Event: Road
Friday 16 September 2022 - Saturday 01 October 2022
Oldham Coliseum
Fairbottom Street
Oldham
OL1 3SW
DETAILS:
A multi award-winning play from Bolton-born writer Jim Cartwright (The Rise and Fall of Little Voice), Road invites you to spend an evening with the residents of a nameless Lancashire street in 1986.
They say it’s grim up north, and sometimes they’re right. There’s no jobs and little hope, but there’s a party to go to that’ll take you from the gutter to the stars and back again.
This is Road, 1987. There’s no jobs and little hope but there’s a party to go to that’ll take you from the gutter to the stars and back again. Step into the homes of the residents of this Lancashire street and witness real life lived to the extremes, where there’s nowhere left to fall but into a little light relief.
Jim Cartwright’s debut play mixes humour and pathos to portray an all-too-relevant tale of deprivation and the extraordinary resilience of the human spirit. Now considered a modern classic, Road won The George Devine Award, The Plays and Players Award, Drama Magazine Award and The Samuel Beckett Award, was voted the third best play of the 1980s and in the top 50 best plays in the history of theatre.
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