Spring digital season on sale at the Coliseum

This Spring, Oldham Coliseum Theatre is set to present a season of online events and experiences for audiences of all ages to enjoy, using interactivity and digital technology to transport audiences to different worlds and put them at the heart of the story.

As previously announced, the Coliseum presents ThickSkin’s virtual reality experience Petrichor from March 1- 7.

Petrichor is a dystopian reality where everything is routine, every moment is muted, managed and monochrome.

A chance meeting brings two unlikely individuals together and they start to question everything they have ever known.

Originally planned to take place in the theatre’s auditorium during the Covid-secure November season, audiences can experience Petrichor in 360-degrees at home on their phones or tablets.

The Coliseum is then supporting Riptide to present Project Intimacy from Thursday 4 – Thursday, March 18, and working in partnership with Riptide to present The Lucky Ones from Saturday 20 – Friday, March 26.

Riptide create unique immersive and interactive theatrical experience which transport you to another world, combining innovative storytelling with digital technologies.

From Friday 9 - Sunday, April 25, the Oldham theatre and Front Room Productions present Whodunnit at the Coliseum? – a tongue-in-cheek interactive murder mystery set at the theatre in 1954 on the opening night of The Scottish Play.

It’s moments before curtain up and Front of House Manager Edward Fitch is found… dead!

Everyone is a suspect – and it’s up to you to figure out whodunnit.

Front Room is a female-led theatre company existing to create site specific theatre in unconventional spaces. 

Whodunnit at the Coliseum? is part theatre, part film and part video game, all taking place online.

Audiences can return to the theatre for the first time since March 2020 without physically leaving their homes.

A series of choices will determine which scenes are seen and players have the opportunity to explore the theatre using a special game board. 

In addition to the digital season now on sale, Oldham Coliseum this month announced the recipients of it’s Micro Commissions, with seven new works being created for audiences to experience online this Spring.

Exploring themes of health and wellbeing, local stories of work for and with young people from Oldham, the works respond to the world as we live in it today, almost one year on from the beginning of the pandemic.

Keep up to date by logging on the Coliseum website: www.coliseum.org.uk

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