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Dateline: 30th May, 2010
Autumn/Winter in Oldham Oldham Coliseum has announced its next programme of productions running between September 2010 and February 2011. The season opens with Kes, adapted by Lawrence Till from Barry Hines's book A Kestrel for a Knave about Yorkshire schoolboy Billy Casper who is bullied at school and abused at home but adopts a kestrel chick which he brings up and trains. This will be directed by artistic director Kevin Shaw. The next Coliseum production is Neil Simon's comedy about two ex-vaudeville stars The Sunshine Boys, which will be directed by Joyce Branagh. As already announced, Shaw will direct Sleeping Beauty for the Christmas production which will once again star Fine Time Fontayne as the dame, and then the season closes with Noël Coward's Private Lives in a co-production with Anvil Arts. Visiting productions include Tamasha's re-telling of Lorca set in present-day Pakistan, The House of Bilquis Bibi by Sudha Bhuchar, popular local comedy duo Lip Service's Desperate to be Doris, Pinter's The Caretaker directed by Michael Cabot for London Classic Theatre, Ballet UK with The Nutcracker, How The Koala Learnt To Hug by Steven Lee for People's Theatre Company, actor and comedian Paul Harris as Frankie Howerd in Frankie Titters On and Brian Friel's Dancing At Lughnasa directed by Alaster Whatley for The Original Theatre Company. David Chadderton
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