Autumn-Winter 2022-23 Season on Sale! |
A mixture of Coliseum-produced and touring drama plus the theatre’s award-winning annual pantomime combine for a packed season of thought-provoking, fun filled and thrilling theatre to suit all tastes.
Read all about it, below. |
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For just £30 a year Our Coliseum members receive a host of benefits and opportunities to get more out of the theatre.
£10 off your first booking 10% off at our bars and kiosk 2for1 tickets for the opening night of all Coliseum productions Exclusive offers in a monthly newsletter Priority booking Annual car park pass for evenings at Bradshaw Street car park |
Autumn-Winter 2022-23 Season Ticket |
With a Season Ticket your love of theatre is rewarded with big savings. The more you book, the more you save! Two shows: Save 5% Three shows: Save 10% Four shows: Save 15% Five shows: Save 20% Six or more shows: Save 25%
Season Ticket discounts will automatically apply to your basket when booking.
All Season Ticket events are eligible for the Season Ticket discount, meaning you can continue to take advantage of this great deal when booking for remaining Season Ticket events from our Autumn-Winter Season as well as well as for our new productions for Spring-Summer.
Season Ticket holders can also spread the cost by Direct Debit if booking four or more shows (please contact Box Office for more information). |
An Oldham Coliseum Theatre production
Road
By Jim Cartwright Directed by Gitika Buttoo
Friday 16 September – Saturday 1 October 2022 Tickets £7 - 22.50
They say it’s grim up north, and sometimes they’re right. But worry not dear friends because our well-oiled narrator Scullery will look after you.
This is Road, 1987. There’s no jobs and little hope but there’s a party to go to that’ll take you from the gutter to the stars and back again. Step into the homes of the residents of this Lancashire street and witness real life lived to the extremes, where there’s nowhere left to fall but into a little light relief.
Jim Cartwright’s 1980s debut play mixes humour and pathos to portray an all-too-relevant tale of deprivation and the extraordinary resilience of the human spirit. Now considered a modern classic, Road was voted in the top 50 best plays in the history of theatre.
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Rifco Theatre Company and Watford Palace Theatre present Glitterball Written by Yasmin Wilde Directed by Pravesh Kumar
Tuesday 11 – Saturday 15 October 2022 Tickets £7 - £22.50 More Bassey than Bhangra...
Sonia’s life has always been a bit of a double act, brought up as one half of a Shirley Bassey tribute act. Alongside her overbearing mother Gloria, she left a trail of sequins across the working men’s clubs of East Anglia. Now she’s divorced, battling through the middle-age jungle, wrangling unimpressed teenagers and navigating rocky friendships.
The arrival of her half-brother Naim brings a refreshed sense of belonging and cultural identity, and she begins to piece together the mosaic of her life. Can Sonia shake off the past, even with her ever-present mother keeping ‘the show’ on the road from beyond the grave?
Glitterball is a play with live music, wry humour and a whole lotta sparkle. |
A John Godber Company & Theatre Royal Wakefield production
Shakers: Under New Management!
By John Godber and Jane Thornton Directed by John Godber
Tuesday 18 – Saturday 22 October 2022 Tickets £7 - £22.50
Funny, physical and fizzing with wit, Shakers might just be the bar that we all want to be seen in.
The double BAFTA winning partnership John Godber and Jane Thornton bring their writing skills to the classic play Shakers, sister play to Bouncers. This revamped version of the iconic play puts women’s lives front and centre, as everyone returns to going out out!
The high street might be struggling to get back to normal but the Shakers bar is under new management and they are determined to make it the place to be seen. For waitresses Adele, Nicky and Mel, their lives juggle home, work, school and everything in between, but how long can it be maintained? |
Paul Morrissey Ltd, Christopher Wheeler and Molly Morris in association with The BARD, Jason Haigh-Ellery and Glynis Henderson Productions present When Darkness Falls By James Milton and Paul Morrissey Directed by Paul Morrissey
Tuesday 25 – Saturday 29 October 2022 Tickets £7 - £20
On a stormy night on the small island of Guernsey, a young paranormal expert joins a sceptical history teacher to record the first in a series of podcasts based on the island’s incredible folklore and paranormal history. As the expert regales his horrifying stories, the teacher learns that we all have ghosts that haunt us - that bring the past, present, and future together in unexpected ways…
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An Oldham Coliseum Theatre production Neville's Island By Tim Firth Directed by Kash Arshad
Friday 17 February – Saturday 4 March 2023 Tickets £7 - £22.50
Like The Apprentice, on an island in the Lake District with middle aged blokes who think they’re Bear Grylls.
From one of Britain’s most beloved writers, Tim Firth (Calendar Girls, The Band, Our House), Neville’s Island is the hilarious and often surprising story of four businessmen on the team building exercise from hell.
Neville, Angus, Gordon and Roy have unwittingly found themselves shipwrecked with barely a sausage between them. As the night gets cold the battle for survival begins and these middle managers discover how little they really know about themselves and each other. |
Pilot Theatre presents Noughts & Crosses By Malorie Blackman Adapted by Sabrina Mahfouz
Tuesday 14 – Saturday 18 March 2023 Tickets £7 - £22.50
Sephy and Callum sit together on a beach. They are in love. It is forbidden.
Sephy is a Cross and Callum is a Nought. Between Noughts & Crosses there are racial and social divides. A segregated society teeters on a volatile knife edge. As violence breaks out, Sephy and Callum draw closer, but this is a romance that will lead them into terrible danger.
This gripping Romeo and Juliet story by acclaimed writer Malorie Blackman and adapted by Sabrina Mahfouz is a captivating drama of love, revolution and what it means to grow up in a divided world.
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Red Ladder Theatre Company supported by Oldham Coliseum Theatre My Voice Was Heard But It Was Ignored By Nana-Kofi Kufuor Directed by Dermot Daly
Wednesday 7 September 2022, 7.30pm Tickets £10 16-25 £7
A gripping tussle of power and an urgent interrogation of racial identity.
15-year-old Reece is roughly accosted by the police outside M&S. His young, Black teacher Gillian witnesses it all – but she doesn't intervene in the disturbing scene that plays out, standing frozen, with fears for her own safety engulfing her mind.
The consequences of her lack of action erupt the following day when Gillian finds herself locked in a classroom with her angry student. |
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A ThickSkin and Traverse Theatre Company production, supported by Theatre Royal Stratford East Commissioned by ThickSkin and Lawrence Batley Theatre How Not To Drown By Nicola McCartney and Dritan Kastrati Directed by Neil Bettles
Thursday 23 – Saturday 25 March 2023 Tickets £7 - £20
An action packed, highly visual production telling the painful yet uplifting true story of an eleven year-old unaccompanied asylum-seeker.
In 2002, in the turmoil after the end of the Kosovan War, Dritan is sent on the notoriously perilous journey across the Adriatic with a gang of people smugglers to a new life in Europe. He relies on his young wit and charm to make it to the UK. But the fight for survival continues as he clings to his identity and sense of self when he ends up in the British care system.
How Not To Drown shares a story of endurance for a little kid who wasn’t safe or welcome anywhere in the world, performed by an ensemble cast starring Dritan Kastrati himself.
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Also included in the Season Ticket deal: remaining Season Ticket events from our Spring-Summer season |
An Oldham Coliseum Theatre production
We Should Definitely Have More Dancing By Clara Darcy and Ian Kershaw Directed by Tatty Hennessy and Raz Shaw
Until Saturday 2 July 2022 Tickets £7 - £20
A cautionary postcard from the edge of life, stuffed full of heart and love and dancing.
Clara Darcy is fit! She’s also (almost) carefree, (kind of) happily single and joyously dancing through life but, little does she know, her world is about to be turned upside down thanks to the arrival of a tumour - slap-bang in the middle of her head.
Renowned director Tatty Hennessy and the team behind the multi-award winning The Greatest Play in the History of the World, Ian Kershaw and Raz Shaw, join forces with actress Clara Darcy to tell her remarkable and surprisingly joyful true story.
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A Headlong, Leeds Playhouse and The Old Vic co-production
Jitney
By August Wilson Directed by Tinuke Craig
Wednesday 13 – Saturday 16 July 2022 Tickets £7 - £22.50
A ground-breaking modern classic.
Regular cabs won’t travel to the Pittsburgh Hill District in 1977, so local residents turn to the unlicensed taxi company of Jim Becker and his fellow ‘jitney’ drivers. When Becker’s son returns from prison, a struggle to reconcile the past begins and the future of the company and its drivers is threatened.
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An Oldham Coliseum Theatre traditional pantomime
Robin Hood
By Fine Time Fontayne and Chris Lawson Directed by Chris Lawson Designed by Celia Perkins
Saturday 12 November 2022 – Saturday 7 January 2023 Tickets £13.50 - £22.50 Flexi Family and Group discounts available
Join real life hero Robin Hood and his band of Merry Men (in tights) on the arrow shooting, thigh slapping adventure of a lifetime! |
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