A NEW play is set to premiere next month at Bolton Octagon.

Entitled 100 years in work Town, it features a collection of 15 fascinating stories of true tales from the lives of local people.

Each has been adapted from recent oral history interviews by a team led by Bolton playwright Stephen Fielding. The story spans a century, lifting the veil on certain areas of local working life.

This provides a rare chance to watch a homegrown play about Bolton people.

Simon Stallworthy, former executive director, is directing the play and the cast features some of Bolton's well known amateur actors.

Documentary

The play will be staged at the Bill Naughton theatre within the Octagon, from July 12 to 14, Thursday to Saturday.

Last year Bolton Institute was awarded Year of the Artist funding for this documentary drama from North West Arts Board, the Foundation for Sports and the Arts, the Peggy Ramsay Foundation and the Bolton Millennium Fund.

Among those featured will be Mike Hall, a textiles lecturer at Bolton Institute, who will play Norman Pendlebury who worked for the GPO during the war. Other stories will feature the life and experiences of life as a blind switchboard operator during the 1960s.

Rehearsals for the play have taken place at the Albert Halls, which has provided the space free of charge.

Tickets, £3 or £2 concessions, are from the Octagon Theatre Box Office on 01204 520661.