10 of the best

Your guide to events you must not miss this week

1 Key Comedy Festival Key Theatre, March 8 to 11

Back for its sixth year and tickets are still available for Bobby Mair: Loudly Insecure tonight at 7.45pm; Stephen Bailey: Cant Think Straight, Saturday at 7.45pm; Rob Kemp: The Elvis Dead on Sunday at 7.30pm; and Shappi Khosandi: Mistress and Misfit on Sunday at 8pm vivacity-peterborough.com

2 Circus Sallai Bourges Boulevard park, Peterborough, March 13-18

A brand new circus with a modern twist on the traditional to celebrate 250 years of circus. See the cast of acrobats, aerial performers, jugglers, clowns, magicians, stunt riders and many more.

For showtimes go to www.circus-sallai.co.uk

3 Peterborough Civic Society St Marks Church Hall, Lincoln Road, March 12, 7.30pm

Stamford Blue Badge guide Jill Collinge will be speaking about The Jewel in the Crown (the history of Stamford). Entrance is free to members and nonmembers are requested to make a minimum £3 donation.

peterboroughcivicsociety.org.uk

4 Afternoon Tea Peckover House, Wisbech, March 11

Mothering Sunday falls early this year, but there is still plenty of colour in the gardens of the National Trust’s Peckover House to greet mothers on their special day. The Mothering Sunday Afternoon Tea will be offered in the Reed Barn, a setting which adds a special touch to any event.

01945 583463

5 Nature Tots Ferry Meadows, March 12

A fun monthly outdoor parent and toddler group. Each session has a nature theme and will include a messy craft activity, time to explore the beautiful outdoors, story and songtime. Meet at the Discovery

Den, 10am to 11.30am. Cost: £3 per child.

Booking is essential call 01733 234193.

6 Peterborough Arts Cinema John Clare Theatre, tonight

The Death Of Stalin is adapted from the French graphic novel by Fabien Nury and Thierry Robins. As the Soviet dictator drew his very last breath and then died, political infighting led to total chaos within the party.

7 Talk St Mark’s Church Hall, Lincoln Road, tonight

Peterborough Local History Society will hear a talk about Wadenhoe Village and The Trust, given by Paul Goldsmith, who is the Wadenhoe Trust Manager. Meetings commence at 7.30pm. where for a fee of £3 per meeting anyone can come along to individual meetings.

www.peterboroughlocalhistory.co.uk

peterbroughartscinema.co.uk

8 JS Bach: St John Passion Peterborough Cathedral, March 10

Peterborough Cathedral Choir, Youth Choir and Festival Chorus, with Peterborough Choral Society, will be joined by tenor soloist Nick Pritchard, and the Oxford based orchestra, Instruments of Time and Truth. The concert will be directed by Steven Grahl, the Cathedral’s Director of Music.

01733 452336

9 Slide show Sawtry History Society, WI Hall, Sawtry, March 15

The annual meeting will be followed by a slide show of Sawtry Junior School by Mr John Garner, a former head at the school. Members free. Non-members £2.

Contact 01487 831441

10 Women’s Festival Peterborough Town Hall, March 10, 12.40pm

Eastern Angles theatre company will present their findings and throw new light on the Freemans Five story during a 40-minute presentation, telling the story of the five women who worked at Freemans Distribution Centre in Peterborough and their long fight to gain Equal Pay for work of Equal Value.