SEPTEMBER 17 — FEBRUARY 18

A NEW SEASON OF THEATRE, ART, FILM, MUSIC & MORE

A REVOLUTION BETRAYED? EXPLORE THE LEGACIES OF THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION

EXCLUSIVE MUSIC INTERVIEWS: JON BODEN & AZIZ IBRAHIM

THIS IS HUMAN: TAKING OVER HOME

CELEBRATING ONE FILM WONDERS COntents HOME’S see 4 Quick Guide to the season CREATIVE more, 6 The Takeover: Joshua PATRONS save Wilkinson on This is Human money! 7 Don’t Miss Danny Boyle 8 September Rosa Barba Music that leaps from Lahore Phil Collins 11 Orbit 2017 Suranne Jones to Longsight. Boundary-breaking 14 October Nicholas Hytner Asif Kapadia 16 FilmFear: Halloween Jackie Kay MBE theatre fresh from the Fringe. at HOME Meera Syal CBE Orchestral dreams come true, 17 Music at HOME: Anne Louise SEE MORE, SAVE MONEY! Kershaw talks to Aziz Book tickets for three theatre shows at and others shattered by Ibrahim & Jon Boden the same time and save 20%. Look for 19 A Revolution Betrayed? the ticket saver badge on eligible shows. revolution. New commissions A major new season Offer does not include previews, £5 marking the centenary student super advance tickets or £10 tickets for shows in Theatre 1. Valid on rooted in India, Hong Kong and of the Russian Revolution top price tickets only. 22 Revolution Reloaded: Sam Williams previews Great theatre from Turkey - art, in fact, in all its A Revolution Betrayed? just £10 (or less!) diversity and vibrancy. with a look at the Most shows have seats priced from cultural scene in just £10. Russia today 24 November Students & JOB SEEKERS – go super 25 December advance FOR £5 26 Christmas at HOME Students & Job Seekers can also take We begin with Orbit, as it returns with a programme guitarist Aziz Ibrahim – to reimagine his acclaimed advantage of super advance tickets for 30 January most theatre shows and film screenings, of international theatre, much of it direct from album, From Lahore to Longsight. priced at just £5. Hurry, though: these (p11), and we also give room to other world 31 February low price tickets are very limited and sell voices via the Journeys Festival International (p14). As always, we nurture local talent. This is Human is 32 One Film Wonders: Jason out fast. Its line-up features refugee stories alongside a rare a series of events put together by a group of local Wood on his passion for Book now at homemcr.org or call dramatic reading by acclaimed poet, Lemn Sissay. emerging artists - who are as passionate about one time only filmmakers 0161 200 1500. bringing new audiences to HOME as we are (p7). We also take inspiration from the East. The centenary Later, PUSH 2018 showcases the newest theatre, 33 Now booking: Circle Mirror BE the heart of HOME. Transformation of the Russian Revolution – its energy and optimism, art and film being produced in the region (p31), while become a friend the dreams of a brave new nation – is played out HOME also hosts the first Folk Festival. 34 Bring the Family You can become a Member from just £30 across a season of theatre (including Chekhov’s Read our interview with Bellowhead singer Jon Boden 36 Get involved a year. You’ll receive priority booking on Uncle Vanya), new visual art commissions, spoken on page 18 to get a flavour of what to expect. selected theatre shows and film events, word and film (p19). Elsewhere, Israeli choreographer as well as a 10% discount on food in our 37 Access restaurant and 10% off in the bookshop. Hofesh Shechter stages his Grand Finale in Theatre While the world in which we live feels increasingly 38 Times, tickets and where 1 (p30), while film seasons feature both Hong Kong uncertain, the artists at HOME are stepping up to the Or, from just £7.50 a month, you can cinema (p15) and showcase India’s independent film challenges that lie ahead – taking ideas both from to find us become a HOME Friend and help us to produce and share new art. Why not scene (p8). home and abroad, and daring to imagine a different, upgrade your membership to support our creative future. So, perhaps we were wrong when work with young people and communities Much as we look outwards for inspiration, we also look we said our season could be summed up in one word. and help us to develop Manchester’s next generation of creative talent? to Manchester. This autumn, Manchester Camerata It should really be summed up in two. Global and brings two exceptional, intimate performances to local. The best of all worlds, here at HOME this Find out more. Call 0161 200 1500 HOME (p9 and p14). In September, the orchestra coming autumn and winter. or visit homemcr.org/friends. melds pop and visuals with the help of producer Sven Helbig (a Pet Shop Boys and Snoop Dog favourite), Dave Moutrey, Director and Chief Executive while in October it collaborates with Stone Roses Sheena Wrigley, Executive Director

Cover image: Katie West as Sonya in Uncle Vanya

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*Season / Not Just Bollywood Throughout Sep P8 SEASON HOME Projects / Manchester Fri 3 Nov - Sun 7 Jan Granada Foundation P24 Animation Festival Gallery *Festival / Journeys Festival International Mon 2 - Sun 15 Oct P14 Sat 18 Nov Thu 12 - Sun 15 Oct Here are some of our highlights from Queer Media Festival 2017 Various locations P24 *Season / The Revolution Betrayed P19 September 2017 to February 2018. BSL Led Exhibition tour / Sat 25 Nov Gallery P20 *Season / Creative Visions: Hong Kong Tue 17 Oct - Thu 2 Nov P15 The Return of Memory Cinema 1997 – 2017 including Herman Yau

Check back on homemcr.org Artist Film Weekender Fri 1 - Sun 3 Dec Cinemas P25 *Season / FilmFear Thu 26 - Tue 31 Oct P16 regularly for all the latest information, including the latest *PUSH 2018 Sat 13 - Sat 27 Jan Various locations P31 *Season / Spike is 60 Throughout Nov P24 confirmed titles in our weekly Preview / Noor Afshan Mirza Fri 9 Feb Gallery P31 Queer Media Festival Sat 18 Nov P24 programme of UK and international & Brad Butler: The Scar Manchester Animation Festival Tue 14 - Thu 16 Nov P24 independent films, talks, tours *Noor Afshan Mirza & Brad Butler: Sat 10 Feb - Sat 31 Mar Gallery P31 and events. The Scar *Artist Film Weekender Fri 1 - Sun 3 Dec P25 Season / Disability Film Season Mon 4 & Wed 6 Dec P25 Christmas / Tim Burton Trio From Fri 8 Dec P27 KEY THEATRE & DANCE Christmas/ Meet Me in St Louis Mon 11 Dec & Sat 23 Dec P27 Christmas/ It’s a Wonderful Life From Sat 9 Dec P27 RED = PREMIERE National Theatre River Stage Fri 4 - Sun 6 Aug National Theatre, P7 Christmas/ The Muppet Christmas Carol Sun 17 Dec & Thu 21 Dec P27 *Presented by HOME *Season / Jack Rosenthal on Throughout Jan P30 *This is Human Thu 3 - Thu 31 Aug Theatre 1, Gallery, P7 Jack Rosenthal Street Cinema, Foyer *PUSH 2018 Sat 13 - Sat 27 Jan Various locations P31 Robert Webb Fri 1 Sep Theatre 1 P8 The Wedding Tue 12 - Sat 16 Sep Theatre 1 P9 Letters to Morrissey Tue 12 - Sat 16 Sep Theatre 2 P10 *People, Places & Things Fri 22 Sep - Sat 7 Oct Theatre 1 P10 MUSIC

*Orbit 2017 Thu 28 Sep - Sun 15 Oct Theatre 1, Theatre 2, P11 Q Park, outside UPCLOSE Manchester Camerata at HOME / Sat 9 Oct Gallery P9 HOME & The Briton’s Sven Helbig: Pocket Symphonies Protection UPCLOSE Manchester Camerata at HOME / Wed 11 Oct Theatre 1 P14 Festival / Journeys Festival International Mon 2 - Sun 15 Oct Various locations P14 Aziz Ibrahim: From Lahore to Longsight

Charge Tue 17 & Wed 18 Oct Theatre 1 P15 Manchester Folk Festival Thu 19 - Sun 22 Oct Various locations P16 *Uncle Vanya Fri 3 - Sat 25 Nov Theatre 1 P19 The Suicide 27 Oct - 4 Nov Theatre 2 P21 Underground Thu 23 – Sat 25 Nov Theatre 2 P21 THEATRE BROADCASTS Pen:Chant Fri 24 – Sat 25 Nov Theatre 2 P21

Real Magic Wed 29 Nov - Fri 1 Dec Theatre 1 P25 RSC Live: Coriolanus Wed 11 Oct Meow Meow Wed 6 Dec Theatre 1 P28 RSC Live: Twelfth Night Wed 14 Feb Tiger Lillies Thu 7 Dec Theatre 1 P28 More live theatre broadcasts to be announced. For details, visit homemcr.org Family / Red Riding Hood and the Wolf Thu 7 - Sat 30 Dec Theatre 2 P29 Hot Brown Honey Tue 12 - Sat 23 Dec Theatre 1 P29

*PUSH 2018 Sat 13 - Sat 27 Jan Various locations P31 Grand Finale Wed 31 Jan - Sat 3 Feb Theatre 1 P30 *Circle Mirror Transformation Fri 9 - Sat 24 Mar Theatre 1 P33

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Vanishing Point Vanishing

ROAD MOVIES SAT 22 JUL – WED 23 AUG

From the earliest days of cinema, the road movie has been synonymous with American culture and the image the country has presented both to itself and to the This is a fresh approach to experiencing world, ranking amongst the country’s most THIS IS HUMAN art, curated, produced and commissioned enduring gifts to contemporary film. THE DON’T MISS THU 3 - THU 31 AUG by a group of 18 of Manchester’s emerging In the Gallery, Theatre 1, creatives, a collective formed through Throughout July and August, we present Box Office, Cinemas HOME’s Project X, featuring work from a season of international road movies that local artists and community groups. challenge and explore issues of sexuality, This distinctive and ambitious series of gender, class, race and nationhood, from events will challenge your expectations Read more about Project X and the team directors including Wim Wenders, Richard of HOME through a programme of unique in our feature on page 6 Sarafian, Theo Angelopoulos and and unusual happenings in our galleries, Aki Kaurismäki. TAKEOVER homemcr.org/this-is-human cinemas and theatres through the month of August. homemcr.org/road-movies

Taking inspiration from the brain and “This is Human will the four main areas controlling emotion, On 4 August 2017, HOME will be taken over in spectacular Why is it that not everyone feels comfortable in the building movement, biological rhythm and sense, fling the doors style by a major new mixed-artform project, This is Human, that each one of the Project X team has become so comfortable this innovative project will combine sensory of HOME wide open developed by Project X. Member Joshua Wilkinson tells us in? This is Human is an opportunity for you to come down and installations, live performances, interactive more about the team and what to expect. experience first-hand a variety of different art forms at their best. experiences and celebrations. and welcome new We aren’t just creating another exhibition or piece of theatre, Project X is a collective of artists from across Greater we are creating an opportunity for you to experience HOME like audiences from Manchester, aged between 18 - 25. The collective is made up of never before through interactive installations and special events. across our vibrant filmmakers, dancers, spoken word artists, performers, visual artists, HOME has offered a group of emerging artists, not only a space, photographers, musicians and a scientist. Over the last year, we’ve but a whole venue as a platform for their work. We are also city.” developed an innovative artistic vision that now guides us as we actively collaborating with a variety of local artists, who will begin to curate, commission and produce a unique experience for work alongside us in producing our event. HOME - This is Human. In my opinion there is no better place than Manchester THEATRE We first came together in August 2016, when we began for young emerging artists at the moment. From spoken word our residency with a 3-week research and development period. nights to dance events, Manchester has a lot to offer. We are We took part in workshops with industry professionals from privileged to live and work in such a diverse and cultured city different artistic disciplines, as well as visiting and viewing many where opportunities arise within a safe creative environment. different exhibitions and performances so we could experience This sort of environment helps artists to make their ideas a and learn about art forms other than our own and allow a joint reality. HOME have offered that opportunity to us, the Project X vision to form within the collective. We’ve developed skills in collective, and we will not disappoint! production, programming, curation, outreach, digital media and much more and we’re continually supported by HOME throughout Personally, the most valuable thing that I have taken from our residency. being part of Project X so far is the support I’ve received from the rest of the group and the skills that we’ve now shared. Working The initial concept for This is Human came from our closely with the others and being able to collaborate and share joint desire to strip back the pretense that can come with the the passions we have for what we create has been enlightening presentation of certain arts events. We want to look at what and loads of fun. Having somewhere like HOME to meet regularly really interests us as humans and put aside labels and class has been fantastic. Being surrounded by the artwork, films and whilst speaking directly to the audience and offering them an theatre programmed at HOME has been very influential to me. opportunity to immerse themselves within the work we create. All of the different events and being able to pop into the gallery This is Human will showcase HOME as you’ve never seen it before. when we have a spare five minutes has been a great help when BOURGEOIS & MAURICE. photo: Christa-Holka Project X is well and truly taking over the place, every nook and pushing me through the process. It has reminded me that what I cranny. From the theatre to the gallery this large scale multi- want to do isn’t that far away and that there is always someone disciplinary event will challenge the way we view art and how it that can help you along the way, you just have to ask them. satirical weirdos Bourgeois & Maurice, is presented. Just imagine walking into a theatre with no ticket Project X has also been a great opportunity for me to explore HOME WEEKEND: superb theatre from Bootworks, In Bed to find, once in the auditorium, there are no actors on stage, different areas within the industry. I joined the project as an NATIONAL THEATRE’S With My Brother, A Mighty Heart and Little what happens next? Or entering a gallery with nothing on the actor and within the year I have had the opportunity to present Soldier, thrilling dance from Boy Blue’s walls but a large spectacle in the centre of the room, what do fortnightly vlogs and produce an interactive installation for RIVER STAGE FESTIVAL Young Companies and House of Ghetto, you look at and is it art? This is Human is for everyone, our main event in August. I hope that the work we’ve produced FRI 4 - SUN 6 AUG sparkling spoken word and comedy from old and young. will challenge your mind and help you see things from a Pen:Chant and fantastic music from different angle. River Stage returns to London’s National As a collective we made a decision early on in the process Theatre in Summer 2017, for five long Josephine Oniyama, Mr Wilson’s Second that we wanted to bring new audiences to HOME. Whilst See page 7 for more about This is Human. weekends of live music, dance, performances, Liners, The Beat Chics and Dave Haslam. HOME offers great theatre, art and cinema all year round with DJs and workshops on the outdoor stage. programming that is unique to the city, the collective believe We’ll see you there! that not many local people from surrounding communities or HOME takes over from younger people visit regularly. Project X asks the question ‘why?’. 4 - 6 August, bringing an eclectic line-up Full line up available from of performers and music, showing London nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows the best of what Manchester (and beyond) /river-stage-2017 has to offer. Featuring sequin-clad

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Not Just Bollywood, a season of Indian MANCHESTER CAMERATA

films hits our screens this autumn. In 2014, Court Image: The Lunchbox was the only independent AT HOME Indianfilm released anywhere in the UK. An endearing tale of love, loneliness and Manchester Camerata bring their hugely successful the ritual of eating, it was an unlikely Upclose series to HOME. Upclose brings performances international success, a ‘crossover’ Indian film that suggested the consolidation of by exceptional performers and ensembles to new the ‘Hindie’ (Hindi + Indie) new wave. spaces, creating intimate and magical music. Independent Indian cinema including New Waves in Tamil and Malayalam has flourished over the past decade, producing edgy, alternative works such as Ankhon Dekhi (2013), Ship of Theseus (2013), Court (2014) and Thithi (2015). However, Sven Helbig: many of these films have not made it onto UK cinema screens. With such energy and Pocket SEPTEMber change in Indian film, this new season at This project is supported by Film Hub North SEPTEMBER HOME makes for essential viewing. It plugs West Central, proud to be a member of the Symphonies audiences into a vibrant independent scene BFI Film Audience Network. SAT 9 OCT, 19:30 – and fills an until-now overlooked gap in Gallery British film programming. homemcr.org/not-just-bollywood

Join us in the gallery to hear some pop photo: Claudia Weingart classical perfection. Sven Helbig loves contemporary music and knows what it FILM SEASON takes to make a great pop song. An award- winning producer of the titans of popular MELVILLE - ESSAYS music, including Pet Shop Boys and Snoop IN EXISTENTIALISM Dog, Helbig uses his know-how to perfectly THROUGHOUT AUGUST & SEPTEMBER distil the grandiosity of classical music into pocket symphonies. Visual artist Chris

Le Samourai Taking in a career that encompassed Paul Daniels provides exhilarating motion wartime dramas - Melville fought in the graphics to compliment the music of the French army and then in the Resistance - night in our ground floor gallery. and a Cocteau collaboration, Jean–Pierre Melville is one of the most admired figures See page 14 for the next concert in the in post-war French cinema. Upclose series.

Briefly a figurehead for the French New Wave before deciding to go his own way, Melville maintained an incredible independence by establishing his own studios. An admirer of American popular THEATRE culture, he is perhaps best remembered Gecko presents for the superlative, meticulously executed, existential crime dramas he produced in the 1960s. The season, in collaboration with THE WEDDING BFI Southbank, will offer new restorations TUE 12 - SAT 16 SEP, 19:30 of many of the filmmaker’s finest works. The creator of Institute, Amit Lahav, homemcr.org/melville returns to HOME with his latest creation, inspired by the complexities of human nature: the struggle between love and anger, creation and destruction, community THEATRE and isolation. In a blur of wedding dresses and contractual obligations, Gecko’s ROBERT WEBB extraordinary ensemble of international performers guides audiences through a FRI 1 SEP, 19:30 dystopian world in which we are all brides, wedded to society. Combining movement, Robert Webb joins us to talk about his imagery and provocative narratives in heartbreakingly funny new book, How Not Gecko’s trademark style, the company’s to be a Boy. Looking back over his life, from seventh touring production brings these schoolboy crushes (on girls and boys) to contracts into question with an emotionally discovering the power of making people charged and spectacular performance. Gecko can offer in-school workshops laugh (Cambridge Footlights, Peep Show), We all want to believe in our journey, but for up to 20 pupils as part of this and from losing his beloved mother to where are we heading? Is it too late to stop, production. Visit www.geckotheatre.com becoming a husband and father, Robert “Sinewy and to go back, to fall in love to start again? or email [email protected] for Webb considers the absurd expectations more information. sensuous, fresh boys and men have thrust upon them at Theatre 1 every stage of life. and ever-fluid… homemcr.org/the-wedding Supported by Arts Council England and Tickets £24 - £10 (conc. available) Ipswich Borough Council. Co-commissioned mesmerising to The evening will be followed by a by DanceEast and New Wolsey Theatre watch… Compelling, book signing. Ipswich, Northern Stage, HOME Manchester, and Beijing 707 N-Theatre Co. powerful and Theatre 1 Ltd (Edinburgh Fringe Showcase in China), homemcr.org/robert-webb in association with Lighthouse, Poole and evocative.” Tickets £15 - £10 (conc. available) Warwick Arts Centre, supported by The The Reviews Hub Point, Eastleigh.

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THEATRE THEATRE THEATRE

Gary McNair LETTERS TO THU 28 SEP - SAT 15 OCT Morrissey TUE 12 - SAT 16 SEP, 19:45 Orbit 2017 brings together innovative new work from theatre makers across the globe who want to explore our place in the This year ORBIT is It’s 1997. You’re 11. You’re sad, lonely and teaming up with Journeys

SEPTEMber scared of doing anything that could get world. Many of these shows come straight from the Edinburgh Headlong, National An intoxicating play about surviving in you singled out by the hopeless, angry Festival Fringe, exploring our relationship with the past, how Festival International the modern world. people in your home town. to present some extra Theatre, HOME & we remember, the stories we tell ourselves and what it is that Following a critically-acclaimed, sold- One day you see a man on telly. makes us who we are. special events to run Exeter Northcott present out season at the National Theatre and He’s mumbling, yet electrifying. He sings: alongside the Festival “I am human and I need to be loved, just in London’s West End, People, Places line-up. See page 14 for PEOPLE, & Things begins a UK tour at HOME this like everybody else does.” How do we navigate today’s world, forging and challenging our autumn, with a new cast to be announced. economic, political and social circumstance? What about our programme information. PLACES This guy gets it. Written by Duncan Macmillan (City of plans for the future and the threats to our ideals and aspirations & THINGS Glass, 1984, Every Brilliant Thing, Lungs) You become obsessed with him. Later, we hold dear and hope will keep us safe? when you need someone, you write to him. FRI 22 SEP - SAT 7 OCT, 19:30 and directed by Headlong Artistic Director A lot. SAT 30 SEP, WED 4 & SAT 7 OCT, 14:00 Jeremy Herrin (This House, The Nether, Wolf Hall/Bring Up the Bodies), People, Join us on a journey through what it means to be human in Unless otherwise stated, all It’s 2017. You find those letters and ask By Duncan Macmillan Places & Things is designed by Olivier yourself: “Has the world changed, or have these unstable times. shows take place in Theatre 2 Directed by Jeremy Herrin and Tony Award winning designer Bunny Christie (The Curious Incident of the I changed?” and tickets are £12:50 Dog in the Night-Time.) Created by Gary McNair and Gareth homemcr.og/orbit-2017 (conc. available) Emma was having the time of her life. Nicholls, returning to HOME after their Now she’s in rehab. award-winning sell-out show A Gambler’s Guide to Dying, Letters to Morrissey is Her first step is to admit that she has a about confronting the worst thing you’ve problem. But the problem isn’t with Emma, done - and hoping that you can still be it’s with everything else. She needs to good person. tell the truth. But she’s smart enough to know that there’s no such thing. When Theatre 2 “IT SLAMS DOWN intoxication feels like the only way to homemcr.org/letters-to-morissey survive the modern world, how can she Tickets £12.50 (conc. available) Scottee Greg Wohead Greg Wohead WITH THAT ever sober up? BRAVADO HURTLING THE BACKSEAT OF CHARACTERISTIC Theatre 1 THU 28, FRI 29, SAT 30 SEP, 19:00 SAT 30 SEP, MY CAR (AND OTHER homemcr.org/people-places-things The Briton’s Protection SHOWS BETWEEN 12.00-18.00 HEADLONG RUSH.” HOME Roof Terrace SAFE PLACES) Tickets £26.50 - £10 (conc. available) SAT 30 SEP, OBSERVER Scottee grew up around strong, brave Previews Fri 10 Sep £10; and violent men and boys. Bravado is his “I have a message for you from the past.” SHOWS BETWEEN 19.30 - 22.00 Sat 23, Mon 25, Tue 26 Sep £12.50 memoir of working class masculinity from Ok, it’s a message from this morning, so Top level of Q Park On stage seats £10 (conc. available)  1991 to 1999 as seen by a sheep in wolf’s it may be the recent past. But it’s still the clothing. Bravado explores the graphic past. This is an invitation to remember a The Backseat of My Car (and other safe Caption Subtitled performance: nature of maleness and the extent it previous version of yourself, to imagine places) is an interactive true storytelling “A THRILLING, Tue 3 October, 19:30 will go to succeed. Blood, spit and tears a future version and to wonder who that piece for one audience member at a are set against the drunken backdrop of makes you now. time that takes place somewhere off by PROVOCATIVE BSL Interpreted performance: aggressive sensitivity and Oasis songs. ourselves. It’s about being a teenager Wed 4 October, 19:30 This show is not for the weak hearted – Hurtling is an outdoor performance for one and those moments when you’re on the EVENING.” it includes graphic accounts of violence, with a cassette player and headphones verge of something exciting. It’s just me Audio Described Touch Tour: abuse, assault and sex. that is re-made for each location in which and you, and it kinda feels like something Sat 7 October, 13:00 it is performed. It’s a glimpse of a fleeting could happen. This performance is suitable for moment as it zooms past; an attempt to Audio Described performance: over 18s only grasp at a slippery present. Tickets £5 Sat 7 October, 14:00 Tickets £5 “BRAVADO IS AN ASTONISHING “A TRULY INTIMATE ONE-ON-ONE SHOW. IT’S AN OPEN WOUND THAT COMING OF AGE JOURNEY WHOSE BLEEDS PAINFUL TRUTHS.” “ONE OF THE BEST EXPERIENCES GENTLE AND RICHLY EVOCATIVE The Stage I’VE HAD AT THIS YEAR’S FRINGE.” NARRATIVE BRINGS AUDIENCE Lyn Gardner, AND PERFORMER INTO GENUINE EMOTIONAL AS WELL AS PHYSICAL CLOSENESS.” Total Theatre

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Selina Thompson SALT FRI 6 OCT, 19:00, SAT 7 OCT, 21:00

A journey to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. Selina Thompson’s new show is We Are Ian, photo: credit Matt Austin about grief, ancestry, home, forgetting Bourgeois & Maurice: Presented by HOME and Journeys and colonialism. It’s about being part of a HOW TO SAVE THE WORLD WITHOUT Festival International. diaspora. In February, two artists got on a REALLY TRYING cargo ship, and retraced one of the routes LEMN SISSAY: TUE 10 & WED 11 OCT, 21:00 SOMETHING DARK of the Transatlantic Slave Triangle – from the UK to Ghana to Jamaica, and back. FRIDAY 13 OCTOBER, 19:30 Returning after the Christmas Their memories, their questions and their Theatre 1 extravaganza Yule Be Sorry, Bourgeois grief took them along the bottom of the & Maurice return to HOME to deliver Atlantic and through the figurative realm A rare chance to see a dramatic reading of their most hilarious, scathing and joyfully of an imaginary past.It was a long journey the acclaimed one-man play by celebrated cynical show yet. Digging their shellac nails backwards, in order to go forwards. performance poet, Lemn Sissay. deep into our post-modern, post-gender, This show is what they brought back. post-Brexit world, riotous original songs Something Dark tells the story of Lemn meet hyper surreal, high fashion, in this Sissay’s upbringing in children’s homes provocative, thought-provoking and and foster care, and the search for his hysterical catwalk through the quagmire family and true identity. Originally directed of current affairs. Image: Salt by John McGrath (National Theatre of Wales / MIF), Something Dark has been Tickets £15 (conc. available) performed throughout the world to great critical acclaim.  Javaad Alipoor “CLEVER, SPIKY AND HUMANE.” Tickets £15 (conc. available) The Scotsman THE BELIEVERS “IT WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE TO ARE BUT BROTHERS COME AWAY FROM THIS SHOW In Bed With My Brother MON 9, TUE 10, WED 11 OCT, 19:00 UNMOVED AND UNINSPIRED.” THU 12 OCT, 21:00 WE ARE IAN Metro THU 12 OCT, 19:00, FRI 13 OCT, 20:00 We live in a time where old orders are SAT 14 OCT, 21:00 collapsing: from the postcolonial nation states of the Middle East, to the EU and 1989. Manchester. The year that everything the American election. Through it all, tech changed from black and white into crazy savvy and extremist groups rip through technicolour. A frenzy of drugs, beats and twentieth century political certainties. bucket hats. Illegal raves. Acid parties. Amidst this, a generation of young men Just jumping up and down in a field find themselves burning with resentment; and throwing two fingers to Thatcher… without the money, power and sex they Remember it? HOW TO WIN AGAINST think they deserve. This crisis of masculinity HISTORY leads them into an online world of fantasy, Betrand Lesca & Nasi Voutsas, Betrand Lesca & Nasi Voutsas ARC Because we don’t. We weren’t even born. SATURDAY 14 OCT, 19:00 violence and reality. co-produced by Fellswoop Theatre PALMYRA DANIEL BYE: But Ian was. And Ian does remember. SUNDAY 15 OCT, 17:00 Writer and theatre maker Javaad Alipoor EUROHOUSE TUE 3 OCT, 21:00 & WED 4 OCT, 19:00 INSTRUCTIONS FOR So, we’re going back to 1989. We’re gonna The 5th Marquis of Anglesey burned spent time in this digital realm, exploring MON 2 & TUE 3 OCT, 19:00 get off our peanuts. We’re gonna bounce brightly, briefly and transvestitely at BORDER CROSSING the blurry and complex world of extremists, “This show has been really difficult to around like idiots. And Ian’s going to show the end of the 19th Century, blowing THU 5 & FRI 6 OCT, 19:00 spies, journalists and fantasists. This bold “Bienvenue. Kalosórisma. Welcome. make. I don’t want to make a big deal or us how. We’re mad fer it. And you will be his family’s colossal fortune on diamond SAT 7 OCT, 19:00 show weaves together their stories. We are so happy to see you all here. anything… But he’s been really difficult.” too. Let’s party. frocks, lilac-dyed poodles and putting Some of you we know rather well, some A twelve-year-old girl sneaks across the on simply amazing plays to which nobody of you we don’t.” Following the success of Eurohouse, Bert We Are Ian is about our mate Ian, who border of her own country. Her parents came. After he died at 29, his family & Nasi return with Palmyra, an exploration was our age in the late 80s and early 90s watch her on a computer screen. The burned every record of him, and carried Two performers – one Greek, one French of revenge, the politics of destruction and acid house scene in Manchester. The show works of a half-forgotten performance on as though he never was. – dance and shout, cry and sing, agree what we consider to be barbarian. is made from recordings of conversations artist seem to hold the key to bringing and disagree, about life in the Eurohouse. we’ve had with Ian, and scored by his down a brutal system operating on our A hilarious, ripped-up new extravaganza Palmyra invites people to step back from favourite tracks from the era. behalf and under our noses. Do you by Seiriol Davies about being too weird A darkly comic look at the EU’s founding the news, looking at what lies beneath – for the world, but desperately not wanting ideals and what got lost along the way. and beyond – civilisation. join in? Or do you look the other way?  The Paper Birds it to forget you. Blending storytelling with a series of live “Be Ian, be you, but really, interventions from the audience (don’t Made in transit between Greece and the An essential piece of political drama Mobile just be in this audience.”  worry, you don’t have to do anything UK, Eurohouse was nominated for a Total mixing fact and fiction, Palmyra premieres WED 11 -SUN 15 OCT, A Younger Theatre “THIS MUSICAL ABOUT A CROSS- Theatre Award at the 2016 Edinburgh at ORBIT 2017. you don’t want to!), the show itself is as unstable as the world it describes. BETWEEN 10.00-20.15 DRESSING MARQUESS IS A WORK Festival Fringe. Outside HOME OF GENIUS.” “Lesca and Voutsas are  “A work of genius.” the perfect double act.” An ordinary looking caravan. An “This wonderfully playful, Daily Telegraph The Stage extraordinary experience. A treasure trove POST SHOW DJ DARRYL intimate and ultimately of magical theatre and digital wizardry. MARSDEN IN THE BAR moving show … constantly SPINNING HACIENDA CLASSICS. pits idealism against self- Step into our mobile home, a familiar place FRI 13 OCT, 21:00 interest and pragmatism.” of childhood songs and family portraits, The Guardian where the wallpaper projects faded memories. A magical place where the radio sings lullabies and inanimate objects live and breathe. A place where we remember who we are and where we have come from, as we shape who we want to be. Made for audiences of up to eight people at a time, this is an inmate 40-minute theatre show set in a caravan, based on interviews conducted in communities across the UK.

Tickets £10 (conc. available)

13 THEATRE/FILM Mohamad Khayata: Stitching My Syria Back MUSIC/UPCLOSE DANCE Returning for a second year, Journeys Festival International is back at HOME celebrating the creative talent of exceptional refugee and asylum seeker artists, and sharing refugee experiences through great art and culture.

With Journeys Festival International Photo: Dan Tucker popping up from Portsmouth to Palermo “THE QUICKSILVER in 2017, this year’s #JFIMcr festival will be bigger than ever with more opportunities CAST ALMOST to get involved in workshops, discussions AZIZ IBRAHIM: NEVER STOPS and Coffee Shop Conversations. Join us FROM LAHORE TO as we share and celebrate the incredible MOVING. DAZZLING” talent and stories of refugee and LONGSIGHT ON SCATTERED JOURNEYS asylum seeker artists who now call WED 11 OCT, 19:30 FESTIVAL Manchester home. Theatre 1

OCTOBER www.journeysfestival.com Theatre 1 will be home to the pioneering OCTOBER INTERNATIONAL #JFIMcr Desi-guitar sound of Aziz Ibrahim, backed MON 2 - SUN 15 OCT @JourneysFest by the Camerata and featuring South East Asian musicians. The night offers a radical orchestral interpretation of Aziz’s 2012 album From Lahore to Longsight, that charted the inspirational journey of his Motionhouse presents Breathtaking choreography and a gripping Theatre 1 father from Pakistan to Manchester as narrative bring to life stories about the homemcr.org/charge FESTIVAL LINE-UP: well as new compositions. Aziz is a master power of , the Earth’s weather Tickets £22 - £10 (conc. available) collaborator, working with such artists CHARGE systems, how energy works in our own as , Paul Weller and TUE 17 & WED 18 OCT, 19:30 bodies and humans as energy manipulators. REKREI VR PALMYRA POST-SHOW The Smith’s Mike Joyce — there’s a reason INSTALLATION Discussion why his talent is so highly prized amongst Premiering in October 2017, Motionhouse’s The production is a unique collaboration MON 2 - WED 4 OCT, 12:00 - 21:00 WED 4 OCT, 20:00 his peers. For an artist synonymous with electrifying new multi-media production between art and science: Motionhouse Ground Floor Foyer musical melding and cultural fusion it is explores themes of energy, using the is working with partners from Oxford Join us for a post-show discussion about little wonder that he is such a good fit company’s renowned fusion of thrilling University to support the creative and Rekrei is a crowdsourced project to collect the destruction of cultural heritage in the for ‘probably Britain’s ‘most adventurous dance-circus, enthralling digital imagery choreographic process, putting science photographs of monuments, museums, and Middle East following Betrand and Nasi’s orchestra’ (The Times). and extraordinary set design to create a at the heart of artistic practice. artefacts damaged by natural disasters Palmyra, showing as part of Orbit 2017. world onstage ranging in scale from the or human intervention, and to use those The company will be in conversation See feature, p17 for our interview planetary to the microscopic. data to create 3D representations and alongside Dr Gemma Sou (University of with Aziz Ibrahim. help to preserve our global, shared, human Manchester, Director MSc International heritage. Using VR and photogrammetric Disaster Management / Humanitarian techniques this innovative installation Video Games) and Matthew Vincent allows viewers to explore recreated three- (creator of Rekrei). FILM SEASON dimensional representations of heritage that has been lost around the globe. See page 12 for information on Palymra. CREATIVE Free / Rekrei.org TELLING THE HISTORY VISIONS: HONG FILM OF JOURNEYS KONG CINEMA SAT 7 OCT, 16:30 IN ANOTHER LIFE Cinema Bar at HOME 1997-2017 TUE 17 OCT - THU 2 NOV

(CTBA) + Q&A Join artist and performer Selina Image: Running on Karma TUE 3 OCT, 18:00 (EXACT TIME TBC) Thompson and Historian Dr Peter Gatrell 2017 marks twenty years since Hong (Humanitarian and Conflict Response Kong was handed back to China. Timed Dir Jason Wingard / GB 2016 / 95 mins Institute, University of Manchester) to with this anniversary, HOME is pleased to (approx.) / English, French, Arabic discuss the history of journeys, and how collaborate with Create Hong Kong and wEng subtitles we can authentically and artistically retell the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office these stories. Opening with an extract London, with the project managed by the Elie Haddad, Toyah Frantzen, of Selina Thompson’s salt (see p14). Hong Kong International Film Festival Yousef Jubeh, Biniyam Biruk Theshome Society, to offer a specially selected season of work that reflects both the excellence The first feature film from Manchester- LEMN SISSAY: and diversity of contemporary filmmaking based director Jason Wingard, In Another Something Dark in Hong Kong. Life is a bold mix of documentary and FRI 13 OCT, 19:30 – 21:00 fictional drama, shot over a year in the Maybe not the production powerhouse Calais Jungle. Adnan (Elie Haddad) and it once was, Creative Visions reflects the See Page 13 for detail Bana (Toyah Frantzen) have left war-torn richness of work being produced in what is Syria in order to reach the UK. Travelling still one of East Asia’s most significant film through Europe with money running low, industries. Beginning with a restoration of they are forced into the notorious Fruit Chan’s landmark Made in Hong Kong Calais Jungle. (1997), the season encompasses respected names, such as Johnnie To represented by Faced with the prospect of a risky illegal the brilliantly absurdist Running on Karma More titles to be confirmed along entry to the UK or the squalor of the camp (2003) and the socially engaged Life without with guests. they decide to take their chances on the Principle (2011), and lesser-known classics trucks and ferry in a desperate bid to make such as Patrick Tam’s multi-award winning Check homemcr.org/creative-visions it to the UK. After this our Exile (2006). In addition we will for details. celebrate the work of Hong Kong maverick This screening will include a post-screening Herman Yau, whose 2016 horror film Nessun Q&A with director, Jason Wingard. Dorma will provide chills over the Halloween period (see p16).

14 BOOK NOW AT HOMEmcr.org or call 0161 200 1500 BOOK NOW AT HOMEmcr.org or call 0161 200 1500 15 MUSIC MUSIC MANCHESTER FOLK FESTIVAL AHEAD OF A GREAT SEASON OF LIVE MUSIC THU 19 - SUN 22 OCT, TIMES VARY AT HOME, ANNE LOUISE KERSHAW CATCHES UP WITH MANCHESTER MUSIC LEGEND AZIZ HOME is delighted to host the Manchester Folk Festival, a major new festival of English IBRAHIM AND FOLK PIONEER JON BODEN. folk and acoustic roots music. From songs of struggle to joyful reels, from traditional to experimental, the festival will celebrate contemporary folk as it straddles genres, embraces cultures and absorbs Aziz Ibrahim, PHOTO: Richard Battye new influences.

Presenting festival stage giants and folk club legends, the programme includes Afro Celt Sound System, Jon Boden and the Remnant Kings, Kathryn Tickell,

OCTOber Tom Robinson, Keston Cobblers Club, and The Young ‘Uns.

Performing alongside them are exciting Events are individually priced. new voices and rising stars such as folk- Tickets £23.50 - £9 from punk double-bass player Nina Harries, the homemcr.org/manchester-folk-festival traditional folk singer Cohen Braithwaite- Folk Festival Ticket Deal: Buy four Kilcoyne, singer-songwriter and visual Manchester Folk Festival shows in one artist Jinnwoo, and the innovative Hannah transaction and get 20% discount on James’ show Jig Doll, combining percussive ticket price. For full event information dance, music and song. visit manchesterfolkfestival.org.uk Aziz Ibrahim: The festival takes place in the city over See feature, p18 for our interview one weekend. HOME will play host to with Jon Boden. indoor gigs and an outdoor stage, creating a festival hub. Gorilla, The Ritz and The A story of identity International Anthony Burgess Foundation will also host gigs, and you can get involved too, with workshops, sing-arounds and in-conversations with artists. This season, HOME is working in partnership with Manchester Manchester Camerata, Ibrahim & Dalbir Singh Rattan will Experience the spirit of a festival in a field, Camerata to present two brand new shows for their UpClose develop this new work which will result in a performance at HOME right in the heart of the city. series – unique concerts connecting local and international alongside a visual representation of the journey as part of South artists with members of the orchestra. Asia 2017, which marks partition and will take place around the city and the UK. In terms of at the collaboration, it seems to One such partnership is with legendary Manchester be an organic fit for Ibrahim, “Because of the things that have musician Aziz Ibrahim; guitarist with the Stone Roses and Simply been happening in my life this past year or so, I’m very much Red and collaborator with artists such as Paul Weller and Mike interested in visual arts, performing arts and film. We struck up FILM/HALLOWEEN AT HOME Joyce of . a conversation based on being interested in appealing to all of The collaboration is set to bring into multi-media realisation the senses really. I wanted to create a complete picture so that FilmFear Herman Yau: NESSUN DORMA Lahore to Longsight, Ibrahim’s debut and cult status album. Ahead people could feel if they came to the show they were experiencing of the collaboration we talked about what the project means to the whole story. They will get an audio experience and a visual THU 26 - TUE 31 OCT him and why the time is right to finally stage this legendary album. experience, any of the senses that we could appeal to we explored. I wanted to bring this together, which seemed right Following our successful 2016 collaboration “I always had a dream about working with an orchestra”, up the Camarata’s street and HOME seems very much supportive in which we presented a terrifying mix of explains Ibrahim, “it predominantly comes from when I started to of that contemporary approach.” neglected classics and innovative new compose, my compositions are, I hate to say the word, but epic. British work (including Prevenge and They tend to have film score or soundtrack qualities, and I tend “We’re not playing the whole album, just the relevant parts The Ghoul), FilmFear returns for more to compose and arrange with instrumentation in mind not just with new compositions to make up the missing links of the story”, scare related shenanigans. guitar and drums as is kind of usual for most rock bands. I kind of which although specific to Aziz and his father, very much is the envisage the parts being played by an orchestra in the first place story of partition itself. “I was born in Manchester and I wrote Hosted in collaboration with Film4, so this is like a dream come true to have an orchestra, particularly songs growing up in Manchester so there’s music that represents there will be a similar mix of classic and the Manchester Camarata, approach me and ask me to compose that.” The UpClose performance has enabled the story to be fully contemporary films, and a series of and arrange with them.” told, “That is the complete story. It’s the children of partition, their director talks and co-curated events. output, their product, their way of thinking, or my way of thinking, The title of the album and subsequent UpClose production integrating into a new society. It’s all part of me because there’s The season also includes Herman describes his father’s journey from Lahore to Longsight, Lahore a never-ending story of British rule, or the Raj or the East India At Halloween, a showcase of the work being the second largest city of Pakistan and Longsight being Company to begin with, but also how we interact in the United of maverick filmmaker Herman Yau Aziz’s birthplace in inner city Manchester, where he still lives. Kingdom.” Aziz adds, “This is relevant to express my experiences (see p15 for more info on our Creative “The Camerata approached me about a partition project, and I of living in England and living in the North West of England and Visions season). had a theme and an idea, a personal story, about my father and the lyrics I’ve written about that and the music I’ve written is about my relationship with him” Ibrahim explains. “His life was about how that makes me feel, so I suppose it suits me down to homemcr.org/filmfear intriguing because he’d been an Indian one moment then Pakistani the bone. It aligns me with the history and the story I want to tell.” the next and then a Brit after that. The poor guy had to move. And it’s a story that will connect with many people, “This is more He’d been through that trauma of partition and he used to tell than just a story of partition” concludes Ibrahim, “this is a story Halloween fun for families: It has me about, and as people do, even if your life has been traumatic, of identity”. to be Hocus Pocus! See page 34 they still talk about the good things in their life, so he used to talk From Lahore to Longsight takes place at HOME on 11 Oct. for details. about the good things in his life. So for me, it generated music and lyrics about those things”. However, it seems not all the details For more info on the Upclose series see p9. were provided, “The things he didn’t tell me about, as I grew up I started to research, so I suggested this project as a personal life story, and that personal life story is probably similar for millions of other people so they can relate to that story. And that in itself tells the story of partition.”

16 BOOK NOW AT HOMEmcr.org or call 0161 200 1500 17 A REVOLUTION

Jon Boden, photo: David Angel BETRAYED? This Autumn, HOME embarks on a major new season of theatre, visual art and film, inspired by the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution.

From a short-lived surge of post-revolutionary optimism came tremendous intentions to change the world, an explosion of new aesthetics and a passion for artistic experimentation. This season delves into the history, memory and powerful legacy of Revolution, from bright new artistic futures, to disillusionment and political disturbance, to the thriving contemporary cultural scene that exists in the country today. Jon Boden: Magical things can happen

Manchester Folk Festival 2017 is a major new festival of playing together for quite a few years, we’re really coming back English folk and acoustic roots music which showcases as a new force”. Post-Bellowhead musical production appears everything from the traditional to the experimental, including to be in full flow, “We’ve a new album which we’ve just written protest songs and songs of struggle to joyful reels and social and are recording at the moment and we’re bringing lots of new HOME presents choruses. HOME is proud be the festival hub this October material from that, plus we’ve a new expanded line-up to bring and will be showcasing performances, selling tickets for all a more theatrical approach to it all.” festival venues as well as providing a great base for audiences to find out more and share festival highlights. Back in 2010 Boden launched a folk song a day to highlight the importance of social singing, the project being a huge success. FRI 3 NOV - SAT 25 NOV, 19:30 With its roots set firmly in the traditions of the past, In context of music festival, social singing still seems strikingly SAT 11, WED 15, SAT 18, WED 22, Manchester Folk Festival has a keen eye on the future, always socially relevant, “It’s where it all comes from”, explains Boden. UNCLE VANYA a seeking out fresh talent and listening out for new and unique “I think we’re a bit cart before the horse, in this day and age in that SAT 25 NOV, 14:00 & 19:30 voices. Whilst it presents some of the biggest names in the everything about music is focused on the entertainment industry, industry, you are also guaranteed to be exposed to many unsung it’s very much about music as something you consume, you By stars of the future with a range of artists and styles that is bold purchase and enjoy, in a kind of semi-passive way, where as where In a version by Andrew Upton the city. When the politically impassioned local and beautifully brought together in one place. music comes from is an expression of social togetherness, and of Directed by Walter Meierjohann Doctor Astrov is called to the house and meets entertaining each other. That has been a big part of human life Yelena, tensions spiral rapidly into a desperate Or rather, places. All lining the Whitworth Street Corridor up till about 50 years ago”. This is where folk bears such relevance, “Life on the whole is dull, dumb, dirty... comedy about unrequited love. and working in partnership with HOME are Gorilla, The Ritz and “Folk very much carries on this tradition, it’s a great tragedy that Sucks you down, this life. Surrounded by kranks. The International Anthony Burgess Foundation, all of which will we’ve more or less lost that as part of our everyday life and I think Everywhere, kranks. You live with them two Chekhov’s characters exist on the brink of be part of this exciting programme of performances. The festival folk music is one particularly strong way of re-engaging with that or three years and before you know it you’ve a new era; a new order is approaching. One takes place in the city over one weekend and will be host to indoor side of human existence which we have lost touch with.” become a krank yourself. This is fate.” they fear. Written 20 years before the Russian gigs, an outdoor stage (at the festival hub at HOME) as well (Astrov. Act I) Revolution, what does this much loved play as workshops, sing-arounds and in-conversations with artists. As well as creating the opportunity for social singing, tell us about the world we live in today? Collectively we have a festival that confidently straddles genres, and collective gathering, festivals very much provide a space for An ageing irritable professor returns to embraces cultures and absorbs new influences and is here for the unknown. A scenario very much outside of our normal social his deceased wife’s country estate with his Taking Russia’s past as inspiration in this historic Manchester audiences to embrace. context, where things may be stumbled upon, new acquaintances beautiful young wife, Yelena. The estate has year Walter Meierjohann’s production, starring met, new ideas explored; “Festivals are great” discusses Boden, been managed for years by the Professor’s HOME’s Associate artist Katie West as Sonya, Ahead of the opening we spoke to folk pioneer Jon Boden. “they create a critical mass of people in one place so you have this daughter, Sonya and his brother-in-law Uncle explores the acutely tragic and deeply comic Probably best known as the lead singer, and one of the principal ability to create really magical moments, not just in the concert Vanya. It is their self-sacrifice and toil which has spirit of Chekhov’s late masterpiece with a bold arrangers, of the multi-award winning Bellowhead, Jon has also room but also in the bar after the gigs where there are sessions maintained his extravagant life style in visual design and live music. performed with Spiers & Boden and formed his own band Jon or dances or whatever, it’s that thing of bringing enough people Boden & The Remnant Kings in 2009. Both were set aside while together who have an interest in the potential of folk music but “A FINE AND SALTY the folk juggernaut that was Bellowhead went on to play to also of social music making in general.” It seems there is plenty to huge audiences across the UK, Europe and beyond till their final look forward to at the Manchester Folk Festival, “When people are gig in May 2016. Following this Boden had dedicated his time to sharing space for a weekend, quite magical things can happen.” VERNACULAR ADAPTATION” Theatre 1 Audio Described performance: the Remnant Kings who are set to showcase their new work to homemcr.org/uncle-vanya Sat 11 Nov, 14:00 audiences of The Manchester Folk Festival. “It’s very exciting” says The Manchester Folk Festival comes to the city from 19 - 22 Oct. Tickets £26.50 - £10 (conc. available)  Boden of the forthcoming Manchester Folk Festival performance. Jon Boden and the Remnant Kings play the festival on Thu 19 Oct ON Previews Fri 3 Nov £10; Sat 4, Mon 6, Tue 7 Nov Caption Subtitled performance: “It’s kind of a new stage for me, although the band have been at HOME. For more info see p16. £12.50 Tue 14 Nov, 19:30 ANDREW UPTON’S UNCLE VANYA  Audio Described Touch Tour: BSL Interpreted performance: Sat 11 Nov, 13:00 Wed 15 Nov, 19:30

18 BOOK NOW AT HOMEmcr.org or call 0161 200 1500 19 THE RETURN OF MEMORY Babel Theatre presents SAT 21 OCT – SUN 7 JAN PREVIEW FRI 20 OCT, 18:00 – 21:00 UNDERGROUND

Curated by: Olya Borissova, Anya Harrison & Sarah Perks

Artists: The Bureau of Melodramatic Research, THU 23 – SAT 25 NOV, 19:00 Declan Clarke & Sarah Perks, Stephen Coates, Phil Collins, Callum Cooper, Gluklya, Moon Based on Dostoyevsky’s Notes from Kyungwon & Jeon Joonho, Irina Korina, Victoria the Underground Lomasko, Vladislav Mamyshev-Monroe, Yevgen Nikiforov, Marta Popivoda, Aza Shadenova, We all, at times, want to run away. Remove Ruslan Vashkevich ourselves from society. Where might we run to?

Unofficial histories, suppressed memories and Babel’s newest production invites the audience strategies of resistance all converge in HOME’s to experience the world of one of Dostoyevsky’s new major group exhibition, which seeks to notorious characters, only really ever known as: redress the legacy of the Russian Revolution on The Underground Man. its centenary by exploring how contemporary artists are responding to the state of the ‘New Theatre 2 As he drags the audience on an obscure journey East’ today. Rather than a nostalgic look at the homemcr.org/underground through his own analysis of the human psyche past, new commissions and existing works re- Tickets £12.50 (conc. available) in a tantalisingly strange landscape blitzed with activate and repurpose key emblems and stories stunning images, deliciously obscure text and of this past – from the avant-garde and revolution a penchant for the ridiculous, he and audience to the collapse of the Communist system and Gluklya, Clothes For Demonstation Against False Election Of Vladimir Putin 2011 – 2015, detail, installation view ‘All the World’s Futures,’ 56th Venice Biennale, 2015, courtesy of the artist and AKINCI members along with him are forced to question ideology – addressing key questions around their places in today’s society. the concept of The Return of Memory. Manchester School of Theatre presents

New commissions include a major multi- Gallery Tour by Jennifer Little: disciplinary project on St Petersburg’s Vavilov Sat 25 Nov, 15:00 – 16:00 Subkultura by Artemy Troitsky is co- Research Institute of Plant Industry – one of the THE SUICIDE homemcr.org/the-return-of-memory published by The New Social & HOME, world’s largest seed banks – and the future of and will be launched at the opening food security and evolution by Callum Cooper. weekend. The exhibition will also include Ruslan Vashkevich’s video installation Victory a special film and performance programme. Over the Sun, reassesses the politics of the FRI 27 OCT - SAT 4 NOV, 19:15 controversial Futuristic opera first organised by FRI 3 NOV, 14:15 & 19:15 Kazimir Malevich and fellow avant-garde artists in 1913, while Declan Clarke & Sarah Perks look By Nikolai Erdman at exactly who is betrayed by revolution, a legacy Directed by David Shirley to their previous exhibition (‘What do you do with your revolution once you’ve got it?’).BSL Led Written in 1928, Nikolai Erdman’s The Suicide Marking the Centenary of the year of the Russian is considered one of the finest plays to have Revolution, this production will feature graduating emerged from the early phase of Communist actors from the Manchester School of Theatre. Russia. When Semyon, a young unemployed man contemplates suicide following his failed Theatre 2 attempt to learn how to play the tuba, he homemcr.org/the-suicide suddenly finds himself besieged and exploited Tickets £10 (conc. available) A REVOLUTION BETRAYED? by various sympathetic visitors pleading with him to make his own suicide a social gesture on their behalf. Acerbic, Imaginative and very humorous, the play offers a telling critique of the political THU 12 – SUN 15 OCT 2017 machinations that characterized the years FILM SEASON immediately following the Russian Revolution. As part of the Revolution Betrayed? season we will be presenting a weekend of films from the early days of the when artists and filmmakers envisaged a bright new future to the 1930s when the ideals of the Bolshevik revolution were thought by some to have Pen:Chant become compromised.

The titles selected, from the likes of Eisenstein, Pudovkin and Medvedkin, reflect the optimism PROTEST & REVOLUTION of the early days of the post-revolutionary period and the enthusiasm for experimenting and discovering the potential of film as a medium to communicate and encapsulate new FRI 24 & SAT 25 NOV, 21:00 ideas. Screenings will also reflect the shift in the 1930s and after toward the state approved Toiling down the art mines, Pen:Chant taps style of Socialist Realism, a change that left the seams of spoken word, comedy, live music, many practitioners bereft and disillusioned contemporary performance and everything in with the direction that art in the Soviet Union between. Unearthing gems from Manchester, was developing. the UK and around the world we present them to you, confident they’ll make your hearts and As well as screening a range of archive titles Curated by Andy Willis, Reader in Film Studies at minds sparkle! HOME will also welcome back Paul Robinson’s the University of Salford and HOME Senior Visiting ever-popular HarmonieBand, who have an Curator: Film. Theatre 2 For this protest & revolution special, we’ll be international reputation for presenting homemcr.org/TBC presenting a special line-up of acts whose art specially composed scores for silent films, homemcr.org/a-revolution-betrayed Tickets £10 (conc. available) is not a mirror, but a hammer - not reflecting to accompany one of the key films of the homemcr.org/protest-revolution but shaping (cheers Brecht!). And even if they post-revolutionary period. don’t change the world tonight, they’ll certainly change yours.

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investing in regional infrastructure and making Russian art “Those who’ll come visible on the world stage. The inaugural Garage Triennial of after us – in a hundred Russian Contemporary Art opened this year with the intention of seeding a new Russian avant-garde. Together with the RELOADED: years, two hundred Bienniale and International Biennial for Young Art, all of which invite international curators and show international and native years – the ones for work, mycelial networks propagate intercultural dialogue and whom we clear the collaboration. path now, will they “There’s a new a generation of young Russian artists who are really plugged in, occupying a variety of sophisticated positions LESSONS FROM remember us kindly?… across media,” says Nadim Samman, British curator of the 2016 Moscow International Biennial for Young Art. “The internet has I bet they won’t.” been incredibly influential. I think we’re now at a point where Chekhov, Uncle Vanya the comprehensive, coherent trajectories associated with art movements have exploded.” Schools like the Rodchenko School of Photography – MOSCOW founded in the mid-00s to supplement the classical soviet art Curated by Olya Borissova, Anya Harrison and Sarah Perks, education – have lifted video art out of its underground origins exhibition The Return Of Memory, opening at HOME on Saturday and into the mainstream, which eddies back into the filmmakers’ 21 October, tackles this messy and multilayered inheritance – collectives of the Moscow film underground. In 2016 the Moscow in Nikolai Nikoforev’s photographic history of de-communisation, International Film Festival, first curated by Eisenstein in 1935, in the Bureau of Melodramatic Research’s installations of was supplemented by an experimental edition, MIEFF. Since 2009, suppressed histories, and in the paintings of Aza Shadenova. Pioner a cultural centre on Kutuzovsky Prospekt has provided an “This is not a show about reflective nostalgia,” says Harrison: institutional home for arthouse and original language films, and “It illuminates specific stories of how new visions were created a programme of lectures, masterclasses, and festivals. and swept aside.” HOME’s film programme (starting from 12 October) questions Opening the show, Ruslan Rashkevich’s restages Malevich’s the conventional narrative of a progressive revolutionary avant- futurist opera Victory Over The Sun, framing revolution from the garde and the regressive later style of socialist realism, tracking On its 100th anniversary, in a moment defined by technological “Even the most mundane piece of theatre [in Russia] is, perspective of history, while Sarah Perks’ and Declan Clarke’s a vast range of filmic experiments unleashed in the turbulent revolution and environmental crisis, the Russian Revolution by American standards, extremely intense and well-wrought,” installation asks which characters – historical and fictive – decade from Eisenstein’s Strike (1925) to Medvedkin’s socialist holds open a utopian cultural space for imagining new futures. says John Freedman, an American theatre scholar and translator, revolution has betrayed. In a new commission examining food realist comedy Happiness (1935). When revolution broke out in 1917, it was in a convulsion of based in Moscow since 1988. “It is rooted in the idea of search. security Callum Cooper transplants seeds from the world’s “These films show the infinite potential of film to communicate optimism, born of rage and desperation. If the Bourgeois There is not the attitude we have in the States of ‘whatever first seed bank in St Petersburg’s Vavilov Research Institute to in different ways,” says Andy Willis, the programme’s curator. February Revolution disassembled the old world, the Bolshevik happens, happens.’ It’s a very, very deep process.” Manchester, where they will be be grown in local allotments, “They come from a time, when you had practising filmmakers October Revolution moved to create another, ex nihilo, out of and with a food computer at HOME. who were also asking themselves how films should be made, the void. A new sacrality is, in Yukhananov’s Talmudic phraseology, “impossibly necessary” as well as “necessarily impossible” if theatre Artemy Troitsky’s book Subkultura, which accompanies and grappling with political and social realities. Contemporary From the interlocking geometries of El-Lissitzky’s collages is to respond to the challenges of our time. Although rooted in the exhibition, peels away the veneer of approved art to reveal cinema doesn’t seem to be doing that.” and biomechanic gestures of Meyerhold’s actors to Eisenstein’s Russian traditions, the approach is global. The project to create a subcultural history of underground movements from 1815 to In September, Moscow opened its 7th Bienniale of vision of reality as a collaboration of elements, Russian artists what Artistic Director of the Theatre of Nations, Yevgeny Mirolov 2017 – youth movements and subcultures, fashions, protest, and Contemporary Art, probing the reciprocal challenges of sought to liberate the imagination through new formal grammars. describes as a “new generation of theatre” takes place in dialogue politics. It is in these subterranean cavities that new movements technology and environment, and invoking tribal cultures that It was Malevich’s Suprematism that went furthest, striving to with visual art, and with experimental directors and intellectuals gestate, long before they are planed down, lacquered and comprehend nature as a cosmology to be lived within, rather ascent into a stratosphere of pure feeling, from which to wrest the world over. packaged, and distributed through official channels. than a resource to be extracted. the elemental components to engineer new worlds. While Yukhananov’s Electrotheatre works with Russia has yet to discover the Western genius The error of Russia’s revolutionary avant-garde lay not it its Perhaps Chekhov saw it all coming. Uncle Vanya premiered contemporary and electronic composers toward new kinds of for cannibalising counterculture into market structures. Its optimism, nor in its preparedness to imagine new futures: these in Stanislavsky’s Moscow Art Theatre at the turn of the 20th opera – extraordinary multimedia events that last for days – underground art history therefore remains hidden. Straddling are the only sensible strategies for confronting irresistible change. Century. “You have the sense with Chekhov that he is standing Kirill Serebrennikov at Moscow’s Gogol Centre, works with writers literature, fine art, cinematography, and theatre, after the model The betrayal was one of intent. 1917 was never intended to launch on this unexploded volcano,” says HOME’s Director of Theatre, to stage searing critiques of Russian and international politics. of Moscow Conceptualist Ilya Kabokov’s ‘fictional albums’, a Russian Revolution, but a global one. When, at the Fourteenth Walter Meierjohann, whose production of Uncle Vanya opens The underground documentary theatre Teatr.doc favours a more Russian underground movements carved out spaces of individual Party Congress in 1924, when Stalin reversed that promise by on Friday 3 November “His characters sense that something is collaborative model, working with verbatim material. Founded expression in discussion groups and communal appartments. diktat, a seed was planted for top-down, nationalist isolationism. changing, by playwrights Yelena Gremina and Yevgeny Ugarov in 2002, These private utopias offer spaces of retreat and psychic and are clinging, desperately, to the past. And this is the position it has since been kicked by Russian authorities from basement resistance within oppressive systems, but for an international If we are to liberate our own imaginations to confront the in which we find ourselves in now.” to basement for unflinching political and social work. art market remains difficult to appreciate. changes wrought by the 21st Century, it is not to create new worlds out of the void, nor construct them with 3d printers on the When an urban professor and his young wife visit their “The relationship between art and the state in Russia is Russia lacks the capillary networks of commercial galleries terra incognita of nearby planets. We need, instead to plant our rural estate, havoc is wrought not just on the lives of their tenants, traditionally aggressive,” says Katya Inozemtseva, senior curator and art fairs that irrigate Western art ecologies. The Moscow feet firmly in the earth, and to patiently learn from and collaborate but on the landscape itself: “The forests are disappearing, the of Moscow’s Garage Centre for Contemporary Art. “But if you look gallery scene, buoyant in the early 2000s deflated in the 2010s with neighbouring cultures and ecologies. And we need to pursue rivers are running dry… the climate is spoiled, and the earth at art history, it’s the dissidents we remember. The official artists as collectors moved West and galleries closed. For regional it with the fervour and creativity of 1917, and with the flexibility, becomes poorer and uglier every day.” Chekhov, ventriloquizing have been forgotten.” Over the last hundred years, she believes, artists, the problems of visibility are greater still. Although the commitment and persistence, of Russian artists since. rural doctor Astrov, seems to prophesy industrial greed run riot. Russian artists have developed survival tactics, finding productive Russian Ministry of Culture’s National Centre for Contemporary forms of coexistence and protection within regimes and their Art organises exhibitions in the regions, and exhibits regional Sam Williams is a theatremaker and art writer working “Chekhov is our Talmud,” says Boris Yukhananov, artistic changes: from imperialism to revolution to Stalinism, and from work in its Moscow office, its eight centres are clustered in the in Moscow, London, and Berlin and a visiting lecturer in theatre director of Moscow’s Stanislavsky Electrotheatre, which opened the wild, turbo-capitalism of the Yeltsin era to a new nationalism Western third of the country. criticism and dramaturgy at the Royal Central School of Speech on Tverskaya in 2013. In Russia, theatre is both mystical practice under Putin. and Drama. – like reading runes or entrails – and a fierce discipline. Or, as Re-missioned by a growing national confidence, private the actor Mikhail Shchepkin summarized in the 19th Century: foundations run by wealthy philanthropists are shifting focus The season A Revolution Betrayed? runs at HOME in “Theatre is a cathedral. Perform with religious fervour or get out.” from importing Western Contermporary art to Russia, to Oct & Nov 2017. See pages 19, 20 & 21 for more information.

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HOME and Contact present MANCHESTER FORCED ANIMATION ENTERTAINMENT: REAL MAGIC FESTIVAL WED 29 NOV - FRI 1 DEC, 19:30 TUE 14, WED 15 & THU 16 NOV 2017 Conceived and devised by the company

Join us this November for an international Real Magic creates a world of

PHOTO: Rosario Rivas Leal celebration of all things animated. absurd disconnection, struggle Manchester Animation Festival returns for and comical repetition. its third year with special guests, previews, an international competition, screenings, To the sound of looped applause and workshops, retrospectives, masterclasses canned laughter, a group of performers and more. take part in an impossible illusion – part mind-reading feat, part cabaret act, The full programme will be announced part chaotic game show – in which they in September. endlessly revisit moments of defeat, hope and anticipation. homemcr.org/maf-2017 Caught in a world of second-chances Co-produced by: PACT Zollverein Essen, November NOVEMBER and second-guesses, variations and HAU Hebbel Am Ufer Berlin, Künsterlhaus Fri 3 Nov – Sun 7 Jan changes, distortions and transformations, Moustonturm Frankfurt, Tanzquartier “HAUNTING, ENTICING, ART/HOME PROJECTS Real Magic takes you on a hallucinatory Wien Vienna, Attenborough Centre for the MANCHESTER Visit our HOME Projects exhibition journey, creating a compelling performance Creative Arts, University of Sussex and the SURPRISING, AS EVER… ANIMATION FESTIVAL inspired by the themes of the Festival. about optimism, individual agency and Spalding Gray Consortium – On the Boards the desire for change. Seattle, PS122 NYC, Walker Art Center A CURIOUS JOY AND Minneapolis and Warhol Museum Pittsburgh. A MAGICAL GIFT.”

Theatre 1 TOTAL THEATRE (UK) FILM SEASON ART/FILM homemcr.org/real-magic Tickets £16.50 - £10 (conc. available) storytelling, interactive games or mobile filmmaking. Discover who mixes digital with traditional media like theatre making, journalism, playwriting, TV, radio and film, in their storytelling. Enjoy a creative mix of engaging panel ART/FILM FILM SEASON SPIKE IS 60 Queer Media presents discussions, performances, workshops and THROUGHOUT NOVEMBER QUEER MEDIA FESTIVAL films aiming to refresh the way that LGBT+ DISABILITY FILM SEASON 2017 narratives are told and explore the queer MON 4 & WED 6 DEC Spike Lee, one of the most prominent rainbow of diverse stories. SAT 18 NOV, FROM 11:00 and prolific directors of the 21st century, The second Disability Film Season is celebrated his 60th birthday in early 2017, queermedia.org.uk part of a programme of events planned After last year’s sell-out event, Queer and to celebrate, We Are Parable have @QueerMediaUK for December to mark UK Disability Media Festival returns for the festival’s produced a series of screenings of some Facebook.com/qmfuk History Month 2017. This project is fourth year celebrating the amazing range his iconic films. From the controversial delivered in partnership with Manchester of LGBT+ stories in all forms of media. (Jungle Fever) to the dramatic (He Got City Council, and is based around the Game), this season will show the multi- theme of disability and visual arts; there Hear from inspiring live speakers who Sarah Turner, Public House faceted nature of Lee’s body of work. will be two disability-related screenings are creating LGBT+ stories using the new as well as a panel discussion to discuss digital platforms of virtual reality, online homemcr.org/spike-is-60 this year’s themes. The film selection will be made by Manchester City Council’s Disabled Staff Group. DECember Public House is a triumphant story of social EAT AND DRINK ARTIST FILM resilience and the local community working together to save the pub from closure. WEEKENDER Also on the bill, Eglantine by Glasgow- AT HOME FRI 1 - SUN 3 DEC based artist-filmmaker Margaret Salmon, a loving homage to classic children’s films From a lunch on the go and takeaways Enjoy a three course pre-theatre HOME’s annual celebration of the such as Ray Ashley’s Little Fugitive, Jean to lazy brunches and pre-theatre dining, dinner, lunch, brunch or Sunday lunch alt-wonderful world of artist film is Renoir’s The River and Albert Lamorisse’s HOME does it all. in the stylish surroundings of our First crammed with special guests, premieres The Red Balloon. Eglantine also draws from Floor Restaurant. Open Mon-Sat: and discussions. The HOME Artist Film nature studies of the past, such as Mary Eat in or take away from the Ground 11.00 – 23.00 (service until 22:00) and Weekender is now into its third year and Field’s Secrets of Nature series. Video Floor Bar, or try our burgers, posh kebabs, Sun: 11.00- 22.30 (service until 21:00). is something of a magnet for artists and artist Stanya Kahn will present her most pizzas and salads on the outdoor terrace. We’ve also got a great kids menu curators incorporating film, video and ambitious film to date Stand in the Stream, Open Mon-Thu: 11:00 – 23:00, Fri-Sat: moving image into their practice. “an ambient, narrative, digital film that 11:00 – 00:00 and Sun: 11:00 – 22:30. Or grab a drink and order food before follows perspectives of a subjective body a film in our Second Floor Bar, or step This year, we welcome artist, filmmaker in time, family, community, work, action out onto our secret roof terrace. and writer Sarah Turner, who presents and in the daily mundane”. her latest feature Public House, which We will also present our latest HOME Artist Book at table at tells the story of the Ivy House Pub in Peckham, London which was closed and Film productions alongside even more homemcr.org/food-drink sold to property developers in April 2012. highlights from the world of artist film. or call 0161 212 3500

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A mini-season of Christmas treats from the wonderfully dark director. homemcr.org/tim-burton-christmas HO, HO,

HOME! EDWARD THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE BATMAN RETURNS (15) SCISSORHANDS (12A) CHRISTMAS (PG) MON 18 DEC, 20:10 FRI 8 DEC, 18:10 SAT 9 DEC, 15:40 Dir Tim Burton / US 1992 / 126 mins Dir Tim Burton / US 1990 / 105 mins WED 13 DEC, 20:40 Michael Keaton, Danny DeVito, What’s on our Christmas list this year? Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder, Dianne Wiest Dir Henry Selick / US 1993 / 81 mins Michelle Pfeiffer Danny Elfman, Chris Sarandon, A reinterpretation on the Frankenstein Catherine O’Hara When a corrupt businessman and the Heartwarming Christmas classics, story, Edward’s inventor unfortunately dies grotesque Penguin plot to take control of before he finishes his creation leaving him Based on a Tim Burton story and Gotham City, only Batman can stop them, Michael Caine meets The Muppets, a trio to grow up alone in an eerie castle with characters, Henry Selick’s brilliant while the Catwoman has her own agenda. blades for hands. A humble and gentle soul, animated film sees Jack Skellington, Edward eventually makes contact with the the king of Halloween Town, discovering of Tim Burton treats, the true story of real world and what ensues is a delightfully Christmas Town. When he attempts See more, save money! pastel-coloured vision of an outsider trying to bring Christmas to his hometown See all 3 films in our Tim Burton Red Riding Hood and the Wolf, a cabaret to fit in. confusion and chaos ensues. season and save £1.50 per ticket Bring the family - tickets £4 with All tickets must be purchased at the cat that got the cream and a great big Big Family Card same time. Subject to availability and cannot be used retrospectively. This offer can’t be used in conjunction sticky pot of Hot Brown Honey… with any other offers

FILM/CLASSIC CHRISTMAS

Hot Brown Honey, Photo: Dylan Evans IT’S A WONDERFUL MEET ME IN THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS LIFE (U) ST. LOUIS (U) CAROL (U) SAT 9 DEC, TIMES VARY MON 11 DEC, 20:30 SUN 17 DEC, 11:00 Dir Frank Capra / US 1948 / 131 mins SAT 23 DEC, 17:50 THU 21 DEC, 18:20 James Stewart, Donna Reed, Dir Vincente Minnelli / US 1944 / 113 mins Dir Brian Henson / US 1992 / 86 mins Lionel Barrymore. Leon Ames, Mary Astor, Tom Drake, Frank Oz, Michael Caine, Dave Goelz, Margaret O’Brien, Judy Garland Steve Whitmire This firm festive favourite, from Oscar-

Edward Scissorhands Edward winning director Frank Capra is a genuinely A sparkling musical with stellar The tale of an old and bitter miser’s tender and enduring piece of yuletide performances from the ensemble cast redemption on Christmas Eve told in cinema. It wouldn’t be Christmas at HOME this is a delightful and nostalgic film with inimitable Muppet style. Arguably the without it! lavish design and photography matched best adaptation of this classic tale there CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS by a string of wonderful numbers including has ever been! AT HOME: The Trolley Song, The Boy Next Door, We’re now taking bookings for and Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas. Bring the family - tickets £4 with Christmas parties. From your office Go on – indulge yourself! Big Family Card Christmas lunch with all the trimmings, to a party with friends and family, our café bar team are on hand to make your celebration special.

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Meow Meow takes you on a wild journey With lighting, music and costume to ignite of obsessive love songs, tired old tricks, the change we want to be, this stellar and gorgeous suicide ditties, navigating posse of phenomenal women smash stereotypes, spin tradition on its head the uncharted territory between Weimar  era wit, 1930’s Shanghai show tunes, 60’s “MEOW MEOW IS THAT and dare to celebrate our similarities and French pop and post-punk hilarity. RARE COMBINATION - differences. Recipients of the 2016 Total Expect sequins and satire, Brel, Brecht, “WITNESS THE BIRTH OF Theatre Award for Innovation, Hot Brown Punk - Politics. Mayhem. Magnificence. A NEW STAR – SHE IS DEVILISH FUNNY BONES Honey is unapologetically fierce - defiantly AND HEAVENLY VOCAL shattering clichés in an explosion of colour, Theatre 1 SENSATIONAL.” culture and controversy. Fighting the power never tasted so sweet. homemcr.org/meow-meow The Times CHORDS. NOBODY DOES Tickets £19.50 (conc. available) IT BETTER THAN MEOW.” Theatre 1 Recommended age 14+ Evening Standard homemcr.org/hot-brown-honey Tickets £21 - £10 (conc. available)

Recommended age 16+

THEATRE THE TIGER

LILLIES: “IT’S PHENOMENAL  A COLD NIGHT IN SOHO SEXY FOOT THU 7 DEC, 20:00 “..BRILLIANT MASHUP OF MUSIC, STOMPING FUN For this very special show, the Grammy DANCE AND BURLESQUE, ALL nominated Godfathers of alternative AND RADICAL cabaret The Tiger Lillies return to THE WHILE CHALLENGING YOUR Manchester to perform their new album, CONSCIOUSNESS PERCEPTIONS OF GENDER, A Cold Night in Soho. RAISING ALL

The world of The Tiger Lillies is dark, COLOUR AND PRIVILEGE.”

peculiar and varied, with moments of deep AT THE SAME TIME” Rip It Up sadness, cruel black humour and immense THE SCOTSMAN beauty. Formed in 1989, they remain one of the most unique, provocative and genre- defying bands one could come across. The music they produce is a mixture of pre-war Berlin cabaret, anarchic opera and gypsy music, echoing the voices of Bertolt Brecht FAMILY FUN and Jacques Brel fused with the savage edge of punk. Little Angel Theatre presents For more information on this great family  show see page 35. Theatre 1 RED RIDING homemcr.org/tiger-lillies “MARTYN JACQUES SEE MORE, SAVE MONEY! Theatre 2 Tickets £19.50 (conc. available) IS A CHARISMATIC Create the ultimate cabaret HOOD AND homemcr.org/red-riding-hood experience: Book tickets for both The Tickets £8.50 adults, £6.50 children FOCUS…HIS VOICE IS Tiger Lillies: A Cold Night in Soho and THE WOLF With BIG Family Card: £7.50 adults, Meow Meow: Feline Intimate for £30 £5.50 children. Recommended age 5+ A MOLTEN CASCADE. THU 7 DEC - SAT 30 DEC, 10:30 & 13:30 (saving £4.50 per ticket). THE EXECUTION Here is where our story starts. A gentle wolf All tickets must be purchased at the “WOW, WOW AND IS IMPECCABLE with a broken heart… same time. Subject to availability DOUBLE WOW... and cannot be used retrospectively. THROUGHOUT. You all loved Wow! Said the Owl so much This offer can’t be used in conjunction last Christmas that we’ve invited Little MAGICAL, AND JOYFUL.” PHENOMENAL.” with any others. Angel Theatre to come back to celebrate WHAT’S ON STAGE ON THE GUARDIAN with us this year! WOW! SAID THE OWL

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ON JACK Join us for two weeks of inspiring, creative experiences fresh from the North West ROSENTHAL when HOME will be entirely dedicated to showcasing some of the most exciting STREET film, theatre and visual arts from the THROUGHOUT JANUARY region. PUSH festival also offers great opportunities for artists and creatives to As HOME stands next to Jack Rosenthal meet industry professionals, share ideas, Street, who better to celebrate in our inspiration and develop their skills across on-going January seasons devoted to a broad range of topics with an array of British screenwriters than the man who workshops and events to get involved in. JANUARY JANUARY gave the street its name, Manchester’s Jack Rosenthal. homemcr.org/push-2018 Rosenthal’s career is without doubt one of the most distinctive in British television and across January 2018 HOME will offer a selection from this rich and diverse body of work. ART/PREMIERE Beginning in the 1960s with a stint on If that weren’t enough Rosenthal also homemcr.org/jack-rosenthal , he continued his scripted a number of ensemble dramas association with Granada in the 1970s that showcased the best of Britain’s acting NOOR AFSHAN developing fondly remembered sit-coms talents including The Knowledge (1979) such as The Lovers (1970-71) and distinctive and The Chain (1984), and for good measure MIRZA & single dramas such as Another Sunday and contributed script-writing duties on the Sweet F.A. (1972) and Ready When You Are, Barbra Streisand vehicle Yentl (1983). BRAD BUTLER: Mr. McGill (1976). At the BBC he delivered scripts for classic Plays for Today such as Curated by Andy Willis, Reader in Film THE SCAR The Evacuees (1975) Bar Mitzvah Boy (1976) Studies at the University of Salford and SAT 10 FEB - SUN 31 MAR and Spend, Spend, Spend (1976). HOME Senior Visiting Curator: Film. PREVIEW FRI 9 FEB, 18:00 - 21:00 Curated by Sarah Perks

An ex-beauty queen, a Kurdish MP, a former Gladio agent and a communist turned The Ectoplasm of Neoliberalism, 2015 confessor. An infamous car crash in Turkey in 1996 is reimagined through multiple DANCE perspectives and genres by international artists Noor Afshan Mirza and Brad Butler.

Hofesh Shechter Company presents PHOTO: Rahi Rezvani FEBRUARY This exhibition and its central new commission – The Scar– explore an GRAND FINALE extraordinary conspiracy with global WED 31 JAN - SAT 3 FEB, 19:30 implications. The crash occurred on 3 Choreography and music November 1996 in the town of Susurluk, by Hofesh Shechter in Turkey’s Balıkesir Province. Out of the four passengers only one survived, and Internationally acclaimed artist Hofesh has amnesia. In the car the police found Shechter has single-handedly created weapons, fake passports signed by the a new genre: part dance, part gig, part interior minister (who was also the head theatre and wholly original, his work has of police), money and drugs. its own instantly identifiable and entirely unique voice. This exhibition approaches the scandal by imagining and depicting that which Grand Finale shows us a world in freefall, remained as private inadmissible conjecture where humanity spirals through surreal in the subsequent investigations: What scenes and emotions towards its own end were these four people talking about point. Mythic and elemental, Shechter’s together just before they crashed? vision is at once comic, bleak and beautiful, evoking a world at odds with itself, full of Across three very different genres that anarchic energy and violent comedy. all end in a car crash, The Scar tells its story from the position of Yenge, the female Intricate, chiselled choreographic patterns passenger whose death was written out and dynamic live music come together in of history. Through her journey we begin to a heady mix of power and emotion, to tell address the corrupt systems that still hold a simple tale about the human spirit. power, explore ways to ‘get out’ of the car and begin to imagine an alternative society Theatre 1 no longer dominated by patriarchy. Differentiating between work made ‘in’ A HOME new commission in partnership Tickets £19 - £10 (conc. available) struggle and work made about struggle with FLAMIN (London, UK), Spectre homemcr.org/grand-finale “THE MIGHTY CONTEMPORARY Noor Afshan Mirza and Brad Butler’s work they take up an expanded notion of how Productions (Paris, France), Delfina CHOREOGRAPHER –A COMBINATION engages with contradictions of inequality, to think politics with and through the body. Foundation (London, UK) and Edith- power, privilege and (non) participation and Mirza and Butler work in an international Russ-Haus (Oldenburg, Germany). OF DANCEMAKER AND ROCK-STAR” until recently took the form of a fictional context and are interested in expanded institution: The Museum of Non-Participation notions of art that turn to such areas as homemcr.org/the-scar THE TIMES (2008-2016). Their collaboration spans state violence and forced disappearance, moving image, installation, workshops, the ectoplasm of neoliberalism and sound, text and performed actions. women’s bodies as sites of resistance.

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Our Artistic Director: Film, Jason Wood, ONE FILM tells us more about his passion for One Film WONDERS Wonders, the subject of a new film season THROUGHOUT MARCH screening at HOME in March 2018. From Phase IV, The Widow, One-Eyed Jacks, Nil By Mouth and Barbara Loden’s astonishing Wanda there is a whole series of remarkable films by filmmakers who, for numerous reasons, stepped behind the camera just the once. But what films they

MARCH made. Offering a short overview of the sole directorial efforts that cast a sizeable shadow on the film landscape, and which in some cases seemingly creatively paralysed their originators, One Film Wonders chronicles these wonderful bursts of often very personal filmmaking and labours of love.

Jason Wood talks about his passion ONE FILM WONDERS for One Film Wonders on page 32 Night of the Hunter

THEATRE/NOW BOOKING

One of my many abiding cinematic obsessions is that relatively singular Hollywood films of its era. In essence a tale of good HOME presents select group of films of immense interest by filmmakers with versus evil, Laughton’s masterstroke is to dilute the film’s message just a sole directorial credit. When considering the absence to a single memorable image; the Love and Hate tattoos that CIRCLE MIRROR of a follow-up feature numerous factors come into play, some Powell so memorably sports on his knuckles. Genuinely unsettling, of which may be out of the control of the figure in question: it’s abject commercial failure put paid to Laughton’s ambition to TRANSFORMATION muted or even hostile critical and public reception, box office adapt Norman Mailer’s The Naked and the Dead. FRI 2 – SAT 17 MAR, 19:30 failure, lack of funding opportunities, issues relating to Recently cited as an inspiration by Isabelle Huppert, SAT 10, WED 14 & SAT 17 MAR, diversity in the industry and premature death or illness. 14:00 & 19:30 The list could go on. There are those that found the experience Barbara Loden’s Wanda has undergone a process of rediscovery. Written by and starring Loden, who gives an utterly convincing Written by Annie Baker to be far from their liking (Marlon Brando with One-Eyed Jacks Directed by Bijan Sheibani for example) and others still, and this is perhaps the group performance as the meandering, emotionally confused and half-destitute Wanda of the title, the film follows her as she I admire most, that simply felt that they said all that they In a small town in Vermont, New England, needed to say in one flourish of creative energy. This is true drifts through drab semi-industrial American townships and from one dead end relationship to the next. Shot cheaply on location five unlikely strangers come together in of Andi Engel, director of Melancholia. A prominent UK film their community centre for a creative drama industry figure, Engel is linked to UK critic Gavin Lambert, on 16mm and then subsequently blown up to 35mm, Wanda is unassuming, understated and at times unapologetically rough class for adults. The free-spirited Marty, who never followed up Another Sky. We are still waiting to see recently divorced Schulz, former actress if Gary Oldman will add to Nil By Mouth, a debut that seemed and ready. Drawing on influences as diverse as Italian neo- realism, Shirley Clarke and the cinema vérité of Cassavetes, Teresa, the self-conscious high school to announce a highly promising filmmaker in the spirit of student, Lauren and Marty’s quiet husband, Alan Clarke. the film portrays America as sad and shabby. Described as semi- autobiographical, Loden, the wife of Elia Kazan, succumbed to James. Over six weeks of drama exercises Perhaps most prominent amongst the one film wonders, cancer in 1980 and never completed another movie. and games ranging from the hilarious to and following on from Oldman, are actors who decided to turn their the heartbreaking, their lives become hand to directing after years of being on-set and accumulating A true original of low-budget artistry, Herk Harvey’s Carnival entangled and transformed in the most “ANNIE BAKER’S PLAY IS AN experience. Peter Lorre’s Der Verlorene (The Lost One, 1951) offers of Souls plays like a lost episode of The Twilight Zone. Candace humorous and moving ways. a very personal comment on the circumstances in Germany Hilligoss stars as Mary, who after an accident sets off for another ABSOLUTE FEAST. CIRCLE that forced Lorre into exile in 1933. Told in flashback, the film town and a job as a church organist where she finds herself Annie Baker is the winner of the 2014 MIRROR TRANSFORMATION concerns a research doctor, played by Lorre, who is forced into strangely drawn to an old abandoned amusement park. With its Pulitzer Prize for drama and is considered political complicity with the Nazis by their shrewd, cold-blooded black and white photography and dense otherworldly atmosphere one of the most talented playwrights IS THE KIND OF UNHERALDED exploitation of his emotional and psychological weaknesses. that merges Bergman with Cocteau, the film was acknowledged to have emerged in recent years. A product of the depressed German film industry of the post-war by George Romero as a source of inspiration for Night of the Living Her quiet masterpiece, Circle Mirror GEM THAT SENDS PEOPLE INTO years, Der Verlorene is a morally ambiguous work that stylistically Dead. Claiming to have one eye on the arthouse circuit and one Transformation won the 2010 Obie Award THE STREETS BABBLING AND reaches back to the German expressionism of the late 1920s eye on the drive-in, director Harvey counts numerous shorts and for Best New Play and was voted one of and early 30s. A passion project for Lorre, who returned to his documentaries amongst his C.V. but just this one unique feature. the top ten plays of 2009 by the New York BRIGHT-EYED WITH THE DESIRE Times, Time Out and the New Yorker. homeland 18 years after leaving it and becoming an international This season is by no means exhaustive but instead hopes TO SPREAD THE WORD.” star, the film was released at a time when the German nation to provide an aerial overview of titles that we hope will also Theatre 1 NEW YORK TIMES was loathe to be reminded of its crimes. A commercial disaster, include Dalton Trumbo’s Johnny Got His Gun, Saul Bass’s Phase homemcr.org/circle-mirror-transformation Lorre returned to a lucrative acting career in America. IV, James William Guerico’s Electra Glide In Blue and William Tickets £26.50 - £10 (conc. available) Eggleston’s Stranded In Canton. We hope that you will search British actor Charles Laughton’s Night of the Hunter is Previews Fri 2 Mar £10; Sat 3, Mon 5, for your own links and connections and also draw your own the title that perhaps most universally comes to mind when Tue 6 Mar £12.50 considering great sole features. Adapted from the novel by Davis conclusions. A sense of melancholy will no doubt be induced. Grubb and set during the Great Depression, it features a rarely A longing for something forever lost. A ‘what if’ that can never better Robert Mitchum as Harry Powell, a travelling preacher be answered. and serial murderer who preys on the recently widowed. Scripted by Pulitzer Prize winner James Agee, Night of the Hunter is a Jason Wood is Artistic Director, Film at HOME and the horror yarn with overtures towards a Brothers Grimm fable. co-editor of Enthusiasms, a new magazine about film culture. Photographed by Stanley Cortez in crisp black and white, the film’s mix of symbolism, expressionism, early American cinema The One-Film Wonders season hits our screens in March (it pays homage to D.W. Griffith and casts Lillian Gish) and (see p33) American pastoral immediately rendered it one of the most homemcr.org/one-film-wonders

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These special screenings take place on the third Thursday of each month and are designed ONLY for parents, grandparents and carers of babies aged 12 months and under. BRING THE FAMILY Screenings are priced at our regular THE NIGHTMARE THE MUPPET matinee ticket prices, with no charge for your baby, and all films will be We’ve got some great family films BEFORE CHRISTMAS (PG) CHRISTMAS CAROL (U) certificates U / PG / 12A. SAT 9 DEC, 15:40 & WED 13 DEC, 20:40 SUN 17 DEC, 11:00 & THU 21 DEC, 18:20 coming up this season, plus, Little Dir Henry Selick / US 1993 / 81 mins Dir Brian Henson/US 1992/86 mins During screenings, the sound will Danny Elfman, Chris Sarandon, Frank Oz, Michael Caine, Dave Goelz, be at a lower volume and the lights Catherine O’Hara Steve Whitmire will be kept on at a dimmed level. Angel Theatre return for Christmas Our café team can provide high Based on a Tim Burton story and characters, The tale of an old and bitter miser’s chairs and hot water for bottles, Henry Selick’s brilliant animated film sees redemption on Christmas Eve. Arguably while we have baby changing with their lovely new show Red Riding Jack Skellington, the king of Halloween the best adaptation of this classic tale facilities, plus a pram and pushchair Town, discovering Christmas Town. When there has ever been! accessible building (with lifts to he attempts to bring Christmas to his all floors and lots of space). You’ll hometown confusion and chaos ensues. find upcoming screenings listed at Hood and the Wolf. homemcr.org/cinema, or sign up to our weekly email for reminders!

Don’t forget to sign up for a free HOME Big Family Card to get GREAT THEATRE RELAXED FILM SCREENINGS the family film tickets for just £4 and the best prices on theatre shows and be the first to find out about family films, shows and There are relaxed film screenings at HOME on the last Saturday of Family events supported by: activities at HOME by signing up to receive our e-newsletter at the month at 11:00. Please visit homemcr.org/families. homemcr.org/relaxed-events for the latest information.

Relaxed theatre shows in FUN FAMILY FILMS this season: Red Riding Hood and the Wolf TUE 12 DEC, 10:30

CHITTY CHITTY Chicken Run (U) HALLOWEEN AT HOME BANG BANG (U) SUN 27 AUG, 11:00 HOCUS POCUS (PG) Little Angel Theatre presents Theatre 2 homemcr.org/red-riding-hood Dirs Peter Lord, Nick Park / SUN 25 JUN, 11:00 SUN 29 OCT, 11:00 Tickets £8.50 adults, £6.50 children GB 2000 / 84 mins RED RIDING Dir Ken Hughes / GB 1968 / 146 mins Dir Kenny Ortega / US 1993 / 96 mins With BIG Family Card: £7.50 adults, Mel Gibson, Miranda Richardson, Dick Van Dyke, Sally Ann Howes, Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, HOOD AND £5.50 children Lionel Jeffries Jane Horrocks, Julia Sawalha Kathy Najimy THE WOLF Recommended age 5+ When a down-on-his-luck inventor restores When a famous Flying Rooster crash lands After three centuries, three witches are into a chicken farm, the chickens see him as THU 7 DEC - SAT 30 DEC, 10:30 & 13:30 a broken-down car for him and his children, resurrected on Halloween night, and it’s BSL Interpreted performance: an opportunity to escape their evil owners. they end up on a magical fantasy adventure up to two teenagers, a young girl, and an Here is where our story starts. A gentle Tue 12 Dec, 10:30 to save their grandfather in a far-off land. immortal cat to put an end to their reign wolf with a broken heart… Based on an Ian Fleming novel with the of terror once and for all. Relaxed performance: screenplay by Roald Dahl this is a great You all loved Wow! Said the Owl so much Tue 12 Dec, 10:30 chance to see this family favourite on the last Christmas that we’ve invited Little big screen. Angel Theatre to come back to celebrate “WOW, WOW AND with us this year! DOUBLE WOW... MAGICAL, AND JOYFUL.” You may think you know the story of What’s on Stage on Wow! Said the Owl HOOK (U) Red Riding Hood, sugar and spice and all things nice. But there are two sides to every SUN 24 SEP, 11:00 story, so let’s hear it from the Wolf himself! Dir Steven Spielberg / US 1991 / 142 mins KUBO AND THE TWO Here’s the story never heard of a kind and RED RIDING HOOD AND Dustin Hoffman, Robin Williams, STRINGS (PG) hungry wolf who strayed from the path and Julia Roberts lost his friends. THE WOLF: ACCESS THE WIZARD OF OZ (U) SUN 26 NOV, 11:00 WORKSHOP Dir Travis Knight / US 2016 / 102 mins SUN 30 JUL, 11:00 Captain Hook kidnaps his children so an This wolf isn’t big or even bad, in fact TUE 12 DEC, 11:45 - 13:15 adult Peter Pan (Robin Williams) must return Charlize Theron, Art Parkinson, Dir Victor Fleming / GB 1939 / 102 mins he’s rather shy. He won’t gobble up your to Neverland and reclaim his youthful spirit Matthew McConaughey Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger grandma or tell you lies. He’s polite and A fantastic hands-on opportunity for in order to challenge his old enemy. very gentle, he’s an all-round nice guy. children to get a close-up experience of A young boy named Kubo embarks on a Red Riding Hood and the Wolf. This multi- When Dorothy Gale gets caught in a magical quest to locate a suit of armour So before you make up your mind about sensory workshop exploring costume, tornado she ends up in the magical land of worn by his late father, so he can defeat the wolf you think you know so well, enjoy set and lighting is designed for children Oz where she embarks on a journey to find a vengeful spirit from the past. her way home. a whole new spin on this fairy tale and with autism spectrum conditions, sensory remember to never judge anyone by how disorders and learning difficulties however Part of our Road Movies season (p8) they look! this is an inclusive session open to all.

£1 per child, parents go free

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SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES HOME YOUNG CREATIVES HOME GROWN TALENT COMMUNITIES Here at HOME we want to For visitors arriving by car or To find out more or to In the theatre, we make make sure everyone has a taxi, there is free, on-street book wheelchair spaces, some subtle changes to our Our annual schools and colleges If you’re 15-25 and you’re into Spotting, developing and Local community groups can benefit great visit. Accessible theatre parking for Blue Badge holders call our Box Office team performances, toning down programme uses film, visual arts and art, film and theatre, why not showcasing the work of local from our Inspire Ticket Scheme, performances and film on Whitworth Street West. on 0161 200 1500 or visit loud noises and lighting effects theatre to enrich students’ learning. join HOME Young Creatives? creatives is at the heart of HOME. which is generously funded by The Events cover Modern Foreign Get involved in an amazing series We run skills development workshops Oglesby Charitable Trust. Inspire screenings are always included The nearest car park is Q-Park homemcr.org/access and leaving the house lights Languages, Film and Media, Visual of free workshops, projects and and courses throughout the year, supplies low cost theatre tickets in our programme, including at First Street, next door on low. The doors to the theatre Arts, Drama and English, and are commissioning opportunities, alongside networking sessions and to local community groups who want Audio Described, British to HOME, with 28 disabled RELAXED EVENTS remain open throughout, we mostly aimed at the 14-19 age group all led by creative professionals. open submission opportunities to to experience what HOME has to Sign Language interpreted parking spaces. HOME visitors provide a chill-out space in a studying GCSE, AS, A2 and equivalent. get your work shown. Check the offer. We can also arrange free tours performances and tours, and receive a 20% discount on Relaxed events at HOME are separate part of the building Sign up for more information at Talent Development section of our of the venue tailored to each group. captioned performances and parking (validate your ticket for anyone who would welcome if needed and there is a We offer group booking deals for homemcr.org/HYC website for information on up and films. We also offer discounted or show a receipt from our watching a film or seeing a relaxed attitude to noise and schools for most theatre performances coming opportunities. Contact tickets for disabled visitors cafe and bar in the venue). theatre performance in a more movement within the theatre. and film screenings, and can also Read our Project X feature on p6 to [email protected] and their essential companions. The best place for drop-offs relaxed environment. They have provide school groups with tours of find out more about HOME’s work Find out more at for more information the venue throughout the year with young creatives and artists. homemcr.org/creatives is on Whitworth Street West: been designed to be friendlier We also hold relaxed screenings on request. PUSH 2018 There are wheelchair spaces pull up in front of the silver to people with autism spectrum every month. For these we keep INTERESTED IN VOLUNTEERING WANT YOUR SHORT FILM in our theatres and cinema bollards beneath Arch 70, conditions and their families the cinema lights on low and For full programme details, AND TRAINING? SCREENED AT HOME? Join us for two weeks of inspiring, screens, with full lift access next to Belvoir Lettings. It is but they may also be suitable turn the volume down a little. please visit homemcr.org/schools creative experiences fresh from to all floors. All of our cinemas approximately 100m from for people with sensory There are no trailers or adverts Build your skills and get involved in Filmed Up is our regular North the North West when HOME will be have induction loops, and here to our front door on a disorders or learning difficulties. and you are free to move our work at HOME. With opportunities West filmmakers night. Screenings entirely dedicated to showcasing assistance dogs are very flat paved road. We aim to make the events as around the cinema, and to ranging from apprenticeships and take place every quarter, with films some of the most exciting film, welcome. inclusive as possible, so they bring your own food and drinks. internships to volunteering across selected from an open submission theatre and visual arts from the are open to all, even if you theatre, film and visual art, there’s of short films under 20 minutes in region. PUSH festival also offers plenty to get stuck into. duration, of any genre, old or new great opportunities for artists don’t need the adjustments we If you have any questions made by filmmakers currently based and creatives to meet industry make for relaxed performances regarding these events, please For more information email us at in the North West. Submissions are professionals, share ideas, inspiration and screenings. email [email protected] [email protected] accepted all year round. and develop their skills across a broad range of topics with an array For deadlines, screening dates of workshops and events to get and submission forms please see involved in. homemcr.org/filmed-up homemcr.org/push-2018

QUICK GUIDE TO ACCESSIBLE AND RELAXED EVENTS PLANNED SO FAR THIS SEASON:

British Sign Language Interpreted Theatre / People Places And Things Wed 4 Oct, 19:30 P10 Theatre / Uncle Vanya Wed 15 Nov, 19:30 P19 Theatre/ Red Riding Hood and The Wolf Tue 12 Dec, 10:30 P35

British Sign Language Led Events Gallery tour / The Return of Memory (BSL Led) Sat 25 Nov, 15:00 P20

Caption Subtitled Theatre / People Places And Things Tue 3 Oct, 19:30 P10 Theatre / Uncle Vanya Tue 14 Nov, 19:30 P19 Caption Subtitled film screenings for the week ahead are confirmed on Tuesdays, visit homemcr.org.

Audio Described Theatre / People Places And Things Touch tour, Sat 7 Oct, 13:00 P10 Performance, Sat 7 Oct 14:00 Theatre / Uncle Vanya Touch tour, Sat 11 Nov, 13:00 P19 Performance, Sat 11 Nov, 14:00 Audio Described film screenings for the week ahead are confirmed on Tuesdays, visit homemcr.org.

Access Workshops Theatre / Red Riding Hood and the Wolf Tue 12 Dec, 11:45 - 13:15 P35

Relaxed events Film / Monthly Monthly Theatre / Red Riding Hood and the Wolf Tue 12 Dec, 10:30 P35

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Box Office Online Group Bookings Tue 10 & Wed 11 Oct: FOUNDING PATRONS THEATRE 2 CAMPAIGN CORPORATE MEMBERS PROJECT SUPPORTERS Mon - Sun: 12:00 - 20:00 homemcr.org How To Save The World Arnold and Brenda Bradshaw Garfield Weston Foundation Addleshaw Goddard LLP BFI Theatre 1 Without Really Trying + Ben Caldwell The Fenton Arts Trust Eversheds Sutherland Creative Europe MEDIA Main Gallery Call Groups of 8+, £2.50 off The Believers Are But Brothers Meg and Peter Cooper The Foyle Foundation EY Film Hub North West Central Mon: closed 0161 200 1500 per ticket, plus 1 free ticket £21 (concs. available) John and Penny Early The Garrick Charitable Trust First Manchester Film4 for every 20 booked. Jonathan and Carolyn Moore The Harold Hyam Wingate HFL Building Solutions One Manchester Tue - Sat: 12:00 - 20:00 In person Thu 12 Oct: The Believers Are Stephen and Jane Sorrell Foundation Richard Smith Bespoke Places for People Sun: 12:00 - 18:00 Mon - Sun: 12:00 - 20:00 Groups of 40+, £3.50 off But Brothers + We Are Ian Andy Beaden Slater Heelis LLP per ticket, plus 1 free ticket £21 (concs. available) PATRONS Richard and Joanna Bircher The Manchester College Granada Foundation Gallery Concessions for every 20 booked. Simon and Shalni Arora Arnold and Brenda Bradshaw Mon - Sun: 11:00 - until the Sat 14 Oct: We Are Ian + Darren and Clare Jones Jonty Claypole TRUSTS & FOUNDATIONS building closes Over 60’s, those 17 Theatre 2 How To Win Against History Raj and Reshma Ruia Chris Jeffries Beaverbrooks Charitable Trust and under, and disabled 10% off all tickets, if you £21 (concs. available) Liz and Philip Shapiro Alison Ross Ernest Cook Charitable Trust Ground Floor Bar audience members book 10 or more. Susan Webster Relief Fund for the Victims of Mon - Thu: 10:00 - 23:00 Concessions are available Film SPONSORS the Loss of Flight 4U9525 on theatre and film tickets Tickets must be booked in Groups of 10+, 10% off PLATINUM FRIENDS Auto Trader JMK Trust Fri - Sat: 10:00 - 00:00 for those 17 and under, over advance, not available on each ticket purchased. Georgina Amica-Carpenter B&M Retail Ltd Savannah Wisdom Sun: 11:00 - 22:30 60s, registered unemployed, £5 tickets or preview tickets. Andy Beaden Bruntwood Rycroft Children’s Fund disabled people and students School Theatre Bookings Richard and Joanna Bircher LWC Zurich Community Trust (UK) First Floor Café (subject to availability). Orbit 2017 Double bill Dr Martin Boulton Manchester Airport Mon - Thu: 11:00 - 23:00 ticket deals Theatre 1 Maureen Casket Q-Park Ltd Fri - Sat: 11:00 - 00:00 Student super advance and £11 per ticket, 1 teacher place Alan Hales World Duty Free Sat 30 Sep: The Backseat of Sun: 11:00 - 22:30 registered unemployed people free with every ten students Fiona Hudson A strictly limited number of My Car (and other Safe Places) (or as specified). Peter Wilcox and John Riley £5 tickets are available for + Hurtling £8.50 CHRISTMAS students and the registered Theatre 2 OPENING TIMES unemployed for selected Tue 3 Oct: Eurohouse + 10% off all tickets, if you book Closed: 24, 25, 26, 31 Dec film screenings and theatre Palmyra £21 (concs. available) 10 or more plus 1 free teacher & 1 Jan productions, subject to place per 10 students. availability and on presentation Fri 6 & Sat 7 Oct: salt + of a valid ID. Instructions for Border Available weekdays only. Crossings £21 (concs. available) Must be booked in advance. Not available on £5 tickets or preview tickets.

GETTING HERE ON FOOT Visit tfgm.com/metroshuttle or With our city centre location, follow @OfficialTFGM for the reaching us on foot is simple. latest public transport updates. FUNDed by You could map your route using the interactive Manchester By Metrolink Walking Routes Planner Deansgate-Castlefield is the www.walkit.com/cities nearest Metrolink stop, which is /manchester/ or use a walking less than five minutes’ walk from route app such as mapmywalk HOME. Check the Metrolink website for times and updates By bike (metrolink.co.uk or if you’re on Bike racks are available next Twitter follow @MCRMetrolink. to HOME and the INNSIDE FOUNDING Supporters by Meliá hotel. There are 20 By train Sheffield stands available The nearest rail stations are and additional racks are Deansgate and Oxford Road, installed in the area which are both five minutes’ surrounding First Street. walk from HOME. If you arrive at Piccadilly or Victoria, it’s By bus a 20-minute walk or a short Buses 105 and 256 from journey by tram or Metroshuttle. Piccadilly Gardens stop on Medlock Street. Alternatively, By car OFFICIAL TECHNOLOGY PARTNER We are located on Tony HOME use the Metroshuttles, free The nearest car park is Q-Park Wilson Place, First Street, 2 Tony Wilson Place buses that link main rail at First Street (next door to just off Whitworth Street Manchester M15 4FN stations, car parks, shopping HOME). HOME visitors receive West, roughly opposite the areas and businesses in the a 20% discount on parking Hacienda apartments and city centre. TFGM’s (validate your ticket or show a Metroshuttle bus (Green receipt from our cafe and bar, a short walk from Oxford OFFICIAL HOTEL PARTNER Road and the Deansgate- Route 2) stops near HOME. in the venue). Castlefield Metrolink stop.

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