Bolton Little Theatre

Meet three couples in their three kitchens on the Christmas Eves of three successive years. The "lower class" but very much up and coming Hopcrofts are in their bright new, gadget filled kitchen anxiously giving a little party for their bank manager and his wife and an architect neighbour. Next there are the architect and…

Summoned to a covent, Dr. Martha Livingstone, a court-appointed psychiatrist, is charged with assessing the sanity of a novice accused of murdering her newborn. Miriam Ruth, the MotherSuperior, determindly keeps young Agnes from the doctor, arousing Livingstone's suspicions further. Who killed the infant and who fathered…

pantomime

A comedy-drama of three widowed friends, Doris Lucille and Esther who live in the same Jewish community. Once a week, they gather to visit their husbands' graves and meet at a deli afterward to talk about their lives. Doris remains fiercely devoted to her late husband and takes her responsibilities as a widow seriously.

The classic northern comedy with a dramatic heart. Sensitive, bookish Arthur and virginial Jenny his new bride are forced by economic circumstances to live with his parents – his gentle mum and good-hearted but rough-tongued dad, who find it hard to understand why his son is so different from him. The lack of privacy in…

Farce

Horwich Amateur Theatre Society presents… this exhilarating land-mark musical telling the thrilling story of a group of impoverished young artists struggling to survive in New York City's East Village in the thriving days of Bohemian excess. Inspired by Puccini's classic opera La Bohème, RENT features unforgettable…

***Spring and Port Wine (1970): Bill Naughton's hit film of 1970 James Mason, Diana Coupland, Susan George and Hannah Gordon. Directed by Peter Hammond. ******The film’s sepcial significance for Bolton is that all the location shots were filmed in Bolton, much of which is recognisable today The film will be introduced by…

Inspired by a book by William Feaver In 1934, a group of Ashington miners and a dental mechanic hired a professor from Newcastle University to teach an Art Appreciation evening class. Unable to understand each other, they embarked on one of the most unusual experiments in British art as the pitmen learned to become…

Sun sea and song!!