In the rehearsal room - Winter Hill

Join Alex, as he tells us what it has been like to work as Assistant Director on the world premiere of 'Winter Hill' by Timberlake Wertenbaker.
Join Alex, as he tells us what it has been like to work as Assistant Director on the world premiere of 'Winter Hill' by Timberlake Wertenbaker.
Cara, a Theatre student at the University of Bolton and Octagon Theatre, shares her experience of the course
Artistic Assistant Alex tells us a little bit more about the process of our Top 5 Season...
During Captioning Awareness Week, we aim to help raise awareness of captioning within the theatres. Audiences with various forms of hearing loss could have their theatrical experiences transformed by captions and live subtitles. We spoke to our Captioner Claire McIntyre about captioning performances and why it's such an important service for our audiences and to the theatre industry.
We have put together an inforgraphic of all the fun facts and figures from our recent community production, 'The Secret Garden'!
Our To Kill a Mockingbird cast are busy preparing for opening night, but they have taken time to record some of their favourite snippets from Harper Lee's powerful novel.
Since it opened on Thursday 4 June 2015, we’ve had as many positive audience comments about the Noises Off set and the theatre’s (real) backstage goings-on as we have had about the production itself. Due to popular demand, we cornered our Head of Production, Olly Seviour, who gave us a few bullet points about the complicated set and how his team constructed and conquered it…