Theatre and performance in Greater Manchester & other places.
Bolton Octagon at Bolton Town Hall. 26 April 2018. Bolton Octagon's annual REVEAL Festival promises "original and exciting theatre" although it also offers the additional bonus of seeing performances in non-theatre venues across Bolton. So far I've perched on a bar stool to watch a performance in a pub and sat on a row of [...]
Bolton Octagon at the Venue Bar. 25 April 2018. Bolton Octagon's annual REVEAL Festival promises "original and exciting theatre" although it also offers the additional bonus of seeing performances in non-theatre venues across Bolton. So far I've perched on a bar stool to watch a performance in a pub and sat on a row of [...]
Octagon, Bolton. 9 April 2018. Set in Bolton in 1967, there's something reassuringly sweet about Kathrine Smith's tale of two men falling in love for the first time. Yet, Bobby and Ralph's romance follows a far from conventional trajectory - an anonymous fumble in a toilet cubicle, leading to a fiercely uninhibited fuck in Ralph's [...]
Bolton Octagon. 16 May 2017. This is not a review, just some interim (and possibly random) thoughts on 'Winter Hill'. I was lucky enough to be offered a ticket unexpectedly to see it very early in the run. However I'd already booked to see it in the final week so I reserve the right to [...]
Bolton Octagon, 27th April 2017 As Brigid Larmour's new production of Dodie Smith's much-loved novel begins, 17 year old Cassandra is writing her diary both sitting in and singing in the kitchen sink. The story of two sisters growing up in an impoverished and chaotic Bohemian family in the 1930s has not just been pulled [...]
11 April 2017. Bolton Octagon. The shock felt by many readers of Anne Brontë's novel 'The Tenant of Wildfell Hall' on publication in the mid-nineteenth century is difficult to replicate for a contemporary audience. The book shook a fist at the predominant moral and patriarchal attitudes of that time with its story of Helen Graham, [...]
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