Pantomimes and Christmas shows to get you in the festive spirit. Photo: Steve Smailes for The Lincolnite/LPAC/Chapterhouse Theatre Company
Oh yes they are! Christmas Pantomimes are in full swing in Lincoln and there are also a host of other festive shows and performances to look out for in the city.
With just over a week until Christmas, a festive performance may help put you in a jovial mood so The Lincolnite has put together a guide of shows to look out for.
Robin Hood
Photo: Steve Smailes for The Lincolnite
Robin Hood is stealing from the rich and giving to the poor in the 2019 Christmas Pantomime adventure at the New Theatre Royal this winter.
CBBC’s Barney Harwood and Chris Johnson star in the production, alongside Zoe Hedge, who was part of Sir Tom Jones’ team on ITV”s The Voice.
Public performances started on December 6 and will run until January 5, 2020 – click here to buy tickets.
Chris Hayes (Friar Tuck), Barney Harwood (Robin Hood) & Chris Johnson (Will Scarlet). Photo: Caroline Keyworth
Cinderella
The stars of the Cinderella panto at the Lincoln Drill Hall. Photo: Steve Smailes for The Lincolnite
Jamie Marcus Productions has returned with one of the most-loved fairytales of all time for the Christmas pantomime at Lincoln Drill Hall.
James Campbell plays the outrageous stepsister Lady Domestos, paired with Ian Jervis as Lady Parazone. Adam Fox returns as Buttons, with Chloe Sparrowhawk as Cinders, Emma Clare as the Fairy Godmother and Jacob Yolland as Prince Charming.
Take a step through the back of a wardrobe and into Narnia on an adventure with Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy at the Lincoln Performing Arts Centre (LPAC).
The production will run from Tuesday, December 17 until Christmas Eve.
The County Assembly Rooms in the Bailgate area of Lincoln will tell the story of the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol.
The famous story will be brought alive in a traditional production from Chapterhouse Theatre Company, complete with period costume, song and a musical score between December 16-18.
The Christmas Emporium is returning to Lincoln Castle with a new light show in December 2019.
The magic will also unfold as newly imagined fairy tales illuminate Lincoln Castle in a new light show, which will run from 5pm-9pm each evening.
It started on Saturday and Sunday, December 14-15 and will continue between Wednesday, December 18 and Sunday, December 22 – click here to buy tickets.
This year’s light show will mix festive fairy story with local history and legend from Havelok the giant Viking hurling the huge stone which lands within the Castle Walls, to Lucy, the 11th century Countess who ruled the lands, as well as a great dragon and evil wizard.
Get ready for some festive singing as Lincoln Cathedral prepares to hold two Christmas carol concerts this month due to popular demand.
The cathedral’s popular 4pm Christmas Eve Carol Service is always oversubscribed, so the concert including carols led by the organist and choir, will also take place at an additional new service on Monday, December 23.
The concert at 4pm on December 23 will be identical to the service the following day with the same carols and readings, allowing more people to enjoy the special Christmas atmosphere at the cathedral. It is recommended to arrive early on both days to find a seat.
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A man in his 40s was injured after an industrial incident in Holbeach on Wednesday morning.
Emergency services, along with an air ambulance, attended the scene of the incident on Park Road, which was reported to police at 10.47am on January 20.
The road was closed just after 11.30am.
Emergency services and an air ambulance attended the scene. | Photo: Dennis Vink
Police said the man’s injuries are not thought to be life-threatening.
No arrests have been made and the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has been notified.
Six in ten new COVID cases in Lincolnshire were with the new, more infectious variant in the first week of 2021.
The county council’s public health team said that by January 8, 59.2% of tests contained a variant of the virus — up from 36% in the last two weeks of 2020.
North East Lincolnshire’s latest epidemiology report says 50% of positive COVID tests contained the new variant in the first two weeks of January, up from 40% at the end of December.
The new strains of COVID-19 are believed to be up to 70% more transmissible than the first circulating form of the virus.
Professor Derek Ward, Lincolnshire County Council’s director for public health, said he expected the new variants to “push the old one out”.
“At some point in the future 100% or 98% of our cases will be the new variants,” he said.
“The key point is the new variants are out there in South Africa and Brazil, but the key messages stay the same.
“It is a stay at home lockdown and it doesn’t matter which one it is, you’re not going to get it if you don’t go out the door, and, if you are going to have to go outdoors then remember hands, face, space.”
Pfizer said that their vaccine is effective against one key mutation, called N501Y, found in both of the new variants spreading in Britain and South Africa.
Meanwhile, under 70s could begin receiving the vaccine this week, as more than 4 million doses have been administered, the government said.
Tributes have been paid to a “real gentleman” after Skegness Town councillor and former mayor Jim Carpenter sadly died over the weekend.
Skegness Town Council was informed of the 71-year-old’s death on Monday, January 18. It is understood that Jim had also contracted coronavirus prior to his death.
Jim, who lived in Skegness and served the St Clements Ward, had been on the town council since May 2007.
He became mayor in 2013 and at the time of his death he held the position of deputy. He had been due to become mayor again in May 2021.
Jim Carpenter, as deputy mayor, was invited to officially open ‘Winnies’, the new Community Lounge in the Old Methodist Church in Winthorpe. | Photo: Skegness Town Council
Jim was also on the interview panel when town clerk Steve Larner was appointed in his role in 2011.
Steve told The Lincolnite: “I always found that he was a real gentleman in terms of the time he gave to everybody.
“He was just a really nice person and I never heard anybody say a bad word about him. He was liked by everyone he came into contact with.
“He was very generous with his time and I worked with him when he was mayor and he did an excellent job.”
Former mayor, councillor Jim Carpenter (left) with current mayor, councillor Mark Dannatt. | Photo: Skegness Town Council
Mark Dannatt, the current mayor of Skegness, said: “Councillor Carpenter’s death has come as a great shock to councillors and staff alike.
“Our memories are of a true gentleman who gave his time generously and worked hard for his family and the community.
“My thoughts and those of all my colleagues on the council go out to Jim’s family and friends at this sad and difficult time.”
The mayor is also likely to say a few words at a management committee meeting on Wednesday night.
Any plans of remembrance or tributes for Jim will be discussed at the next full town council meeting on February 3.
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