Articles relating to: Bolton Octagon
Theatre Review: One Man, Two Guvnors, Bolton Octagon
Choosing to produce One Man, Two Guvnors, a play by Richard Bean known as ‘the funniest show on the planet’, could have been an act of hubris.
Read the full story..Theatre Review: The Hound of the Baskervilles, Bolton Octagon
This is extremely silly.
Read the full story..Theatre Review: Treasure Island, Bolton Octagon at the University of Bolton Stadium
Arrh Jim lad, this is Treasure Island, but not as we know it. No timbers will be shivered, no one will be sent to Davy Jones’s Locker, but a good time will be had by all.
Read the full story..Theatre Review: The Last Yankee, Bolton Octagon
David Thacker is an expert on Arthur Miller, and it shows in this beautifully acted, finely directed play.
Read the full story..Theatre Review: And Did Those Feet, Bolton Octagon
Every theatre audience contains a small percentage of professionals.
Read the full story..Theatre Review: Gulliver’s Travels, Queen’s Park, Bolton
Jonathan Swift wrote Gulliver’s Travels to ‘vex the populace’. Elizabeth Newman put it on to please them. Elizabeth Newman won.
Read the full story..Theatre Review: Summer Holiday – The Musical, Bolton Octagon
The theatre director and writer Bob Carlton said there are six good things in every show, no matter how ghastly it is.
Read the full story..Review: All I See Is You, Bolton Octagon
Set in Bolton in 1967, All I See Is You is a stark reminder of how life was for young gay men before decriminalisation.
Read the full story..Theatre Review: East is East, Bolton Octagon
East is East will be familiar to a fair few people thanks to the hugely successful late 90s film.
Read the full story..Review: A Christmas Carol, Bolton Octagon
Knowledge is a burden, don’t you find?
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