Crunch talks aimed at saving Oldham’s Coliseum theatre and protecting dozens of jobs have ended in stalemate but campaigners say the fight ‘isn’t over’.
The performance union Equity met with Arts Council England representatives at their office in Manchester on Thursday afternoon with the hope of finding a solution to the funding crisis facing the theatre company, and the 70 people employed there facing redundancy.
It comes as the Coliseum Theatre is due to close its doors permanently on March 31, after being dropped from the Arts Council funding portfolio in November.
