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The Octagon- The Price
The Octagon our local theatre in Bolton, stages many excellent productions each year. Their latest show is The Price by Arthur Miller. The play is about an old man played by Kenneth Alan Taylor, who cons people into giving him furniture for cheap prices, using his innocent appearance to trick others for his own gain. He cons Victor (Tom Mannion), a kind policeman into selling his furniture to him for a cheap price. His attempts are foiled by Victor’s wife (Susan Sylvester) and brother (Colin Stilton), who we interviewed as part of the BBC News School Report project. I enjoyed the play and thought David Thatcher’s direction and the design by Patrick Connellan, were particularly impressive. The light and sound, operated by Mick Hughes and Andy Smiths, were effortlessly smooth and worked well in the play. The Telegraph commented that the play was ‘powerful’ and ‘scintillating’, sentiment with which I agree. It is certainly one of the best plays I have seen in a while. Arthur Miller, born in Harlem in 1915, wrote a number of famous plays and is renowned for the creation of tense and powerful works such as The Crucible.
By Joe |