Actor, director, former artistic director of Nottingham Playhouse and twice former artistic director/chief executive of Oldham Coliseum Theatre Kenneth Alan Taylor stars as André in The Father, a French drama that has been performed internationally to great acclaim but gets its North West première at the Oldham venue.
André is a charming elderly gentleman who once had a glittering career as a tap dancer. He lives with his daughter Anne and her husband Antoine in a chic Parisian apartment. Or was he once an engineer whose daughter Anne moved to London with her new partner Pierre? The trouble is, he can’t quite remember, and he can’t find his watch…
Taylor has performed in more than 320 Coliseum productions since his first appearance at the then Oldham Repertory Theatre in 1959.