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Dateline: 3rd May, 2008
Octagon New Season The Octagon Theatre in Bolton has announced its autumn and winter season for 2008. The season will open in October with a production by artistic director Mark Babych of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, designed by Tom Scutt. Director Paul Hunter, who directed the Octagon's Accidental Death of an Anarchist two years ago, returns to Bolton to direct The Venetian Twins. Ranjit Bolt has translated Carlo Goldoni's mid-eighteenth century farce, which will be designed by Michael Vale. For the Christmas production, the Octagon returns to David Wood adaptations of Roald Dahl — after a brief flirtation with Dickens last year — with a production by Mark Babych of Danny, the Champion of the World. The season will end with a collaboration with black theatre company Nitro, with whom they collaborated for last year's salsa production The Wedding Dance, for Up Against the Wall, a 'blaxploitation' musical comedy, complete with big afros, funk and flares. This will be directed by Paulette Randall from a script by Randall and Felix Cross. There will also be visiting shows and performers including Pimlico Opera's production of Verdi's Falstaff, Didn't We from 2toned Theatre, Caroline Harding's show about Nell Gwyn called Pretty Witty Nell, Taffy the Storyteller's Spooky Tales, Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues, dark, physical comedy Happy and Married? from Freedom Studios, Red Ladder with Forgotten Things, children's show Aladdin's Bin from Jacito Theatre, a collaboration between young people's theatre company M6 and Ludus Dance for Best Friends about starting school, and Openwide's contemporary take on The Pied Piper. Between the theatre events, there will be musical and comedy performances, poetry readings and lectures. It has also been announced that the spring and summer season for 2009 will open with a production of Harold Pinter's The Caretaker. David Chadderton
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