Next at The Met # 2
Wednesday 31 March 7.30pm
Metrojazz
£6 | £4 Concession
The Met's community jazz orchestra, fronted by Munch Manship, presents a spring gig with the best of jazz, hot and cool... classics and new originals.
Thursday 1 April 7.30pm
Me and Me Dad by Nick Lane
Hull Truck Theatre
£12 | £10 Concession | £10 Members Buy Tickets
A story of friendship, fish pie and flick-to-kick football
Andy Green's dad is good at Subbuteo; hopeless with spaghetti. So when Andy's mum dies, he does the decent thing - he takes a month off work and moves back home with his dad to teach him how to cook. Fighting memories, and occasionally each other, the pair boil pans and set grills on fire. Can their relationship survive? Or is this is one kitchen nightmare even Gordon Ramsay couldn't fix?
A brand new bittersweet comedy from the writer of My Favourite Summer.
This play may contain strong language.
Thursday 1 April 8.30pm
First Thursday Comedy Club
£8 Buy Tickets
Canadian Superstar, hit Performer from BBC 1 Comedy Showcase and just about the best act on the circuit, Tom Stade will be joining us this month with three top support acts!
"Funny as Hell. Pushes the limits just far enough"
Best of Comedy, Now Magazine
A Comedy Club event.
Saturday 3 April 2.30pm
A Little Princess
Image Musical Theatre
£6 | £4 Members Buy Tickets
The brilliant Image Musical Theatre returns with A Little Princess, interactive sing a long fun for all the family.
This wonderful story of a parentless girl courageously resisting hunger and cruelty at the hands of her headmistress, Miss Minchin, is one of the most inspiring of all the children's classics.
You can be the star of the show with the opportunity for some children to take part as actors and the whole audience as the chorus singers - this is family theatre at its very best.
Saturday 3 April 8pm
Filska
£10 | £8 Concession | £8 Members Buy Tickets
Filska have built their music on the islands tradition of fiddle playing. Featuring acclaimed Shetland fiddler Jenna Reid, the band have a highly unique and innovative sound derived from their fresh and dynamic approach to Shetland traditional music.
Saturday 3 April 9pm
The Hobopop Trio
£8 Buy Tickets
The Hobopop Trio adds to the distinctive and accomplished duo of Kirsty McGee and Mat Martin the quirky and inspired double bass of Nick Blacka (Aim, Mrs Columbo). Add dimensions of jazz and rockabilly to McGee's already exceptional rootsy songwriting and Martin's sensitive banjo and guitar playing; shading and colouring the songs with grainy 'hobopop' style.
Thursday 8 April 8pm
Finbar Furey
£16 Buy Tickets
Finbar Furey comes from a unique pedigree - an all Ireland Uillean Pipe Champion and whistle player, singer/songwriter as well as playing 5-string banjo, and guitar.
Finbar has been round the block, recording for Transatlantic records in the 60's and achieving fame as lead singer/ frontman of The Furey Brothers and Davey Arthur.
Now he works solo, which balancing his folk roots with songs such as Now and Forever and New York Girls, which was his handlebar moustache swinging contribution to Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York...
Friday 9 April 8pm
Martin Simpson
£15 | £13 Concession | £13 Members Buy Tickets
One of the finest acoustic finger-style and slide guitar players in the world, twice-winner of Musician Of The Year BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards and nominated for Musician of the Year 2009. Martin Simpson's interpretations of traditional songs are masterpieces of storytelling. His solo shows are intense, eclectic, spellbinding and deeply moving. His new album True Stories was released this year to great acclaim.
Saturday 10 April 1pm
Across The Deep Blue Sea
Stuff and Nonsense Theatre Company
£6 | £4 Members Buy Tickets
A tiny boat, a little lost man and the great wide ocean... How did he get there? How can he get home? And why does that fish keep biting him on the bottom?
Singing whales, acrobatic dolphins and a multitude of deep-sea creatures swim to the surface in this fantastic aquatic adventure.
This show features puppetry, animation, live-music, physical comedy and just the odd squirt of water. Suitable for all ages (5 and over).
Wednesday 14 April 7.30pm
Clunk
The Suitcase Ensemble
£8 | £5 Concession
Two women and an incoherent male live together but can't quite work out why. The radio is broken, another mysterious relative has died and there's a parcel on the step.
Conjuring an evocative world of mutinous rag-toys, domestic wormholes and poignant forgotten dreams, Clunk is a darkly rebellious feast of unhinged humour, charming puppetry and existential angst.