Due to unforeseen circumstances the start of the building work for the essential redevelopment of the Octagon building has been delayed by a few weeks. This means the building will no longer close on Sat 5 May and the production of Summer Holiday will now be in the Octagon and not the Albert Halls.
Octagon Theatre Bolton are delighted to announce full casting for their forthcoming site-specific production of the musical Summer Holiday.
From Freedom Studios comes When We Were Brothers, Ben Tagoe’s intimate new play which explores male friendship, masculinity, betrayal and the fragile nature of the male psyche.
TRIAL is a brand new site-specific show about sexual violence and the devastating impact of never being believed by Monkeywood Theatre in association with Octagon Bolton, performed in a courtroom setting for the Octagon’s REVEAL Festival from Thursday 26 April 2018.
Kathrine Smith, writer of All I See Is You, National Octagon Prize winner, talks about her writing process.
We're excited to announce the cast of Flight, an enthralling new play by Nuzhat Ali about a man and his daughter who, with everything to lose, make a desperate and dangerous flight from Syria to Europe.
The Octagon take a step closer to their fundraising target of £9.87 million with help from The Foyle Foundation, the Wolfson Foundation and the Garfield Weston Foundation along with other charitable trusts pledging their support.
Octagon Theatre Bolton set to take audiences on a magical journey with spectacular site-specific staging of 1960’s musical film Summer Holiday.
The Big Corner is an uplifting coming of age comedy, travelling through time and the streets of Bolton showing at the Octagon Thu 19 April - Sat 5 May.
A brand new play about forbidden love in Bolton in the Sixties by Octagon National Playwriting Prize winner Kathrine Smith.