Oldham Coliseum Theatre is opening its 2022 autumn season with a revival of Jim Cartwright's acclaimed portrait of life in a Lancashire town in Thatcher's Britain of the 1980s, Road, which premièred at the Royal Court Theatre in London in 1986. Returning to the Coliseum after directing the theatre's first post-COVID production, Love n Stuff, in September 2021 is director Gitika Buttoo, who spoke to BTG Editor David Chadderton about the relevance of the play to today's world, the stories it tells, her casting decisions and a career that has taken her from Leeds Playhouse to Bolton Octagon to the National Theatre and now to Oldham Coliseum, amongst others, in just five years. Road by Jim Cartwright will run at Oldham Coliseum from 16 September to 1 October 2022.

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