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Blackfriars Arts Centre

an open door to the arts in Boston

Lincolnshire Jazz and Rock Academy present

An Informal Concert with Special Guests

Paul Harry Harris - Keys Simon Bates - Saxophone Dave Swift - Bass Chris Dagley - Drums Dave Ital - Guitar

An informal concert where Lincolnshire's most talented young jazz rock and pop musicians share the stage with the best of British session musicians. Our guest artists have worked with Jools Holland, Tom Jones, George Harrison, George Benson, Al Jarreau, Sting, Norah Jones, Jamiroquai, Eric Clapton, BBC Big Band, Donny Osmond, Simply Red, Charlotte Church, David Bowie, Elvis Costello, Lulu, Billy Ocean, Seal, Jamie Cullum, Anita Baker, Craig David, Sugababes, Jocelyn Brown and M People to name but a few!

This is the third programme of Lincolnshire County Council's Youth Jazz and Rock Academy. The programme will conclude with a showcase concert at Skegness Embassy Theatre Saturday 29th March 08. This evening is a sneak preview featuring our fabulous guest artists working with the Academy. For more information visit www.jara.org.uk

Saturday 12 January 8pm

£8 concessions £7

Fluid Thinking Comedy Club

Adults Only

The first of this year's Comedy Club's features compere Mike Belgrave who has been performing all over the country for quite a few years now, including Dublin and Barcelona and has thousands of comedy music videos and podcasts on the Net. Mike will be introducing headline act Aaron Counter. Aaron's intelligent humour is delivered with an acid tongue but tempered with a playful child-like manner. Also appearing are Jack Whitehall who compares his own comedy night in Manchester and Phil Buckley who has performed in over 400 gigs.

Saturday 19 January 8pm

£8 Concessions £7

Graham Bean

From pounding the beat in Barnsley, through indulging in a chat over a cup of tea in Boston, to representing the biggest club in the world, Graham Bean has seen more than most in the football world. Appointed to the role of Compliance Officer for the FA in 1999, he quickly became known as "The Sleazebuster" with his remit to uncover the darker side of football. Expect a serious and amusing insight into dodgy transfers, bungs, the murky world of football agents, ticket scandals, and a range of other undesirable practices that go on in the world of football. This show is hosted by the Boston United Supporters' Association (www.unitedforyou.co.uk) and all proceeds will be used to benefit Boston United Football Club.

Thursday 24 January 7.30pm

£15

Blackfriars Children’s Theatre present

The Pantomime Play

Blackfriars Children’s Theatre presents a performance of The Pantomime Play by Douglas Jackson.

BCT members are all aged between eight and eleven years and meet at Blackfriars to rehearse and perform.

The Pantomime Play tells the story of Little Red Riding Hood, with a difference. On her journey through the woods to Grandma’s house, Red meets many of the Nursery Rhyme characters. This tale will delight both young and old!

Saturday 26 January 7pm

£5

Boston Playgoers

A Tomb With a View

The sinister and dysfunctional Tomb family awaits the reading of the old man's will, which involves millions of pounds, with bated breath. They all have their own twisted reasons for wanting the money. Very rarely venturing into the outside world they live in the cocoon of their home, Monument House. Each family member is positively barking. One wanders round in a toga convinced he is Julius Caesar, another has werewolf tendencies and indulges in weird and wonderful experiments while a third, who appears to be a gentle old lady, delights in killing people off with her poisonous brews. By the third act the play is littered with corpses. This comedy-thriller will keep audiences guessing as it twists and turns to its surprising conclusion.

Wednesday 30 January to Saturday 2 February 7.30pm

£7.50 concessions £6.50

Fluid Thinking Comedy Club

Adults Only

Another night of top-notch comedy from some of the best comedians currently touring the circuit. The bar will be open to loosen you laughing gear and as ever the night will consist of three comedians and a compere. Book early to avoid missing out as these events sell well ahead of the night.

Saturday 16 February 8pm

£8 concessions £7

Hull Truck Theatre

Two

One pub; One night; Fourteen characters; Two actors.

Meet our Landlord and Landlady; bitter, dysfunctional and constantly bickering. Enter the clientele; Slick-talking lethario 'Moth', an old woman taking a break from her 'work'; Fred and his wife Alice - who's never been the same since Elvis died, and Mrs Iger.... "I love big men".

Amid the bustle of the busy pub, we see contrasting but all too familiar characters portrayed; from those we joyously recognise, to those we would rather forget. Love, loneliness, crisis and conflict all play out as the pints are pulled and the night draws on.

The savage exchanges of our hosts reach boiling point as time is called, and as the stragglers make their way back out into the night, they are forced to confront their unspoken tragedy...

Colourful and intriguing characters juggle public facade and private emotion in this often hilarious and sharply observed representation of Northern pub life. From the writer of The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, Two carries its audience through the ups and downs of relationships and cannot fail to touch a nerve.

"Jim Cartwright is one of the mavericks of British theatre."
Daily Telegraph

"Broad humour, dry wit and often shudderingly moving poetry."
Time Out

Friday 22 February 7.30pm

£10 concessions £9

Rejects Revenge present

Here be Monsters

Treading, boldly, in the footsteps of Jules Verne, H.G.Wells and Laika the dog the Rejects take you on a journey to the centre of the universe. Join the crew of the world's first steam powered spacecraft as it leaves this vale of tears and heads, unfeasibly, to Paradise.

Rejects Revenge is one of the country's top theatre companies and 'Monsters...' is their 14th national touring show. Be prepared for film, music, sight gags, silliness and asteroid belts as they launch, literally, into uncharted territory...

"Something very marvellous... richly comic, darkly bizarre..."
The Guardian on Bicycle Bridge

"Razor-sharp script and exceptionally funny performances make for a comic production that is Pythonesque in its hilarity..."
Edinburgh Evening News on The Steppe Brothers

Friday 29 February 7.30pm

£10 concessions £9

Boston Operatic Society present

Kiss Me Kate

Kiss me, Kate is one of Broadway's treasures, combining Shakespeare's "Taming of the Shrew" with Cole Porter's music and lyrics to create an instant success with every cast and audience. This is a play-within-a-play where each cast member's on-stage life is complicated by what is happening offstage. Musical numbers include Why Can't You Behave, So In Love Am I, Wunderbar, Tom, Dick or Harry, Were Thine That Special Face, Too Darn Hot, Brush Up Your Shakespeare, I Hate Men, Always True to You (In My Fashion) and Another Op'nin, Another Show. Kiss Me, Kate is fun, melodious and sophisticated.

Bookings for BOS Patrons and members begins on Monday 18 February. On Tuesday 19 February Patron s and Members can book over the phone. Public bookings begin on Monday 25 February.

Monday 31 March to Saturday 5 April 7.30pm

Monday and Tuesday £9, Wednesday and Thursday £10, Friday and Saturday £11.

Drama Workshops

Be in the know for the show!

Make the most of your visit to the theatre. Book one of the PTC's popular drama workshops where the stars of the show will introduce you and your children to everything you ever needed to know about The Witch's Bogey including the songs, the characters and who to hiss and boo!

It's your unmissably entertaining introduction to the fun!

Age range - All ages

Running time - 45 minutes

£3 per person if booked separately

People's Theatre Company

Witch's Bogey

Baba Yaga is an evil witch who likes nothing better than eating sweet, young girls for dinner.

Virtue is a sweet, young girl...

When the two of them meet in this magical pop musical it can only wind up with someone coming to a grotty, dotty and quite possibly snotty end!

The People's Theatre Company is proud to present its smash hit musical for adults and children. Based on the classic Russian tale of "Baba Yaga the Witch", The Witch's Bogey is a funky fairytale about good versus evil and the magic of family guaranteed to delight absolutely anyone who's ever lived, loved or blown their nose!

A glittering cast, colourful characters and memorable songs make The Witch's Bogey the unmissable show of the year, so if you're picking just one musical this year... Pick The Witch's Bogey!

"Hugely entertaining" - Daily Express

Age range - Suitable for all ages but particularly older children. Running time - 1 hour and 30 minutes.

Tuesday 8 April 3pm and 7.30pm

£9 concessions £7
Combi Ticket (show and workshop) £8.50 per ticket
Family (2 adults and 2 children, OR 1 adult and 3 children) £32

[Address] Spain Lane,
Boston,
Lincs,
PE21 6HP
[Phone] 01205 363108