15 Full // £13 Concessions // £5 Students & Under 26 Running Time: 1 hour 30 mins (no interval)

Two worlds collide in this enormously funny and fast-paced production that has music and riotous celebration bursting from the seams.

Olivia’s melancholic, puritanical household clashes head-on with Sir Toby’s insatiable appetite for drunken debauchery. The lovelorn Orsino’s relentless pursuit of Olivia and Malvolio’s secret obsession typify the madness of love in Illyria: land of make-believe and illusion where girls dress as boys, the wise are fools and the fools are wise.

Originally commissioned for the RSC’s Complete Works Festival, this is undoubtedly one of the freshest and most acclaimed Shakespeare productions of recent years.

By William Shakespeare

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Photos from 2010 tour

“Work that dazzles the eye, enchants the ear, and stimulates both the mind and heart.”

DAILY TELEGRAPH

“Puts the fun back into Twelfth Night and allows us to become participants in a feast of misrule.”

THE GUARDIAN

THE INDEPENDENT DAILY MAIL FINANCIAL TIMES

INSIGHTPost Show Discussion

Thursday 10 October

Filter in association with the Royal Shakespeare Company

Saturday 12 October 1.30pmTickets: £6 All Seats // £15 Family (4 People, Max 2 Adults) Running Time: 55 minutes (no interval)

Join Sheriff Wayne and friends on an adventure to save the town of Nowheresville. Watch as they try to overcome evil Doctor Nisi and his dastardly sidekick.

A hit at Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2013, this family show is full of music and humour, with original songs and fun dances.

Sunday 13 October 3pmTickets: £18 Full // £16 Concessions // £5 Students & Under 26s Running Time: 1 hour 40 mins (inc.interval) One of the finest musicians of his generation, Julian Lloyd Webber has premiered more than fifty works for cello and inspired new compositions from composers as diverse as Malcolm Arnold, Joaquin Rodrigo and Philip Glass. He has collaborated with an extraordinary array of musicians and his many recordings have met with wide acclaim.

Julian has been a Vice-President of the Delius Society since dedi-cating himself to performing the composer’s cello works in 1971 at his London recital debut. In 2009 Julian Lloyd Webber was also elected President of the Elgar Society.

JULIAN LLOYD WEBBER, Cello REBECCA OMORDIA, Piano

International Concert Series

SHERIFF WAYNE AND THE SUNDANCE CAVE

The Lincoln Company

Bach Adagio in G Bridge Scherzetto Ireland The Holy Boy Britten Scherzo Pizzicato from Sonata in C, Op 65 Faure Elegie

Saint-Saens The Swan Delius Sonata (1915)William Lloyd Webber In The Half Light Rachmaninov Sonata in G minor for Cello and Piano Op. 19

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Series Discount

Book all six International Concert Series events at the same time and save money. Only £69 Full or £60 Concessions.

IN CONVERSATION WITH... SIMON STEPHENS

The Lincoln Company

A MODERNIST DOUBLE BILL: ARTAUD: A TRILOGY & HEART OF GAS

Tuesday 15 October 6.30pmFREE ENTRY – book in advance Running Time: 1 hour (no interval)

Simon Stephens is one of British theatre’s most exciting playwrights. An Artistic Associate of Lyric Hammersmith, his plays have been performed across the UK and Europe, including the National Theatre and the Berliner Theatertreffen Festival. Most recently, his adaptation of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time won seven Olivier Awards, including Best New Play.

Join Simon in conversation with Dr Jacqueline Bolton about his past plays, current obsessions and the future of British theatre. This event is part of our INSIGHT series – events and opportunities that take you behind the scenes.

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Thursday 17 October 8pmTickets: £8 Full // £6 Concessions // £5 Students & Under 26s Running Time: 2 hours (inc.interval)

Antonin Artaud’s Spurt of Blood mixed with The Cenci and The Seashell and The Clergyman in an event that layers French surrealism, physical theatre and contemporary farce to create its very own Theatre of Cruelty, which places identifiable fragments of the real world within a clarified unreality.

Seduced by poetic wording, this version of Tristan Tzara’s DaDa-ist play The Gas Heart examines the breakdown of syntax, systems and the norm. Developed from the original script, the performance explores our understanding of the systematic world in which we live. Enter into a place where sounds and voices are not what they seem and where you can eat ice cream for breakfast.

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AGE 14+Contains scenes

of an Adult nature


INSIGHT

Fri 18 – Sat 26 October 2013

We’re proud to be taking part in Frequency 2013, Lincoln’s biennial festival celebrating the pioneering spirit of digital innovation and culture through exhibition, creative collisions and debate. We’ve selected a range of work during the Festival that is ‘revolutionary’ either in content or in theme and we’ve even co-commissioned a stunning new piece by Proto-type Theater who were here in 2012 with the intriguing Third Person: Bonnie & Clyde Redux.

Wednesday 23 October 2013 7.30pm Tickets: £12 Full // £10 Concessions // £5 Students & Under 26s Running Time: 1 hour (no interval)

A captivating multi-sensory experience that goes beyond dance – Jean Abreu’s new work is a celebration of the strange beauty of life. Microscopic images of bodily fluids created by Gilbert & George from 1996-1998 are magnified and animated by digital artists Mirko Arcese and Luca Biada into a fluid, organic environment that both responds to and is manipulated by Abreu in this intensely physical performance. With music by Paul Wolinski of math rock band 65daysofstatic.

Jean Abreu Dance

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Friday 25 October 2013 7.30pmTickets: £12 Full // £10 Concessions // £5 Students & Under 26s Running Time: 1 hour 30 mins (no interval)

A show that steals its style from the gig, the opera and the recital, The Good, The God and The Guillotine is a music-driven piece of theatre like no other.

Three performers and three laptop musicians create an atmospheric, cross-genre journey through a tangle of relationships and technologies, all set against reactive objects, lights and hand-drawn animations.

This is a personal answer to the universal question, inspired by a reading of Albert Camus’ powerful 1942 novel The Stranger.

Commissioned by Lincoln Performing Arts Centre, Manchester Metropolitan University and Tramway, Glasgow.

Supported by Live at LICA and the National Lottery through Arts Council England.

Proto-type Theater

THE GOOD, THE GOD AND THE GUILLOTINE

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LPAC Producers – our young programmers aged 18-25 – present an exciting commissioned performance as part of Frequency Festival 2013! At the time of going to print emerging artists from around the UK are applying for the opportunity to bring their work to Lincoln, and more details of the successful applicant will be revealed shortly.

Look out for other events programmed by LPAC Producers throughout the season.

APOCALYPSE: THE DEATH OF PERFORMANCE

Saturday 26 OctoberFREE ENTRY

In the year 2014, this performance will die. Obsolescence will empower a new mythology for the old forgotten event, completing the circle from death of performance to its guarantee.

Semi live, semi dead, this new Zombie creature will penetrate your imagination and haunt your minds with fears, hopes and doubts about the future of this performance. This is a curated mini festival of Dead/Live Art performances by the students of the advanced MA/MFA Choreographing Live Art programme who function as mediums and clairvoyants presenting their apocalyptic visions from their residency in France.

For more information and performance times visit our website.

MFA Showcase

Lincoln School of Performing Arts

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POSTMAN PAT LIVE – IT’S SHOWTIME!Premier Stage Productions

Sunday 27 October 1pm & 3.30pm Tickets: £12 Adults // £10 Children // £42 Family (4 People, Max 2 Adults) Running Time: 1 hour 30 minutes (inc. interval)

See Pat and his friends live on stage in an exciting new story.

It’s the day of the Greendale karaoke talent show and a top talent scout will be on the lookout for a rising star. Postman Pat has a new karaoke machine to deliver for the show – but when the machine breaks down it looks like the talent show might be in jeopardy. Can Pat save the day? Which of your favourite characters will take part? And who has a ‘golden’ voice. Come and find out!

With songs, laughs and audience participation, together with brand new scenery and costumes, Postman Pat Live is the must see show for ages 3 up, this year.

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AGE 3+


FAMILYFRIENDLY

The Lincoln Company The Lincoln Company

By John Osborne

LOOK BACK IN ANGER LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS

Thursday 31 October 7.30pmTickets: £10 Full // £8 Concessions // £5 Students & Under 26s Running Time: 1 hour 25 mins (no interval)

This infamous attack on post-war Britain still resonates today, where class snobbery, casual misogyny and sexual inequality have far from evaporated.

An iconic figure of the British stage, Jimmy Porter remains a familiar character: a man whose wit and capability for affection make him irresistible, but whose restless dissatisfaction with himself makes him turn with violence on those who love him.

Fresh from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, this welcome revival of John Osborne’s classic play is given a modern touch, where Alison’s ubiquitous iron is not the only thing steaming.

Saturday 2 November 7.30pmTickets: £10 Full // £8 Concessions // £5 Students & Under 26s Running Time: 1 hour 50 mins (inc. interval)

The comedy-horror-rock musical that is an ideal Halloween treat!

A down-and-out floral assistant becomes an overnight sensation when he discovers an exotic plant with a mysterious craving for fresh blood….

This all-singing, all-dancing 1950s sci-fi spoof is charming, tuneful and hilarious with an exhilarating story and score fit for the whole family, including hit songs ‘Feed Me’ and ‘Suddenly Seymour’.

Book and lyrics by Howard Ashman Music by Alan Menken Based on the film by Roger Corman, Screenplay by Charles Griffith Originally produced by the WPA Theatre (Kyle Renick, Producing Director)

This amateur production is presented by permission of Josef Weinberger Ltd on behalf of Music Theatre International of New York.

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THE MAGICAL PLAYROOM Seabright Productions

With Cerrie Burnell as seen on CBeebies

Sunday 3 November 1.30pmTickets: £10 Adults // £8 Child // £25 Family (4 People, Max 2 Adults) Running Time: 50 minutes (no interval)

This delightful new show stars the popular CBeebies presenter Cerrie Burnell, in an original story inspired by her own childhood.

Libby wants nothing more than to be a famous ballerina. But when she’s told to wear a false arm for dancing lessons, she escapes to the magical playroom in search of her dream.

SCRIPT THISWednesday 6 November 6.30pm // FREE ENTRY // 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 [email protected] for consideration by 21 October 2013.

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THE GUARDIAN

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MONKEY BARS

Chris Goode & Company and Unicorn Theatre in association with Brewery Arts Centre

by Chris Goode

Thursday 7 November 7.30pmTickets: £12 Full // £10 Concessions // £5 Students & Under 26s Running Time: 1 hour 10 mins (no interval)

Award-winning writer Chris Goode asked forty 8-to-10-year-olds to talk about their lives. About being scared, getting lost, being brave and growing up. About the adult world that surrounds and awaits them. About family and faith and their favourite sweets.

In Monkey Bars, their words are spoken by adults – playing adults in adult situations.

Monkey Bars is a funny and endlessly surprising verbatim show which offers a revelatory insight into what children are trying to tell us about their lives that we don’t always hear.

“Hilarious and poignant by turns... beautifully staged.”

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GUARDIAN TIMES


By Harold Pinter

London Classic Theatre

BETRAYAL

Friday 8 November 7.30pm Tickets: £12 Full // £10 Concessions // £5 Students & Under 26 Running Time: 1 hour 30 mins (interval tbc)

Emma is married to Robert, a publisher. But for seven years, she has been having an affair with Jerry, a literary agent and Robert’s best friend.

The play begins after the end of the affair, and pursues an intricate, gripping journey back to its very beginning – turning time upside down and charting significant events in reverse. A ruthless exploration of the human heart, Betrayal is Harold Pinter’s most enthralling and accessible work.

“Pinter’s masterpiece” DAILY TELEGRAPH

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WASTEDBy Kate Tempest

Paines Plough, Birmingham Rep and The Roundhouse

“An unmissable experience” WHATSONSTAGE

TIME OUT THE GUARDIAN EVENING STANDARD EXEUNT MAGAZINE

Thursday 14 November 7.30pmTickets: £12 Full // £10 Concessions // £5 Students & Under 26s Running Time: 1 hour (no interval)

I’m making a decision. I’m changing things. This is it.

Three old friends. One remarkable day. For Ted, Danny and Charlotte, life will never be the same again.

A day-glo trip through the parks and raves and cafés of South London, where life is what you make it. The words of Kate Tempest paint a picture of lives less ordinary in an unforgiving world, sound-tracked by an exhilarating score.

A play about life, love and losing your mind. A Paines Plough, Birmingham Repertory Theatre and Roundhouse production in association with NSDF and Latitude Festival.

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AGE 14+INSIGHTPost Show Discussion

The Lincoln Company

ELEGIES FOR ANGELS, PUNKS AND RAGING QUEENS

Saturday 16 November 7.30pmTickets: £10 Full // £8 Concessions // £5 Students & Under 26s Running Time: 55 mins (no interval)

Join nurses, business women and the average Joe to celebrate life, love and relationships. Through song and spoken word, these timeless characters share their life-changing stories and their journey through HIV/AIDS. In this engaging and energetic cult musical we meet those infected and affected by a virus that changes lives, creates lasting friendships and provokes selfless acts.

Book and Lyrics by Bill Russell

Music by Janet Hood

An amateur production by arrangement with Samuel French Ltd

The audience were dancing in the aisles and roaring for more” THE STAGE

“Buddy brilliant!” GRAHAM NORTON, BBC ONE

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Friday 15 November 7.30pmTickets: £15 All Seats Runnig Time: 2 hours 20 mins (inc. interval)

This breathtaking show has rock ’n’ rolled audiences across the globe from Cardiff to California, Barking to Bangkok and Swindon to Sweden and is guaranteed to have everyone singing along to the music and dancing in the aisles.

It stars some of the finest actor-musicians in the UK whose combined West End credits include Buddy, Lennon, Forbidden Planet and Jailhouse Rock and was endorsed as Britain’s most popular Buddy Holly act when the boys guested on BBC One’s Saturday night live programme, The One and Only, hosted by Graham Norton.

Make your Heartbeat a little faster with the show that has thousands of fans the world over saying: “I can’t believe it’s not Buddy!”

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BERKELEY ENSEMBLEInternational Concert Series

Sunday 17 November 3pmTickets: £12 Full // £10 Concessions // £5 Students & Under 26s Running Time: 1 hour 40 mins (inc. interval)

Fast-rising stars and champions of British music, the Berkeley Ensemble take their name from two British composers of the last hundred years, father and son Sir Lennox and Michael Berkeley. Formed in 2008 by members of the Southbank Sinfonia, they have quickly established themselves as one of the UK’s most dynamic young chamber groups. The ensemble enjoys a busy national and international concert schedule, most recently touring China for the first time. They were Finalists in the 2009 Royal Over-Seas League competition and selected by Making Music for the Concert Promoters’ Network.

Programme includes: Beethoven Trio for Clarinet, Cello and Piano in B flatMax Bruch Trios for Clarinet, Cello and PianoBrahms Trio for Clarinet, Cello and Piano in A minor Op.114 Gershwin Three songs

THE ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY

Stan’s Cafe

Thursday 21 November 7.30pm Tickets: £12 Full // £10 Concessions // £5 Students & Under 26s Running time: 2 hrs 30 mins (inc. interval)

The Anatomy of Melancholy has been described as “the greatest book ever written”. Nearly 400 years old, it is a vast (1500 page) attempt to identify the causes, symptoms and cures for all kinds of melancholy. Written by vicar and librarian Robert Burton it contains all the wisdom of its age – arcane, outlandish and hilarious. Yet, amidst all the wild stories and suppositions, much of its advice remains as urgent and profound now as it did then. The time has come for Stan’s Cafe to bring the world’s most extraordinary self-help manual to the stage.

“Stan’s Cafe has a genius way of explaining things and making the difficult simple” THE GUARDIAN

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RUNNING ON EMPTYProbe

Friday 22 November 7.30pmTickets: £12 Full // £10 Concessions // £5 Students & Under 26s Running Time: 1 hour 15 mins (no interval)

This is the story of man, woman and their repeated collision over time. This perpetual cycle unites our two most primal impulses: fear and pleasure.

Dance, text and song combine in this intrepid new work from Probe. Artistic Director Antonia Grove brings together an extraordinary team of creative collaborators: including director Jo McInnes (Royal Court), writer Brad Birch (Soho Theatre), choreographer Charlie Morrissey (Siobhan Davies), composer Lee Ross, designer Fabrice Serafino and performers Scott Smith and Greig Cooke.

“The kind of work that new British dance does best.” THE OBSERVER

“Slick, stylish and sexy, Probe are right on the money.” METRO

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AGE 0-3



CIRCLES IN THE SANDHalf Moon and Tam Tam Theatre

Saturday 23 November 11am // 1.30pm // 3.30pm Tickets: £5 Running Time: 40 minutes (inc. free 15 mins playtime)

This intimate, imaginative and captivating show for the under 3s, explores sand in new and exciting ways. Join us in a world of play with buckets and castle building, spinning and tumbling, delighting in the feel of the sand as it trickles between toes and fingers.

After the performance, children and audience members are invited to explore, discover and play in the sand for themselves.

FAMILYFRIENDLY

By C.S. Lewis

Adapted For The Stage by Arian Mitchell

Music By Shaun Davey

Fri 13 – Tue 24 December 24

Early Bird Ticket Offer

£10 off Family Ticket for Red & Gold Performances -

book and pay by 1 October 2013

Four children – Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy – are evacuated from London during the Blitz to stay in a rambling country house. One day, whilst exploring Lucy stumbles across a curious wardrobe, a gateway to a mysterious world and the adventure begins.

For the land of Narnia lies under the power of the White Witch who has cast a terrible spell where it is forever winter, but never Christmas – and very quickly the children find themselves caught up in a deadly struggle between good and evil…

Originally commissioned and staged by the RSC, this musical version performed by the graduating performing arts students at University of Lincoln takes place in-the-round, positioning the audience at the heart of the action and features a large cast, puppetry and digital projection. It’s sure to be a wonderful festive treat for all the family.

Running Time: 2 hours (inc. interval)

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Morning Matinee Evening

Fri 13 7pm

Sat 14 2pm 7pm

Sun 15 2pm

Mon 16 10am

Tue 17

Wed 18 10am 1pm

Thur 19 10am 1pm

Fri 20 7pm

Sat 21 2pm 7pm

Sun 22 2pm 6pm

Mon 23 2pm 7pm

Tue 24 10am 2pm

Ticket Prices Blue Performances(Previews) £10 all seats

Red Performances

£12 Adults // £10 Child // £40 Family Ticket*

Gold Performances

£13 Adults // £11 Child // £44 Family Ticket*

All Performances

£5 Schools**

*Family Tickets are for 4 people, maximum 2 adults

**1 teacher free for every 10 pupils

AGE 4+


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NEWVOLUTIONS 3: LINCOLN’S FESTIVAL OF NEW PERFORMANCE

In association with Lincoln Art Programme

New Work For A New Year

Tue 21 – Sat 25 January FREE ENTRY

This micro-season of work-in-progress by local, regional and national theatre makers, dancers and choreographers, performers and artists offers an informal opportunity for you to have your say in their creative process.

Following two weeks of intensive workshops and rehearsals we’ll present a range of performance showcases at different stages of development, with the smallest embryo of a new idea sharing the nest with pieces that are almost fully fledged, and then invite you to give your feedback in an informal atmosphere.

A full listing of events will be confirmed later in the autumn. Visit www.lpac.co.uk/newvolutions for details.

Invitation: If you’re an artist or company and have the germ or an idea you want to explore with use please send your proposal to [email protected] before 31 October 2013. Outline what you want to do and any assistance you might need to make it happen.

ENCORE: THE SHOW TUNES STRIKE BACK!

The Lincoln Company

Saturday 2 February 7.30pmTickets: £10 Full // £8 Concessions // £5 Students & Under 26s Running Time: 1 hour 50 mins (inc. interval)

Produced and performed by talented Lincoln School of Performing Arts 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.

ENCORE!The show tunes strike back.

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YUKA ISHIZUKA, Violin RIYAD NICOLAS, Piano

Sunday 16 February 3pm Tickets: £12 Full // £10 Concessions // £5 Students & Under 26s 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. Supported by Tillett Trust.Bach Chaconne in D minorBeethoven Sonata for Violin andPiano in F Op.24 “Spring”Debussy Claire de la luneCesar Franck Sonata for Violin and Piano in A

MARTIN ROSCOE, Piano

Sunday 16 March 3pm Tickets: £14 Full // £12 Concessions // £5 Students & Under 26s 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, K397Schumann KreislerianaBeethoven Sonata No.14 in C sharp minor, Op.27 No.2 ‘Moonlight’Brahms Fantasies Op. 116Chopin Fantasie in F minor Op. 49

ENDELLION QUARTET

Sunday 4 May 3pm Tickets: £16 Full // £14 Conces-sions // £5 Students & Under 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.3Beethoven Quartet Op.135Schubert Quartet in D minor “Death and the Maiden”

International Concert SeriesVIENNA MOZART TRIO

Sunday 26 January 3pm Tickets: £15 Full // £13 Concessions // £5 Students & Under 26s Running Time for each show: 1 hour 40 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.542Beethoven Piano Trio in D Op.70 No.1 “Ghost”Dvorak Piano Trio in B flat Op.21

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PERFORMANCE FORTNIGHTMon 2 – Sun 15 December A two-week celebration of the work being developed by undergraduate and postgraduate Dance and Drama students at University of Lincoln.

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MA Choreography

OPENING OUT / INVITING IN

Monday 2 December 6pm //Tickets: £4 all seats Running Time: 2 hours (inc. interval)This evening of work presents the opportunity to engage with a range or choreographic practices in varying stages of development. Each work is being shaped according to a specific line of research and many of them are being performed to an audience for the first time.

BA Choreography Three

LOCATING DANCEThursday 5 December 2pm // FREE ENTRY Running Time: 1 hour 30 mins (no interval)An afternoon of side-specific choreography across University of Lincoln’s Brayford campus created and performed by third year undergraduate students. Meet at Zing Café Bar..

OPEN STUDIOS

Thursday 5 – Friday 6 Decem-ber 6pm Tickets: £4 all seats Running Time: 1 hour (no interval)An evening of informal work celebrating the outcomes of modules in Dance Composition and Dance Improvisation by first and second year undergraduate students.

MA Advanced Performance Practice

PERFORMANCE LABMonday 2 December 7.30pm // Tickets: £4 all seats Running Time: 1 hour (no interval)Postgraduate students from the MA Advanced Performance Practice present an ensemble work that promises exploration and radical approaches to theatre and performance, this postgraduate ensemble work - which will appeal to students and adventurous public alike - is not to be missed.

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MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING

Tuesday 3 December 7.30pmA play about the need for second chances in all matters of the heart. Join Beatrice and Benedick for the ultimate battle of the sexes in one of Shakespeare’s most notorious and celebrated love stories.

A WINTER’S TALEThursday 5 December 7.30pmMad with paranoid jealousy, King Leontes enters a self-destructive cycle that sees him slip from mercy to tyranny, love to cruelty. Many years later, his daughter, abandoned and presumed dead, meets and falls in love with a young prince and so begins a journey that leads to the most startling tale of reconciliation and redemption.

CYMBELINEFriday 6 December 7.30pmWith its beautiful princess, wicked stepmother, kindly woodsmen, and stolen babies, Cymbeline is a dark fairy tale—Sleeping Beauty meets Snow White. Will they all live happily ever after?

JULIUS CAESARSaturday 7 December 7.30pm Tyranny or democracy? Republic or dictatorship? Inspired by the events of the Russian Revolution this production asks you to consider which side you will stand with when the status quo disintegrates and a social cataclysm unfurls.

SHAKESPEARE IN PERFORMANCEThursday 5, Friday 6, Saturday 7 Tickets: £7 Full // £5 Concessions // £5 Students & Under 26s Ticket Offer: Book all five shows at the same time for only £20 Running Time for each show: 2 hours 20 mins (inc. interval)Five nights of Shakespeare’s finest works directed and abridged by the faculty and performed by second year undergraduate students.

HAMLETWednesday 4 December 7.30pmSo Hamlet’s dad is dead. His mother has married his uncle, who is now the new king. Hamlet isn’t pleased; it all seems a bit hasty and a little suspicious. This performance of First Quarto explores both the tragedy and comedy of Hamlet’s situation.

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MA Playwrighting

DRAMATURGYSaturday 14 December 6.30pm Running Time: 2 hours (inc. interval)

Playwrights from the MA Playwriting programme present staged readings of their new works adapted from a range of different sources.

MA Playwriting

PERFORMANCE WRITINGSunday 15 December 6.30pm Running Time: 2 hours (inc. interval)

Writers from the MA Playwriting programme present new dynamic works in an evening of performed readings.

NEW WRITING SHOWCASETues 3 – Sunday 15 December Tickets: Free Entry

New voices are the life-blood of the theatre. Over two weeks undergraduate and postgraduate playwrights from Lincoln School of Performing Arts will present some compelling readings and rehearsed stagings of new plays.

Off The Page

20 FIRST DATES (PARTS ONE AND TWO)Tuesday 3 – Wednesday 4 December 6.30pm What’s love got to do with it?

20 short plays about love – unrequited, lost and found – by 20 new playwrights. Prepare to be shocked, intrigued but most of all captivated by these modern tales of the eternal search for a significant other. Over two evenings, these short new plays explore what, if anything, love has to do with sex, friendship and the lives of twentysomethings today.


INSIDE THE BLOODY CHAMBER

Thurs 12 December 6pm“Slowly yet teasingly, as if he were giving a child a great, mysterious treat, he took out a bunch of keys from some interior hidey-hole in his jacket…”

Inspired by the themes of Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber we explore the hidden, untold stories of what thrilling mess awaits us all behind locked doors.

ARIONFri 13 December 6pm Adventure, Music, Aquatic mammals and the Sea. An observation, a testimony, a playing, a playing myth. An ensemble performance formed around the libretto Arion and the Dolphin by Vikram Seth, and other deep tales

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READING PERFORMANCEMon 9 – Fri 13 December Tickets: £4 all seats Running Time for each show: 1 hour (no interval)

Ticket Offer: Book all five shows at the same time for £15 A season of new performance and work rarely produced better by some of international theatre’s most influential playwrights performed in the intimacy of Lincoln Performing Arts Centre’s studios.

THIS IS WHERE I LIVE...Mon 9 December 6pmWhy am I living? When am I living? Here I am living.

A performance based around the concept of ‘living’. We have so many questions.

OFFENDING THE AUDIENCEPeter Handke

Tues 10 December 6pm“You are welcome. This piece is a prologue.”

A group of actors take to the stage and announce that there will be no play. They are not characters. The stage does not represent another place. Time passes as it does in real life. There is no illusion. The audience is asked to abandon every expectation.

ANDORRA Max Frisch

Wed 11 December 6pmThe story of a young boy, who is brought up as the Jewish adoptive son of the town’s Teacher in a time of growing anti-Semitism. Exploring themes of identity, guilt and innocence, technology and fate Andorra is a play of innovative staging techniques and a stirring story of the human predicament.




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COMING SPRING 2014 Pilot Theatre in association with Lincolnshire One Venues present

By Jessica FisherDirected by Katie Posner

Thurs 27 – Fri 28 February 2014 Tickets: £12 Full // £10 Concession // £5 Students & Under 26sAn east coast beach. A cold October dawn.

Megan lies face down on the tide-line. Her head is bleeding and one of her shoes is missing.

Joe stands over her; watching, panicking. His world is about to explode.

Co-commissioned by Lincolnshire One Venues Ghost Town is a story about lost friendship, memory, growing up and finding your way.

Part of re:generation2014 a festival of performance by and for young people (and the young at heart) – visit www.lpac.co.uk/regeneration2014 for more details.

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Premier Stage Productions

BANANAS IN PYJAMAS

20 February 2014 1pm and 3.30pm

Tickets: £12.50 Adults // £10.50 Children // £42 Family (4 People, Max 2 Adults)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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HOW TO BOOKBy telephone: call our in-house Box Office on 01522 837600Online: www.lpac.co.uk (up to 9 tickets per transaction) In person: visit our friendly Box Office staff. The Box Office is open Monday to Saturday 10am to 8pm or until 15 minutes after the advertised show begins (6pm on non-performance nights).

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AUTUMN/WINTER 2013

Thurs 10 – Fri 11 Oct 7.30pmTWELFTH NIGHT

Sat 26 Oct variousAPOCALYPSE: THE DEATH OF PERFORMANCE

Friday 8 Nov 7.30pmBETRAYAL

Tue 3 - Sun 15 Dec 6.30pm LSPA NEW WRITING SHOWCASE

Sat 2 Feb 2014 7.30pmENCORE: THE SHOW TUNES STRIKE BACK!

Tues 17 Sept 10am-6pmDEVOTED AND DISGRUNTLED ROADSHOW

Thurs 26 Sept 7.30pmSHOPPING & F***ING

Sun 29 Sept 1.30pmBIG RED BATH

Thurs 3 Oct 7.30pmSISTERS UNDER THE SKIN

Fri 4 Oct 7.30pmTHE SIX WIVES OF HENRY VIII

Sat 5 Oct 8pmALEXEI SAYLE

Sun 6 Sept 7.30pm THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES

Sat 12 Oct 1.30pmSHERIFF WAYNE AND THE SUNDANCE CAVE

Sun 13 Oct 3pmJULIAN LLOYD WEBBER / REBECCA OMORDIA

Tues 15 Oct 6.30pmIN CONVERSATION WITH...SIMON STEPHENS

Thurs 17 Oct 8pmA MODERNIST DOUBLE BILL: SPURT OF ARTAUD & HEART OF GAS

Wed 23 Oct 7.30pmBLOOD

Fri 25 Oct 7.30pmTHE GOOD, THE GOD AND THE GUILLOTINE

Sun 27 Oct 1pm & 3.30pm POSTMAN PAT LIVE – IT’S SHOWTIME!

Thurs 31 Oct 7.30pmLOOK BACK IN ANGER

Sat 2 Nov 7.30pmLITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS

Sun 3 Nov 1.30pmTHE MAGICAL PLAYROOM

Wed 6 Nov 6.30pmSCRIPT THIS

Thurs 7 Nov 7.30pmMONKEY BARS

Thurs 14 Nov 7.30pmWASTED

Fri 15 Nov 7.30pmBUDDY HOLLY AND THE CRICKETERS 21ST BIRTHDAY PARTY

Sat 16 Nov 7.30pmELEGIES FOR ANGELS, PUNKS AND RAGING QUEENS

Sun 17 Nov 3pmBERKELEY ENSEMBLE

Thurs 21 Nov 7.30pmTHE ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY

Fri 22 Nov 7.30pmRUNNING ON EMPTY

Sat 23 Nov 11am / 1.30pm / 3.30pmCIRCLES IN THE SAND

Mon 2 - Fri 6 Dec LSPA DANCE CONCERTS

Mon 9 - Fri 13 6pm LSPA READING PERFORMANCE

Mon 9 - Sat 14 7.30pm LSPA SHAKESPEARE IN PERFORMANCE

Fri 13 – Tue 24 DecTHE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE

Sun 26 Jan 3pm INTERNATIONAL CONCERT SERIESVIENNA MOZART TRIO

Tue 21 – Sat 25 Jan 2014NEWVOLUTIONS 3: LINCOLN’S FESTIVAL OF NEW PERFORMANCE

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