In the end, if indeed it is the end (many on stage would have you believe it isn’t), the final curtain came down shortly before 11pm on Friday. The show was some distance from being polished, but it was surely one of the most emotional in the 138-year history of the Oldham Coliseum.
Five minutes after the final bow from the cast, pulled together in a matter of days, the audience in the sold-out auditorium continued to applaud each other, as requested by the artistic director, Chris Lawson. Those in the stalls looked to the circle, the circle looked back, people made eye contact and applauded in recognition of an act of communion.
