Press release

THE COMEDY STORE

OLDHAM’s Hard Graft Theatre Company has come up with a novel way to give one of Oldham’s empty shops a new use. 

Company founder Mark Whiteley has hired a town centre unit for three weeks with plans to stage his latest production in it! 

Audiences will be able to watch their hit comedy “I Love Oldham” in the shop unit on Albion Street.   “I Love Oldham” is set, appropriately, in an Oldham charity shop. 

Mark wrote it after gathering tales from over 50 charity shops about the sort of goods donated for sale. 

“There were some really funny stories - but the story that stuck was that of a hand gun, a ski mask and a stack of cash - which is where our story begins.”

The tiny “theatre” will only be able to hold 35 people a time. 

AS well as putting on the play, Mark has stocked the shop with items from the local charity Dr Kershaw’s Hospice, audience members will be able to make a purchase at the end of every show.

An earlier version of the show was a big hit at the Edinburgh fringe festival, and is by no means unusual for Hard Graft, which has appeared in people’s sitting rooms before now. 

The show runs from May 21-June 9. All tickets online at www.hardgraft.co.uk 

or call 0161 652 6026 

or 07956-913 666.

I Love Oldham 21 May – 9th June 2013 A Hard Graft Theatre Production Written by Mark Whiteley Directed by Keith Hukin Designed by Celia Perkins Cast : Mark Whiteley (Burt Priory) Rayyah McCaul (Joyce Priory) David Crowley (Bungo, Mac Man, PC Ted Fletcher)