Theatre and performance in Greater Manchester & other places.
Oldham Coliseum. It’s 1954 and, as the audience arrives for the opening night of Macbeth, the Coliseum staff are slightly on edge. The last time the ‘Scottish play’ was staged in the building one of the cast suffered a fatal accident. Fingers are crossed that all will go well tonight. The good news is that [...]
Oldham Coliseum. 16 November 2019. A booming giant-voiced announcement signals the start of the show, "Fee Fi Fo Fum, put your phone away and sit on your bum". Mobile ringtones wouldn't have been a worry for the cast of Oldham Coliseum's first pantomime way back in 1887. Times have changed but over 130 years later [...]
Oldham Coliseum. 2 February 2019. Jimmie Chinn's A Different Way Home unpicks a bitter estrangement between siblings Leslie and Maureen. Split into two monologues, the play tells one story from each of their perspectives, with actor Kenneth Alan Taylor playing both brother and sister. Leslie has lived with his mother all his life, and he [...]
Circles & Stalls 