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Dateline: 11th June, 2006
The New Season in Bolton The Octagon Theatre in Bolton has announced its autumn and winter season to run from August 2006 to March 2007. The season kicks off with Paul Hunter's production of Terry Johnson's Cleo, Camping, Emmanuelle and Dick, set in the caravan of Sid James during the filming of the four Carry On films in the play's title. The play is set between 1964 and 1978 and follows the strained relationship between the films' stars Sid James, Barbara Windsor and Kenneth Williams. Following this in October, artistic director Mark Babych directs Joe Orton's brilliantly anarchic farce What The Butler Saw. The play is set in a psychiatric hospital, but, as Orton himself observed, unlike other plays of the time about madness it is the doctors, rather than the patients, who fall apart and lose touch with reality. The Octagon is sticking with its tradition of David Wood adaptations of Roald Dahl for its Christmas production, this time with James and the Giant Peach. The story contains many examples of Dahl's unique imaginative twists (who else would have a main character orphaned by a freak rampaging rhinoceros incident?) and features a cast of giant insects as well as a giant peach. The Octagon's own productions for the season end with a world premiere of a play called The Wedding Dance, written and directed by the artistic director of co-producer Nitro, Felix Cross. Cuban immigrant José is a modern Don Juan and a magnificent dancer who exploits his talent for teaching the salsa, becoming a serial seducer and betrayer surrounded by women who want to be with him and men who want to be like him. At a dance competition, José is approached by Miranda, a young bride-to-be. Choosing to shake off her unadventurous image by dancing the salsa as the first dance at her wedding, she wants José to teach her. Miranda’s virginal innocence is irresistible - but tragically it may prove to be one seduction too far… There are visits from the Royal Court with Sugar Mummies, Tamasha with The Trouble With Asian Men, Y Touring Theatre Co with Every Breath, York Theatre Royal with Ay Carmela!, CTC Theatre with Matty & Sis, Futures Theatre Co with Fear To Bully and Afrocats with Where Is Home?, plus a production of The Billie Holiday Story and a selection of the best of Manchester's 24:7 Theatre Festival. There is comedy from Mark Steel, Ed Byrne and Mark Thomas and music from Chas and Dave, The Real Thing, Arun Ghosh, C'Mon Everybody and Soundwaves of the Soul. The children's theatre Saturdays continue with A Wheelie Bin Ate My Sister from Openwide Theatre, Old McDonald And The 3 Pigs Plus from Booster Cushion Theatre, Little Red... You Know Who! from Freehand Theatre and Rumplestiltskin from Figment Theatre and Tell Tale Hearts. Reporter: David Chadderton Please note that all three Archive indices are very long and will therefore take some time to download.
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