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Everyone remembers the first time they discovered Road. I was 17, just started college. No connections to the industry at all. I’d hear the names of playwrights in lessons and didn’t have a clue who these people were. I’d go to the library and just read plays. 

THERE’S a certain irony at seeing Paula Lane’s name on a production of Road which opens at Oldham Coliseum tonight.

Oldham Coliseum Theatre has announced full casting for their forthcoming revival of Jim Cartwright's (Rise and Voice of Little Voice) powerful play Road.

Oldham Coliseum Theatre has announced its programme for Autumn and Winter 2022-23.

Sun 27 Jun 2021 06.00 EDT Mowgli, Baloo, Bagheera – Kipling may have created them but they were disseminated by Disney. Nowadays, Walt’s 1967 animation is more widely known than Rudyard’s stories, written in India during the British Raj. To create a stage adaptation without referencing the film might risk disappointing younger members of an audience. To return to the original, its worldview so other to our own, might risk offending the adults. Glyn Maxwell’s witty script avo...

Shayek succeeded Jatinder Verma last year