“It will echo off the walls when the lights go out”: Oldham Coliseum's powerful last word
It’s early evening in Oldham town centre and a group of teenagers can be found loitering outside the Coliseum. In good spirits and chatting amongst themselves, they’re shepherded through the ‘Coli’ doors and carefully guided past the merch stand and box office towards the stalls.
“People have been asking me if they can buy pictures on the walls of famous stars who have performed here and there’s talk of selling some of the seats,” says Shelly Ramsdale, Oldham Coliseum’s Head of Marketing, as we talk backstage before the performance. Just two years later, he is sent on a perilous journey across the Adriatic with a gang of people smugglers to a new life in Europe. Here, he is forced to contend with the revolving doors of foster care, in a limbo land where he finds himself alone and untethered.
“The fact that places like the Coliseum are being closed and opportunities to have these conversations in different communities are being removed is horrendous - it’s actually quite dangerous. The news is filtered in a certain way and you’re told what to think rather than watching an actual human being who has real life experience tell you what it’s like.
As the play draws to a close with a heart-wrenching monologue from Dritan about not knowing where his home is and the lights come down on the stage, the audience rises from their seats to give the cast a standing ovation. “I was told there’s no audience like an Oldham audience,” smiles Daniel.
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