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Dateline: 7th December, 2008
Spring and Summer in Oldham The spring and summer season at Oldham's Coliseum Theatre, announced this week, kicks off with a brief visit from renowned actor Jack Shepherd, TV's Detective Superintendent Wycliffe, in his own comedy play Only When I Laugh in which he plays the theatre manager of the Leeds Empire in the glory days of variety going through a particularly trying time with his unreliable acts. The Coliseum teams up with Lyric Hammersmith and leading British Asian theatre company Tamasha for a Bollywood version of Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights, written by Deepak Verma with music by Sheema Mukherjee and Felix Cross and lyrics by Cross, directed by Kristine Landon-Smith. Former Coliseum artistic director Kenneth Alan Taylor is directed by his successor Kevin Shaw in Ronald Harwood's Quartet about four former leading opera stars living out their older years together. Taking us into the summer, Robin Herford returns to the Coliseum to direct Noël Coward's ghostly comedy Blithe Spirit, the play that won this year's audience choice nomination for inclusion in the theatre's season. The season ends with Shaw directing Martha, Josie and the Chinese Elvis by Charlotte Jones. For children, The People's Theatre Company performs its family musical Bink and the Hairy Fairy, where Bink has to save the Elves from the wicked Lord Murkor. There is also another programme of children's theatre at Uppermill Civic Hall: Terry Jones's Fairy Tales from DNA, Spacehoppers from Tell Tale and Rainbow Fish from Blunderbus. Also at Coldhurst Lifelong Learning Centre, there will be performances of Garden of Dreams from Monster Productions and Grandpa Joe's Magic Show by Bill Davies from Blunderbus. One-night events include Big Girls Don't Cry, celebrating the music of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons, Sing-a-long-a-Hairspray, Abba tribute show Voulez Vous and an audience with veteran actor Peter Sallis, who relatively recently emerged from the TV retirement home of Last of the Summer Wine to new notoriety as the voice of Wallace in the Wallace and Gromit animated films. Amateur group Congress Players will present the musical version of The Full Monty based on the popular film, and youth group Oldham Theatre Workshop will present its new musical Don't Turn My Life Into A Musical... The Musical. It has also been announced that next year's pantomime will be Mother Goose, running from 21 November 2009 to 9 January 2010. David Chadderton
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