Oldham Coliseum Spring Season

Kristy Stott, Theatre Editor

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Oldham Coliseum Spring/ Summer Season

Oldham Coliseum, Manchester
1 February-13 June 2019

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Oldham Coliseum Spring Season
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The new Spring/ Summer programme for 2019 from Oldham Coliseum seeks to illuminate pressing issues affecting families and communities, and modern-day society as a whole. Exploring themes around ageing, love and longevity, and family this rousing programme celebrates Northern tales and voices through a hearty mix of new plays, musical theatre and contemporary classics.

The impressive season launches with a revival of one of the Coliseum’s most popular productions, Jimmie Chin’s A Different Way Home. This deeply moving and astutely observed play made its world premiere at Oldham Coliseum back in 1998 and starred Roy Barraclough. Now in this eagerly anticipated restaging, the director of the original 1998 production, Kenneth Alan Taylor (The Father), takes on the parts of both siblings.

Following some of the most urgent themes explored in The Father, the Coliseum revisits the vital topic of dementia in a home-grown production of Barney Norris’ award-winning Visitors. A rural farmhouse frames a family who are falling apart. Tackling some of the issues faced by families struggling with the onset of dementia in a loved one, Visitors is timely and urgent programming.

Set to draw the audience into the macabre mystery of an Irish village, the Oldham Coliseum will present a home-grown production of Martin McDonagh’s A Skull in Connemara. Written by BAFTA and Academy Award-winning McDonagh, you can expect a super sharp production.

With superb theatricality and satirical humour, this season the Coliseum will stage Handbagged. A West End hit and Olivier Award nominee, Handbagged imagines what may have happened at the Queen’s infamous weekly meetings with Margaret Thatcher.

Based on the novel by Melvin Bragg, The Hired Man is a must-see for musical theatre lovers, opening at the Coliseum in June. An epic love story with an inspiring and lively musical score, set to the backdrop of English country tradition and the gathering storm of war.

Check out our full listings for this exciting season at Oldham Coliseum.

Where to go near Oldham Coliseum Spring Season

Oldham
Event venue
Hack Oldham

Hack Oldham is an event space that also offers co-working, community groups and crafting in the heart of Oldham.

Gallery Oldham, in Oldham Cultural Quarter
Manchester
Museum
Gallery Oldham

Gallery Oldham provides a wide range of exhibitions and activities targeted at different audiences of all ages within Oldham and the surrounding area.

The Yoga Seed Oldham
Manchester
The Yoga Seed Oldham

The Yoga Seed is an intimate studio just outside of Oldham town centre. Run by Sharon it offers small classes including a men only class.

Liverpool
Hotel
Epic Apart Hotel

The Epic Apart Hotel offers 14 serviced apartments – and right righin the middle of the Ropewalks district, right behind FACT.

Theatre
Middleton Arena

The Arena has a regular programme of arts and entertainment including live music, concerts, comedy and dances with stage shows and national tours. With two licensed bars this is the perfect location for a great night out.

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