The Houghton Weavers have been entertaining folk for over 40 years with their unique blend of popular folk music, humour and audience participation. In their time together, the group - comprising Tony Berry, David Littler and Steve Millington - have performed thousands of concerts, recorded over 30 albums, starred in several of their own highly successful BBC radio and TV series, and made countless appearances on other programmes. The Houghton Weavers guarantee a wonderful evening of entertainment suitable for all the family. Their experience in the business together with their style and professionalism ensures that, as their motto says, they always ‘Keep Folk Smiling’.

Blown fuses, real and metaphorical, punctuate the action with flashes of pent up energy in this acclaimed play. The diminutive heroine frequently plunges the dilapidated house she shares with her alcoholic mother into darkness by playing her dead father's records at a volume matched only by the soulful power of her vocal impressions. Little Voice has a hidden talent: she can emulate every chanteuse from Judy Garland to Edith Piaf. She hides in her room, crooning and dreaming of love, while her disheveled mother mistakes a seedy agent's interest as affection rather than enthusiasm for the gold mine buried in her daughter's throat. This is an engaging fairy tale of despair, love and finally hope as LV finds a voice of her own.

A story of lives blighted by love, or the lack of it. Hester Collyer is discovered by her neighbours after her failed attempt to take her own life. Over the course the play she reveals the turmoil of her situation, having left a safe and comfortable marriage for a passionate affair with a semi-alcoholic former RAF pilot, Freddie Page. As Freddie loses interest, an increasingly desperate Hester faces an impossible choice between a return to her husband, a High Court Judge, or a life without her lover. Or is suicide the only option? How can she choose between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea?

This is a new event designed to showcase up and coming as well as existing talent in the Bolton area Writers were invited to submit short plays and the Bolton Little Theatre team assist them in rehearsal and presentation of the plays for performance.