Spring and Port Wine

Spring and Port Wine – Bolton Octagon, Saturday 11th February 2023 at 2:00pm. The cost is £16.50 contact Pam Carroll or Christine Hoey for tickets.

Bill Naughton’s beloved 1960s classic returns to the Octagon stage.

Rafe Crompton attempts to preside over his family with an iron fist, dispensing order and discipline. However, after an argument with his daughter over dinner and with a backdrop of a rapidly changing society, things fall apart over the course of a weekend as his four children assert their independence.

Will Rafe see that it is his attitude causing his family to break apart? Can love and humour prevail? Join us at the Cromptons’ as the family struggle to cope with the ups and downs of life in the 1960s working class Bolton in this touching and funny drama that has delighted Octagon audiences for over 50 years.

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