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By Ian Youngs
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image captionThe cast of Our Lady of Blundellsands had a run of a week before the show was cut short
Last March, Liverpool s Everyman theatre opened its new play, Our Lady of Blundellsands, starring Josie Lawrence and written by Jonathan Harvey.
After a week, it closed again.
That was when Covid-19 shut all theatres, and most have stayed dark since. But what has happened to people involved in the performing arts over the past 12 months?
Some of those who worked on Our Lady of Blundellsands give a snapshot of what has happened over the past year - from cast members, to backstage staff who ended up working in warehouses or making face masks, to an usher who became a model during lockdown.
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With Monica Ali, Tahmima Anam, Nasima Bee and Leesa Gazi
This is a free online event. Bookers will be sent a link in advance giving access and will be able to watch at any time for 48 hours after the start time.
Sultana s Dream was the utopian creation of Begum Rokeya, a Bengali feminist writer and educator who is widely regarded as a pioneer of women s liberation in South Asia. In the year that Bangladesh turns 50 years old, Tahmima Anam and guests take this visionary work as the starting point to lead a conversation exploring fiction from across the Bangladeshi diaspora.
Post some positivity this year with the Oldham Coliseum Date published: 29 January 2021
The Coliseum has a limited amount of Stamp: Postcards of Positivity resource packs containing postcards, stamps, art and crafts materials and the poetry exercise pack
Following the success of 2020’s community sewing project, Stitch, Oldham Coliseum Theatre is launching a new creative community project for all ages, asking people to create postcards filled with positivity to send to family and friends or return to the Coliseum to be shared with Oldham’s communities.
The theatre is asking people to create their own artwork or drawing for the front of their postcards and write a poem for the message, all based on the themes of ‘connection’ and ‘togetherness’.
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