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SIDES of Silence: Remembering the Battle of the Somme, with Oldham Theatre Workshop

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THE renovated Egyptian Room at Oldham's Old Town Hall offered a stunning backdrop to an immersive performance focused on the Battle of the Somme.

Oldham Theatre Workshop, in association with Oldham Local Studies and Archives, performed their acclaimed immersive theatre experience Sides of Silence: Remembering the Battle of the Somme on Saturday in the refurbished room at Oldham's Old Town Hall.

The play, which follows the journey of a group of men from their home town of Oldham to the battlefields of France, stunned audiences who gathered in the room to watch.

It also commemorated the centenary of the beginning of the Battle of Passchendaele, one of the most controversial battles of the First World War.

More than half a million men were killed or wounded during the battle which became notorious for the scale of its casualties and the horrors of the Flanders mud.

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