<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><font class="" face="Arial"><span class="" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Hello everyone!</span></font></div><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><font class="" face="Arial"><span class="" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class=""></span></font></div><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><font face="Arial" class=""><font class=""><span class="" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Toronto Canada-based impel Theatre and Oldham Coliseum Theatre present a special collaboration - a new performance of impel's remote digital performance of OBIE award-winner Caridad Svich’s An Acorn. Available On Demand through May 17 via </span></font><a href="https://www.coliseum.org.uk/shows/an-acorn-recorded-6401ag/" class="">Oldham Coliseum Theatre.</a></font></div><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><font face="Arial" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><font face="Arial" class="">Described as “a piece which s<span style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: rgb(5, 5, 5); white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">tretches what a theatre at home piece can achieve”, you can </span>read more about the production and collaboration via <a href="https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/stage/2021/05/05/only-two-of-the-four-actors-doing-the-zoom-play-an-acorn-will-have-rehearsed-it-and-thats-part-of-the-fun-of-it.html" class="">The Toronto Star’s Karen Fricker. </a></font></div><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><font class="" face="Arial"><span class="" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class=""></span></font></div><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><font face="Arial" class=""><font class=""><span class="" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">We are also hosting a free talkback about the show and digital theatre practice on May 13th at 8pm GMT - </span></font><a href="https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMpc-GuqDsvE9IdEuedjmvlBQ6x9OYygs-9" class="">signup available here.</a></font></div><a href="https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMpc-GuqDsvE9IdEuedjmvlBQ6x9OYygs-9" class=""><font face="Arial" class=""> <br class=""></font></a><div class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><font class="" face="Arial"><span class="" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Best, </span></font></div><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><font class="" face="Arial"><span class="" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Kendra</span></font></div><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><font face="Arial" class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">_______</span></font></div><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="BoldText" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; font-weight: bold; font-family: proxima-nova, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Presented by Oldham Coliseum Theatre and impel Theatre</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; font-family: proxima-nova, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" class=""><br style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;" class=""></span><span class="BoldText" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; font-weight: bold; font-family: proxima-nova, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">by Caridad Svich</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; font-family: proxima-nova, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" class=""><br style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;" class=""></span><span class="BoldText" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; font-weight: bold; font-family: proxima-nova, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Directed by Kendra Jones</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; font-family: proxima-nova, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" class=""><br style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;" class=""></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; font-family: proxima-nova, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" class=""><br style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;" class=""></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; font-family: proxima-nova, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" class=""><br style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;" class=""></span><span class="BoldText" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; font-weight: bold; font-family: proxima-nova, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Starring two actors from Greater Manchester: Mina Anwar and Darren Jeffries</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; font-family: proxima-nova, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" class=""><br style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;" class=""></span><span class="BoldText" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; font-weight: bold; font-family: proxima-nova, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">and two Canadian actors: Blythe Haynes and Ryan G Hinds</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; font-family: proxima-nova, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" class=""><br style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;" class=""></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; font-family: proxima-nova, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" class=""><br style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;" class=""></span><span class="ItalicText" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; font-style: italic; font-family: proxima-nova, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">“It seemed as if a certain part of the world changed forever…”</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; font-family: proxima-nova, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" class=""><br style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;" class=""></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; font-family: proxima-nova, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" class=""><br style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;" class=""></span><span style="font-family: proxima-nova, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242);" class="">Following a critically acclaimed digital North American run, </span><span class="ItalicText" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; font-style: italic; font-family: proxima-nova, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span class="BoldText" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; font-weight: bold;">An Acorn</span></span><span style="font-family: proxima-nova, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242);" class=""> returns in a cross-Atlantic collaboration between Oldham and Canada.</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; font-family: proxima-nova, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" class=""><br style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;" class=""></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; font-family: proxima-nova, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" class=""><br style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;" class=""></span><span style="font-family: proxima-nova, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242);" class="">Recorded from the live performance on Thursday 6 May, </span><span class="BoldText" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; font-weight: bold; font-family: proxima-nova, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Mina Anwar</span><span style="font-family: proxima-nova, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242);" class=""> (</span><span class="ItalicText" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; font-style: italic; font-family: proxima-nova, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">The Thin Blue Line, Everybody’s Talking About Jamie</span><span style="font-family: proxima-nova, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242);" class="">) and </span><span class="BoldText" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; font-weight: bold; font-family: proxima-nova, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Darren Jeffries</span><span style="font-family: proxima-nova, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242);" class="">(</span><span class="ItalicText" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; font-style: italic; font-family: proxima-nova, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Hollyoaks</span><span style="font-family: proxima-nova, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242);" class="">) recieved the script and some specific instructions just an hour before the performance, whilst Canadian actors </span><span class="BoldText" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; font-weight: bold; font-family: proxima-nova, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Blythe Haynes</span><span style="font-family: proxima-nova, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242);" class=""> and </span><span class="BoldText" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; font-weight: bold; font-family: proxima-nova, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Ryan G Hinds</span><span style="font-family: proxima-nova, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242);" class=""> will be rehearsed. </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; font-family: proxima-nova, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" class=""><br style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;" class=""></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; font-family: proxima-nova, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" class=""><br style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;" class=""></span><span style="font-family: proxima-nova, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242);" class="">Over one year on from the beginning of the first lockdown we continue to be isolated and, while vaccine rollouts mean that some semblance of ‘normal’ life will return, the experience of isolation, fear and upheaval will linger with us. </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; font-family: proxima-nova, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" class=""><br style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;" class=""></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; font-family: proxima-nova, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" class=""><br style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;" class=""></span><span style="font-family: proxima-nova, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242);" class="">We have learned in this time about our fellow humans, and while there have been moments of hope, the divide between factions feels to have grown into a chasm. Will we ever reconnect? Or has the awareness of these differences changed us forever?</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; font-family: proxima-nova, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" class=""><br style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;" class=""></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; font-family: proxima-nova, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" class=""><br style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;" class=""></span><span style="font-family: proxima-nova, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242);" class="">The two groups of actors have never met before. You, the audience, will also receive instructions on the day for how to curate your space and how you can interact.</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; font-family: proxima-nova, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" class=""><br style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;" class=""></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; font-family: proxima-nova, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" class=""><br style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;" class=""></span><span style="font-family: proxima-nova, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242);" class="">Follow </span><span class="BoldText" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; font-weight: bold; font-family: proxima-nova, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">@forest_acorn</span><span style="font-family: proxima-nova, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242);" class=""> on Instagram now, and leading up to the performance.</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; font-family: proxima-nova, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" class=""><br style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;" class=""></span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; margin: 1em 0px; line-height: 16px; font-family: proxima-nova, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; margin: 0.83em 0px; line-height: 25px; font-family: proxima-nova, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;" class="">How it works:</h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; margin: 1em 0px; line-height: 16px; font-family: proxima-nova, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" class="">When you buy a ticket we will send you a confirmation email and a separate email with a PDF ticket containing a link for your at-home sound design. <span style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;" class=""><br style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;" class=""></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;" class=""><br style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;" class=""></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;" class=""><br style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;" class=""></span>You will receive another email on or after Friday 7 May instructions on how you can interact with the performance and a link to download a free digital programme.<span style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;" class=""><br style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;" class=""></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;" class=""><br style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;" class=""></span>All tickets and emails will be sent to the email address associated with your Coliseum account. Please check your Coliseum account before booking to ensure we have the correct email address.<span style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;" class=""><br style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;" class=""></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;" class=""><br style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;" class=""></span>Your PDF Ticket may take a few minutes to appear in your emails. If you do not receive your ticket please check any junk folders before contacting us. Alternatively you can access it by logging into your Coliseum account via our website and clicking the E-tickets tab.<span style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;" class=""><br style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;" class=""></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;" class=""><br style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;" class=""></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;" class=""><br style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;" class=""></span><span class="ItalicText" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; font-style: italic;"><span class="BoldText" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; font-weight: bold;">An Acorn</span></span> takes place on Zoom. <span style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;" class=""><br style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;" class=""></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;" class=""><br style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;" class=""></span>An Acorn takes place on Zoom. You might need to create a Zoom account to log in if you don’t already have one. This only takes a few moments and is free – you can use your Google Account if you have one. <span style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;" class=""><br style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;" class=""></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;" class=""><br style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;" class=""></span>If you would like to use captioning on the performance, turn it on using the instructions <a target="_blank" href="https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/207279736-Closed-captioning-and-live-transcription" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; color: inherit; cursor: pointer;" class="">here</a> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;" class=""><br style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;" class=""></span></p></div></body></html>