Oldham Coliseum Theatre spring-summer 2017 season features triumphant returns, new takes on old classics and comedies, topped off with a glittering Bollywood musical.
The season kicks off on March 3 with a brand new look into Oldham’s past from writers Cathy Crabb and Lindsay Williams and composer Carol Donaldson. Meat Pie, Sausage Roll is a musical about family and loyalty set against the backdrop of Oldham Athletic’s memorable 1990/1991 season.
From April 13 to 29, the Coliseum presents Bill Naughton’s Lancastrian comedy Spring and Port Wine followed by Charles Dickens as you’ve never seen him before from May 19 to June 3, with Stephen Jeffreys’s fast-moving adaptation of Hard Times.
Actor, director and two-time former Coliseum artistic director Kenneth Alan Taylor returns to the Coliseum stage from June 16 to July 1 to star in The Father. Written by Florian Zeller and translated by Christopher Hampton, the play portrays the devastating impact of dementia on one man and the people in his life.
Elsewhere in the season, London Classic Theatre return with its tour of Hysteria, the farce in which Sigmund Freud meets Salvador Dali, Phyzzical brings its eye-catching romantic comedy Bring on The Bollywood and in May the Coliseum will also once again join forces with London’s Southbank Centre, Black Country Touring and Cast in Doncaster to present the second tour of Alchemy, a festival which celebrates South Asian arts, music and performance from international artists alongside local and regional talent.