The cast of The Night Alive...
The Night Alive
The second installment from the Television Workshop 2016 play season. This week, sees a bunch of Notts teenagers take on the mammoth task of a Irish accent, as they perform Connor McPherson’s latest play, The Night Alive. The play focuses around Tommy, trying to get his life together by renting a room at his aunt's house and keeping his ex-missus and kiddos at arms length. After meeting Aimee – a similarly troubled individual with a bit of a past – the pair embark on a quest to make more of their lives. Starring Lucy Carless from Channel 4’s Humans, it’s not to be missed. Bell up the Workshop on 01159932391 to reserve your tickets, and pay on the door.
Tuesday 22 to Saturday 26 March, 7.30pm, £6, The Television Workshop
image: Hackspace
Hackspace 2.5 Fundraising Party
If you’re well into building, making, re-wiring and creating, you’ve probably heard of Hackspace. Community-based, and funded entirely by members, it’s open for anyone to get stuck in and help each other out. This week, they’re hosting a fundraising event to raise dollar to renovate their current space to make them the biggest hackspace in the UK. You can sample cocktails designed from their cocktail-making robot, Barbot, bid on gadgets made by Hackspace members, and get proper stuck in with a ‘mini-nerd’ quiz. All for a proper good cause. Go on - pop down and spend some cash to help out a right good community cause.
Thursday 24 March, 8pm, free entry, Antenna
Vaughn Teufel's The Captain...
The Captain Launch
There’s in no means a shortage of decent filmmakers in Hoodtown, popping their heads round the corner to put Notts on the map. This week, Vaughn Teufel is proper reppin’ his hometown with his debut horror-comedy film, The Captain, with a cast and crew of almost entirely local East Midlands artists. Well in, Vaughn. Telling the tale of Ken, a lonely fella who is befriended by Death in the form of a HMS captain, in a rather dismal East-Mids social club. Tickets are free, but the event is expected to sell out, so make sure to book your tickets online. There’ll be an after party at The Chameleon for you to schmooze with one of the brightest up-and-coming filmmakers we've got.
Friday 25 March, 7.30pm, free but booking required, Nottingham Writers’ Studio
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A Pocket Full of Grimms
In many a humble opinion, Disney have bastardised the Grimms Brothers’ fairy tales with their ever-youthful princesses, charming princes, and cheeky yet chirpy talking animals. If you wanna educate your kids good and proper in the language of fairy tales, tek ‘em over to Djangoly Theatre this week to catch Story Pocket Theatre bringing some of the best loved and lesser known stories from the Brothers Grimm to life. Think puppetry, clowning, and a couple of dark tales to boot. A right good way to spend the Easter weekend, we reckon. The event is suitable for kiddos over the age of five, so leave the proper little nippers at home.
Friday 25 March, 1pm and 3.30pm, £8, Djangoly Theatre
Call in sick on Saturday...
Tumble XL presents Pinch & Om Unit
The venue formerly known as The Irish Centre has had a full on dose of life pumped through its veins of late. Be it through Clash Money rap battles, Big Fish Little Fish family raves, or the biggest New Years Eve party known to man. This week, it’s the turn of Tumble Audio to take over the Wilford Street venue. With dubstep pioneer, Pinch gearing up to take control of the decks, and a ninety-minute set from the one and only Om Unit, you best set yoursens up for a proper biggun. Open till 5am, there ain’t no way you’ll be going to bed before the sun comes up. Party on, youths. It’s what you were destined to do.
Friday 25 March, 11pm, £10, The I Club (The Irish Centre)
image: National Videogame Arcade
National Videogame Arcade Birthday Celebrations
We love a good birthday party at the ‘Lion. Not half as much as we like testing out some proper slick new technology that we could never hope to afford oursens. Combining the two for us this week is the NVA, who, on celebrating their first birthday, have installed a brand new HTC VIVE – that’s a virtual reality game to you and me. Try your hand at Unseen Diplomacy, the brand spankin’ spy game from Triangular Pixels, that’ll have you feeling like a proper James Bond in no time. Just whack on the headset, and immerse yourself in the wonderful world of virtual reality. Just mind you don’t get sucked in...
From Saturday 26 March, National Videogame Arcade
image: Nonsuch Theatre
Freerangers
If Saturday morning television is just about turning your little’uns brains to mush, or you simply can’t stand the repetitive theme tunes and constant bogey jokes, ship ‘em off to a drama class. Nonsuch Theatre company are hoping to inspire the next generation of Notts creatives with their action-packed mornings of singing, drama, dance, drawing. Encouraging kiddos to learn and grow through the arts is at the centre of the Nonsuch ethic, and for a bargain price of £6 a session, it’ll give you time for a quiet coffee before the weekend mayhem continues. Plus, it’ll give you a bunch of stuff to stick on your fridge for all the family to see. You never know, you could have a child prodigy on your hands...
Saturday mornings, 10am, £6, ages 4-10, N_Space, Clarendon Street
Gerron down to Glee...
The Gilded Merkin: Burlesque and Cabaret
When planning your next night out, it can be easy to fall into the same old rigmarole. Couple of pints at the local, head into town, finish up with a dirty bit of doner and a barney with the other half in the taxi. It’s time you bled some life into your evenings, and The Glee Club have just the thing. You’re encouraged to dress to impress and enjoy cabaret, burlesque and comedy, courtesy of The Gilded Merkin. Catch Lili La Scala, Bettsie Bon Bon and Scarlett Daggers as they take to the stage with their top notch acts and cheeky reveals. Expect thrills, spills and Chinese pole acrobatics. It’s bound to be summat you don’t see every day, and as far from a roast down ‘Spoons you can get.
Sunday 27 March, 6.30pm, £15, The Glee Club
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