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Scribble Creative Writing Festival 2012
by st contributor
Wednesday 18th April 2012
The 2012 Scribble Festival is on May 24th from 11am – 9pm. This year organisers Tell Us Another One have partnered with Oldham Coliseum and Oldham Libraries to bring you Scribble Festival as part of a wider literature festival called RAW 12 – Rhythm and Words…
Tags: Arts,Cartwheel Arts,Creativity,Event,Expression,Music,Oldham,Scribble,Tel Us Another One,Words,writing
Read this articleDouble Sherlocked by Oldham Coliseum!
by st editor
Thursday 8th March 2012
The Coliseum is staging 2 different Sherlock Holmes extravaganzas in two totally different venues. The first is “Hound of the Baskervilles” – a Oldham Coliseum production which runs 12-19 performing at the Lawrence Batley Theatre, Huddersfield as part of its UK Tour. The story is one…
Tags: Baskerville,Coliseum,comedy,Drama,Holmes,Hound,Music,Oldham,Plays,Sherlock,Theatre
Read this articleSnookered Author Interview
by st editor
Thursday 2nd February 2012
Snookered is playing at the Oldham Coliseum from tonight until next Wednesday the 8th. Here is what the Author Ishy Din has to say about his play and the process of writing. Advice to new writers starting out: Learn your craft, (I’m doing this at the…
Tags: Asian Writer,Author,Interview,Ishy Din,Oldham,Oldham Coliseum,Play,Snookered,Stage,Theatre
Read this articleSnookered: A First Production for Middlesborough Writer Ishy Din
by st editor
Tuesday 10th January 2012
“I used to be a taxi driver and now I’m a playwright who drives a taxi. I feel privileged that Tamasha has afforded me the opportunity to express myself, otherwise my voice as a northern British Asian would be muted and my attempts to open a…
Tags: Arts,Asian,Coliseum,Ishy Din,Middlesborough,Norther,Oldham,Play,Theatre
Read this articleNor Any Drop: A Peshkar Premiere
by st editor
Wednesday 30th November 2011
In Peshkar’s “Nor Any Drop” a young man goes to visit his dad in Bangladesh when home in the UK gets flooded and mum is getting things back together. Off he goes, warned by mum that it would be horrible and dirty – that’s what he…
Tags: Author,Cutlure,Nick Ahad,Oldham,Performance,Peshkar,Peshkar Productions,Theatre,wrier
Read this articleTrue Love and Rats: Dick Whittington
by st editor
Sunday 27th November 2011
One thing about panto – it’s adaptable and each version reflects currently topical fads and fashions. It’s more flexible than a rubber-band that’s been stretched between the roadworks and the Metrolink’s future arrival on Union Street. In the Coliseum’s 2011 production Dick Whittington still becomes Mayor of…
Tags: Coliseum,Dick Whittington,King Rat,Oldham,Panto,Theatre
Read this articleWe Got Oldham’s Got Britain’s Got Bhangra
by st editor
Wednesday 9th November 2011
The Audience Loved it. We Loved it – It’s on for the rest of the week – go see it! It’s awesome. Fun, Sad, Uplifting, Silly, everything a Musical should be. All the classic elements of the musical are there: Like “An American in Paris”…