Bolton Octagon

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Opened in November 1967 as a Bolton Council initiative, with financial support from businesses as well as money from highly popular community schemes Buy A Seat and Buy A Brick, Bolton’s Octagon Theatre broke the mould of regional theatre design with an innovative, fully flexible auditorium where audiences are never more than 30 feet from the stage and actors.

At a time when many regional theatres struggle for audiences, the Octagon is seeing an upward trend in visitor numbers. Over 135,000 people come to the Octagon each year as audience members, as partakers of the Theatre’s café bar and other facilities, or as participants of the Octagon’s highly regarded community and education programme, activ8. The Octagon’s audience is an inspiring example of a theatre reflecting - and responding to - its community. Today, 25% of the Octagon’s audience are young people aged 16-25, with 12% of the audience coming from culturally diverse backgrounds - slightly above the latest census statistics for Bolton.

In the forty glorious years since it opened, the Octagon has made a significant contribution to in the UK’s creative landscape. Octagon productions continue to break box office targets, win audience and critical acclaim, receive awards and plaudits, and tour nationally. Most recently, Alan Plater’s Blonde Bombshells Of 1943, a co-production with Hampstead Theatre, won the coveted Best Production award at the Manchester Evening News Theatre Awards 2006 (the second year in a row that the Octagon won this prestigious award), and is currently enjoying a sell-out national UK tour.


Connected mandy members:

Brent Lees
Technician, Chief
1988, To, Production Electrician
Young Vic THeatre
Julie Foy
Actor
1986, Our Day Out, Carol
Octagon Theatre
1983, Sisterly Feelings, Dorcas
Bolton Octagon
1983, Saturday Night At The Crown, Eunice Sidebottom
Bolton Octagon
Kate Doherty
Actor
1983, Miss Julie, Christina
Kate Doherty
Actor
1983, Dealing In Futures, Mrs Jones
Kate Doherty
Actor
1983, Charlie's Aunt, Ela Delahay
1982, The Accrington Pals, Sarah
Bolton Octagon
1982, MACBETH, LADY MACBETH
OCTAGON THEATRE
1982, LOVES LABOURS LOST, PRINCESS OF FRANCE
OCTAGON THEATRE
1982, Loves Labour's Lost, Jacquenetta
Bolton Octagon
1981, The Cure For Love, Janey Jenkins
Bolton Octagon
1981, Tango, Ala
Bolton Octagon
1981, Taming of the Shrew, Biondello
Bolton Octagon
1981, Sisterly Feelings, Abigail
Octagon Theatre, Bolton
1981, Saturday Night at The Crown, Sally
Octagon Theatre, Bolton
1981, Miss Julie, Miss Julie
Octagon Theatre, Bolton
1981, Joking Apart by Alan Ayckbourn, Sven
Bolton Octagon
1981, Cymbeline, Arviragus
Bolton Octagon
1981, Charley's Aunt, Kitty
Octagon Theatre, Bolton

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Alternative Company Names

Bolton Octagan, Bolton Octagon Theatre, Octagon Bolton, Octagon Theatre, Octagon Theatre Bolton, Octagon Theatre Company, The Octagon Theatre / Stephen Joseph Theatre / Hull Truck Theatre