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Dateline: 12th May, 2010
New Season at the Octagon Bolton's Octagon Theatre has announced its next season's productions, which once again run for an unusually long period of almost a year from September 2010 to July 2011. Artistic director David Thacker's second programme of plays since joining the Octagon once again combines great American drama with locally-based plays and a few other things thrown in as well. Opening the season in September will be Thacker's own production of Tennessee Williams's most famous play A Streetcar Named Desire, followed by Walter Greenwood's great tale of 1930s Lancashire Love On The Dole. After last year's Oliver Twist, the Octagon once again turns to Dickens for Christmas with David Copperfield, which again will be adapted by Deborah McAndrew and will be directed by the Octagon's trainee director Elizabeth Newman. Thacker will open 2011 with another Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, and another Miller, The Price. This will be followed by two world premières, starting with The Demolition Man by Aelish Michael about unlikely TV celebrity, steeplejack and steam engine fanatic Fred Dibnah during the last few years of his life. Secret Thoughts by David Lodge has been adapted from his novel Thinks... and takes place, like many of his novels, in the world of academia. The season ends with Sondheim and Wheeler's masterpiece of musical theatre Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street, directed by Newman in the actor-musician style that the theatre has embraced over the last few years. David Thacker said of his selections for the season, "My first season as artistic director has confirmed to me that the Octagon audience appreciate a wide range of high quality productions that have impact. "My second season will build on what I have learned from my first." David Chadderton
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