octOBER 15 — march 16 INKHEART: WHAT IF EVERY book YOU READ… BECAME REAL?
New theatre season: Shakespeare, Beckett, Complicite and more
James Benning’s Greatest Hits
From Safe to Space: new exhibitions
Jim Allen: A Retrospective
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3 QUICK Art theatre head home HOME projects/ DR. ME Choice Cuts Fri 11 Sep - Sun 8 Nov 11:00 - 20:00 P11 Family Theatre Events Second Sun of the month 11:30 See website with the (not Dec) GUIDE Preview/ Joana Hadjithomas and Fri 11 Sep 18:00 - 21:00 P10 Khalil Joreige: I must first apologise… La Mélancolie des Dragons Thu 1 - Sat 3 Oct 14:30 P10 family 19:30 Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige: Sat 12 Sep - Sun 1 Nov P10 TO THE I must first apologise… Golem Wed 7 - Sat 17 Oct 14:30 P11 19:30 Exhibition Tour/ Joana Hadjithomas and Sat 12 Sep 14:00 P10 Khalil Joreige: I must first apologise… The Oresteia Fri 23 Oct - Sat 14 Nov 14:00 P13 SEASON 19:30 Exhibition Tour/ Joana Hadjithomas and Sat 3 Oct 14:00 P10 Khalil Joreige: I must first apologise… (BSL) Inkheart Fri 4 Dec - Sat 9 Jan 10:00 (Schools) P18 14:15 Here are some of the highlights HOME projects/ Elle Brotherhood: Fri 13 Nov - Sun 10 Jan P14 19:00 Start them young – with our great new from October 2015 to March 2016. Manmade vs. Nature Made programme of family film and theatre. PUSH Festival Tue 12 - Sat 23 Jan 19:30 P19 Head online to get the latest news about HOME projects/ Brian Taylor: Movie Poster Fri 13 Nov - Sun 10 Jan P15 what’s on, such as our specially selected Check back on homemcr.org Barbarians: A trilogy by Hofesh Shechter Thu 28 - Sat 30 Jan 19:30 P19 family film screenings on the last Sunday Preview/ Safe Fri 13 Nov 18:00 - 21:00 P14 of every month, or to find out more regularly for all the latest Macbeth Tue 2 - Sat 6 Feb 14:00 P20 information, including the latest Safe Sat 14 Nov - Sun 3 Jan P14 19:30 about the performances and workshops confirmed titles in our weekly we hold on the second Sunday of Exhibition Tour/ Safe Sat 14 Nov 14:00 P14 Endgame Thu 25 Feb - Sat 12 Mar 14:00 P25 each month. programme of UK and international 19:30 independent films, talks, tours Exhibition Tour/ Safe (BSL) Sat 12 Dec 14:00 P14 and events. The Encounter Wed 16 - Sat 19 Mar 14:00 P28 Preview/ AL and AL: Fri 5 Feb 18:00 - 21:00 P20 19:30 Big Family Day Incidents of Travel in the Multiverse SUN 13 DEC HOME from HOME/ Individual shows: P29 AL and AL: Incidents of Travel Sat 6 Feb - Sun 27 Mar P20 Summer. Autumn. Winter. Spring. Tue 22 - Sat 26 Mar Make a day of it this December, in the Multiverse Full quartet: when we will be throwing open our Sat 2 & Sun 3 Apr doors to families. Expect great creative Icarus at the Edge of Time Sat 6 Feb P20 workshops, films and more, including Live multimedia performance HOME from HOME/ The Passion Fri 25 Mar 19:00 P29 featuring the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra Sat 26 Mar 18:00 a visit from Inkheart author Cornelia Funke, the return of Sketch–O–Matic Exhibition Tour/ AL and AL: Sun 7 Dec 14:00 P20 and a fun robot workshop and parade Incidents of Travel in the Multiverse for kids of all ages! Check back for more information, coming soon to Exhibition Tour/ AL and AL: Sat 5 Mar 14:00 P20 homemcr.org/families. Incidents of Travel in the Multiverse (BSL) For more information on Inkheart, our great Christmas family show, see page 18. film THEATRE & OPERA BROADCASTS The Big Family Card – Family Film Screenings Last Sun of the month 11:30 See website Met Opera Live/ Il Trovatore Sat 3 Oct 17:40 See website (not Dec) Tickets from only £4 Royal Opera House Live/ Mon 5 Oct 18:30 P11 Season/ From Caligari to Hitler: Throughout Oct P11 Le nozze de Figaro Sign up for a free HOME Big Family Card Weimar Cinema and get special price tickets for selected More2Screen/ Thu 8 Oct 19:00 P12 family films and theatre performances - Music & Film/ Koyaanisqatsi with Fri 9 & Sat 10 Oct 20:45 P12 The Importance of Being Earnest plus exclusive offers on special events and Live Score from GoGo Penguin in our Café Bar. Complete the form online National Theatre Live/ Hamlet Thu 15 Oct 18:45 P12 or call us with your details, and pick up Love on the Dole Fri 16 Oct 18:00 P12 your card on your next visit. And as soon as Met Opera Live/ Otello Sat 17 Oct 17:40 P12 you’ve signed up you can get tickets for our Season/ I must first apologise… Sun 18 Oct 18:00 P10 Nebraska Royal Shakespeare Company Live/ Wed 21 Oct 18:45 P12 Sunday Family Film Screenings for just £4*. Henry V Check out The Big Knights, our November The 2015 Jarman Award Tue 20 Oct 18:20 P12 Family Film on page 15. Touring Programme + Q&A Met Opera Live/ Tannhäuser Sat 31 Oct 15:45 P13 Sign up now. Call 0161 200 1500 Black History Month/ Daughters of the Dust Sat 24 Oct 18:00 P13 National Theatre Live/ Of Mice and Men Thu 19 Nov 18:45 P15 or visit homemcr.org/families.
Black History Month/ Nothing But a Man Tue 27 Oct 18:20 P13 Met Opera Live/ Lulu Sat 21 Nov 17:15 P15 * Purchases must include at least one child’s ticket (16 and under) and one adult ticket Season/ I must first apologise... Sun 1 Nov 16:00 P10 National Theatre Live/ Jane Eyre Tue 8 Dec 18:45 P18 I Want to See (Je veux voir) (18+) for the offer to apply. Maximum of five Royal Opera House Live/ Thu 10 Dec 19:00 P18 tickets per transaction. Tickets subject to Season/ Safe: Alienation, Fear, Nov & Dec P14 Cavalleria Rusticana & Pagliacci availability, offer cannot be used with Paranoia and Film Form any other discount or promotion. Met Opera Live/ Les Pêcheurs de Perles Sat 16 Jan 17:40 P19 ¡Viva! presents New Spanish Cinema Thu 5 - Mon 9 Nov P14 Met Opera Live/ Turandot Sat 30 Jan 17:40 P19 Manchester Animation Festival Tue 17 - Thu 19 Nov P15 Royal Opera House Live/ La Traviata Thu 4 Feb 18:30 P20 Family Film Screening: The Big Knights Sun 29 Nov 11:30 P15 National Theatre Live/ As You Like It Thu 25 Feb 18:45 P25 Season/ James Benning: People & Places Throughout Dec P6 Met Opera Live/ Manon Lescaut Sat 5 Mar 17:40 P28 Season/ Jim Allen: A Retrospective Throughout Jan P16 Royal Opera House Live/ Boris Godunov Mon 21 Mar 19:00 P28 Season/ AL and AL: Incidents of Travel Feb & Mar P20 in the Multiverse
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4 BOOK NOW AT HOMEmcr.org or call 0161 200 1500 BOOK NOW AT HOMEmcr.org or call 0161 200 1500 5 FILM SEASON BELOW: Twenty Cigarettes, James Benning James Benning: People and Places Screening in December
An independent filmmaker and essayist with a unique voice, the American James Benning recently relinquished a dedication to 16mm film and instead embraced digital technology. Yet despite that shift, his sense of economy and formal rigour has remained. Focusing on places and faces and shooting in long, unedited scenes, 20 Benning effectively offers a documentation of time and a consideration of everyday reality.
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HOME’s Artistic Director for film, Jason Wood, Small Roads - Here, Benning films 47 roads in explores a unique filmmaker ahead of a two-part the USA: not only expansive landscapes crossed by
film season of his work. The five works presented trains, but also narrow lanes where only an occasional during our film season are all drawn from his animal or vehicle passes. This is a virtuoso landscape digital endeavours: painting that depicts each two-lane blacktop from a central perspective, and it’s an entirely mesmerising Ruhr - In Ruhr, Benning allows his camera to work that redefines the notion of the road movie. roam the Ruhr Valley in Germany with six meticulously framed takes at places where apparently little Faces - A remake of John Cassavetes’ critically happens: a tunnel with a single car, a forest where acclaimed film of the same name, this version planes race overhead, a factory with glowing rods pushes it to its ultimate consequence: strictly faces, of steel, a mosque with a hundred bowing heads, each shot lasting as long as in the 1968 original. a wall where someone takes up arms against graffiti, What’s more, Benning concentrates entirely on static and an enormous chimney from which smoke is close-ups of the actors, caught in uncomfortable occasionally belched out. They seem to come from silences, and binds himself and the actors by three rules: a different reality, but are also familiar: worrying 1) Only close-ups of the faces of the actors in Faces. and reassuring at the same time. Ruhr was Benning’s 2) Every actor should be on screen the same length first film shot entirely outside of the United States. of time that they were in the original; 3) Every scene should last as long as it did in Cassavetes’ film. One Way Boogie Woogie - Benning originally
“I have a a “I have shot One Way Boogie Woogie in 1977. He wanted Twenty Cigarettes - We watch twenty who pays pays who definition definition
The artist artist The to record the demise of the industrial landscape individuals, each of them smoking a cigarette.
is someone is someone in his birthplace, Milwaukee. Twenty-seven years Some of them are familiar. Others we’ve never seen very simple simple very
of an artist. of an artist. later he returned to shoot the same one-minute before. But they all give us time to read their body shots of the same location and with the same language. We embark on a journey across foreign reports back.” back.” reports attention and and attention extras (and the same soundtrack). The film shows facial landscapes, through long inhalations into the the creeping inevitability of progress and is inside of their bodies, and into the invisible world undoubtedly the most experimental remake ever. of their thoughts as we imagine them to be.
Ruhr, James Benning
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8 9 ART LIVE THEATRE BROADCAST COURSE ART/ HOME PROJECTS Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige: I must first apologise… Royal Opera House Live Until SUN 1 NOV, FREE Essential DR.ME: Choice Cuts Le Nozze di Figaro Introduction Until SUN 8 NOV, FREE This major new exhibition from the MON 5 OCT, 18:30 Beirut-based artists Joana Hadjithomas to Film Studies On the Granada Foundation Gallery and Khalil Joreige explores the history of Often considered a perfect opera, Le nozze STARTS TUE 6 OCT, 18:30 - 20:30 walls on floors 1 and 2, we present work online spam and scamming via a selection di Figaro represents Mozart’s genius at its by DR.ME (Ryan Doyle and Mark Edwards), of film, sculpture, photography and most lively and delightful. Based on a play This absolute beginners’ course introduces taken from their recent year-long project installation. Originally exhibited at Villa that was originally banned for its political participants to the basic concepts of film 365 Days of Collage. Drawing upon Arson in 2014, I must first apologise… content, the fast-moving libretto creates as a (narrative) art form in a lively and advertising ephemera, travel supplements, maps out a genealogy of online scamming, realistic characters made even more well-structured way. The overall aim of ethnographic magazines and material revealing a complex world where greed the course is for students to get to know sourced from thrift stores – much of it
october october human by Mozart’s outstanding music. and desire question traditional ethics. With a cast led by the star bass Erwin a variety of films and their contexts, from Paramount Books in Shudehill – to begin to express their opinions on film the repurposing of found images results The exhibition unfolds in the shape of Do more Watch more: To complement Schrott, who has sung the role to great in a more detailed, more informed way, in a collision of meaning and revised intent. installations, sounds, videos, sculptures the exhibition I must first apologise..., acclaim at Covent Garden, and star Read more: The Rumours of the and above all to enhance their experience The result is often humourous, always and drawings. You’ll encounter recurring Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige Romanian soprano Anita Hartig in the World: Rethinking Trust in the Age of watching films. The course includes startling and frequently sinister, lead characters and minor ones, scammers, have worked with the HOME team to role of Susanna, David McVicar’s popular of the Internet, edited by Omar Kholeif, six sessions with the course tutor and as jumbled limbs clash with vivid victims, scambeaters eager to scam the curate a selection of films from the staging of this comedy is overseen by will be produced especially for this two course screenings. patterns, and landscapes are pierced scammers, parallel edits, scenarios and artists’ back catalogue that includes leading British conductor Ivor Bolton. virtual fictions as you are immersed in exhibition and available in the bookshop. by unlikely architecture. shorts, documentaries and feature films. Led by Maggie Hoffgen, this strange and unexplored underworld. To complete the season, Khalil Joreige Composed by Wolfgang See more: Join the curators and artists Freelance Film Educator. At HOME, alongside a series of new has selected a screening of Alexander Amadeus Mozart. Curated by Omar Kholeif and Sarah Perks. to find out more about the foundations works created especially for this exhibition, Payne’s wonderfully touching Nebraska, of the exhibition. Tickets £80 full / £60 conc, 8 weeks some of DR.ME’s original works have Co-produced by HOME (Manchester), a film that explores the exhibition’s topic Tickets £15 - £12 (conc. available) Sat 3 Oct, 14:00, FREE, BSL Interpreted. been digitally printed at a bigger scale, Villa Arson (Nice), and MIT List Visual of scamming and the will to believe. exaggerating the halftone inking, Arts Center (Cambridge, USA). distressed edges and truncated assembly to create a magnified perspective of Supported by the letterbox originals.
THEATRE THEATRE FILM Nanterre-Amandiers presents La Mélancolie des Dragons THU 1 - SAT 3 OCT HOME INTERNATIONAL GUEST ARTIST UK PREMIERE
International hit La Mélancolie des Dragons heads to HOME for its UK premiere. The poetic and playful story From Caligari to of a band of long-haired metalheads on a quest to build a hard-rock amusement Hitler: Weimar Cinema park, La Mélancolie des Dragons is a SCREENINGS THROUGHOUT OCTOBER breathtaking blend of theatre and visual art from our 2015 international guest To coincide with 1927’s production of artist, Philippe Quesne, the artistic director Golem we present a series of films of Nanterre-Amandiers Theatre in Paris. made during the Weimar Republic, Featuring a car, a dog, classic rock, Created and presented by 1927 A 1927, Salzburg Festival, Theatre de la the centrepiece of which is a preview medieval recorders, a snowy stage, Ville Paris & Young Vic co-production. screening of Rudiger Suchsland’s it’s a visually stunning mix of imagination, exceptional documentary, From Caligari music, and charming (and undeniably Golem Tickets £29.50 - £10 (conc. available) to Hitler, a look at German cinema in the French) humour. WED 7 - SAT 17 OCT age of the masses. The Weimar Republic Accessible performances: (1918 - 33) was the free-est state on Conceived, directed and designed Like a giant graphic novel burst into life, Caption Subtitled: Tue 13 Nov, 19:30 German soil, a wild era characterised by by HOME’s 2015 international guest “A great, humorous 1927 invites you to take a step through Audio described + Touch Tour: disruption, crisis and cultural brilliance. artist, Philippe Quesne. Nanterre- the looking glass into a dark and Wed 14 Nov, 19:30 It was also the arguably the most fertile Amandiers, centre dramatique national fantastical tale of an extraordinary, BSL Interpreted: Thu 15 Nov, 19:30 period in the history of German cinema, is supported by Institut Français and deeply ordinary man. Fresh from a sell-out run a time full of wonder and invention in which for its international tours. at London’s Young Vic, with a host of five the aesthetic foundations were laid for the touching work.” star reviews from critics from Berlin to ‘seventh art’. Weimar’s directors including Tickets £22.50 - £10 London to Sydney, Golem blends stunningly Murnau, Lang, Lubitsch (amongst others) (conc. available) DER STANDARD, VIENNA original animation with entrancing music remain legendary figures and films such and live performance. And it explores as Nosferatu, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, one of the great questions of the modern “See Golem, The Golem and Metropolis brilliantly reveal world – who or what is in control of a post World War I Germany in a state our technologies? and marveL.” of flux. This season will include a One Supported by Hour Intro led by freelance film educator, Directed by Suzanne Andrade. London Evening Maggie Hoffgen. Film, animation & design by Paul Barritt. Standard homemcr.org/weimar-cinema
10 BOOK NOW AT HOMEmcr.org or call 0161 200 1500 BOOK NOW AT HOMEmcr.org or call 0161 200 1500 11 LIVE MUSIC AND FILM LIVE THEATRE BROADCAST The Met season continues with Verdi’s FILM SEASON LIVE THEATRE BROADCAST masterful Otello, inspired by Shakespeare’s play and matching it in tragic intensity. Black HISTORY MONTH Director Bartlett Sher probes the Moor’s To mark Black History Month UK, we present two exceptional dramatic downfall with an outstanding and ground-breaking films from the archive, one of which, cast: tenor Aleksandrs Antonenko plays Nothing But A Man, was cited as Malcolm X’s favourite film. the doomed Otello, new soprano star Sonya Yoncheva sings Desdemona, Otello’s GoGo Penguin National Theatre Live innocent wife and victim, and baritone Met Opera Live Željko Lučić plays the evil Iago, who Koyaanisqatsi with Hamlet masterminds Otello’s demise. Dynamic Tannhäuser Live Score from With Benedict Cumberbatch maestro Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts. SAT 31 OCT, 15:45 THU 15 OCT, 18:45 GoGo Penguin (U) Composed by Giuseppe Verdi. Production James Levine conducts Wagner’s early FRI 9 & SAT 10 OCT, 20:45 Academy Award nominee Benedict a gift of Jacqueline Desmarais, in memory Daughters Nothing But a Man (12A) masterpiece in its first return to the Met Cumberbatch (BBC’s Sherlock, of Paul G. Desmarais Sr. stage in more than a decade. Today’s Dir Godfrey Reggio/US 1982/86 mins TUE 27 OCT, 18:20 The Imitation Game, Frankenstein at of the Dust (PG) leading Wagnerian tenor, Johan Botha, the National Theatre) takes on the title Tickets £18.50 - £14 (conc. available) SAT 24 OCT, 18:00 takes on the daunting title role of the This special Music & Film event features Another landmark of American cinema, role of Shakespeare’s great tragedy. young knight caught between true love a screening of the stunning visual poem this uniquely truthful depiction of black life Screened on 35mm with permission by and passion. Eva-Maria Westbroek is october Koyaanisqatsi with a new and unique score october in early 1960s Alabama rightly won great Directed by Lyndsey Turner the director herself, Julie Dash’s Daughters Elisabeth, adding another Wagner heroine from Manchester’s Mercury-nominated FILM acclaim at the Venice, London and New (Posh, Chimerica) and produced of the Dust is a landmark of independent to her Met repertoire after her acclaimed hard-hitting-jazz-meets-electronica three York film festivals. Though it then sank by Sonia Friedman Productions. film. With great lyricism, the film tells the Sieglinde in the Ring a few seasons ago. piece GoGo Penguin. into relative obscurity, a recent restoration story of a large African-American family On the heels of his recent triumph in by the Library of Congress has again Tickets £15 - £13 (conc. available) as it prepares to move north in the early Parsifal, Peter Mattei sings Wolfram, Koyaanisqatsi, Godfrey Reggio’s debut as made its many virtues gloriously apparent. 1900s. Using this simple tale, the film and Michelle DeYoung is the love a film director and producer, is the first Terrific performances by the mostly African and best known film of the Qatsi trilogy, brings to life the changing values, conflicts goddess, Venus. and struggles that confront every family as American cast, eloquent camerawork by depicting different aspects of relationships LITERATURE Roemer’s writing partner Robert M Young, between humans, nature and technology. they leave their homeland for the promise Composed by Richard Wagner. The 2015 Jarman Award of a new and better future. An African- and a matchless soundtrack of Motown Consisting primarily of slow motion and tunes make for understated but powerful time-lapse footage of cities and many Touring Programme American treasure and a vitally important Tickets £18.50 - £14 (conc. available) work by a major directing talent. drama that still feels surprisingly modern natural landscapes across America, + Q&A (CTBA) and relevant. Koyaanisqatsi contains neither dialogue TUE 20 OCT, 18:20 nor a vocalised narration: its tone is set by the juxtaposition of images and music. Meet the UK artists breaking boundaries Manchester Literature in moving image. Fall into genre-bending Manchester based acoustic-electronica trio Festival presents documentaries and lyrical time-travelling GoGo Penguin are pianist Chris Illingworth, tapestries on the big screen with the bassist Nick Blacka and drummer Rob Love on the Dole (PG) latest works from the six shortlisted Turner. Defined by skittering break-beats, FRI 16 OCT, 18:00 artists for this year’s Jarman Award – powerful sub-bass, telepathic interplay Dir John Baxter/GB 1941/95 mins Adam Chodzko, Seamus Harahan, THEATRE and a penchant for anthemic melody Deborah Kerr, Clifford Evans, Gail Pickering, Alia Syed, Bedwyr Williams they create an emotionally rich palate George Carney, Joyce Howard and Andrea Luka Zimmerman. “The Oresteia is a for the listener that has seen them hailed great civic drama. as the most exciting new band to emerge A double treat for lovers of classic British Event/ We are pleased to welcome Seamus from the UK in years. film and local literature: a rare cinema Harahan for a post-screening Q&A. It is about movement screening of the seminal British drama Music & Film is produced by HOME in Love on the Dole, starring Deborah Kerr filmlondon.org.uk/jarmanaward of power from the collaboration with the University of Salford as a Lancashire mill girl fallen on hard and is supported by Film Hub North West times, and Clifford Evans as the out-of- few to the many, and Central, a partner in the BFI’s Film Audience work labourer she loves. This 1941 feature LIVE THEATRE BROADCAST about the movement Network, which aims to build audiences was adapted from Walter Greenwood’s for film and present cinema in new and tale of love and loss in Salford’s Hanky of humans from exciting ways. Park during the Great Depression – and remains a powerful and evocative primeval darkness Tickets £12 - £9. Doors open 20:30. work of social history. into light. It feels Latecomers will not be admitted CITIZEN 01 Leanne, Chorlton to this event. The film will be introduced by CP Lee, right to be doing popular culture commentator, Royal Shakespeare Company Live author and musician. this in Manchester, Henry V HOME presents Newcomer Award), with an ensemble a great city with of actors playing multiple roles that LIVE THEATRE BROADCAST For more information, visit the WED 21 OCT, 18:45 Manchester Literature Festival website a long, noble and The Oresteia cross generations and genders. manchesterliteraturefestival.co.uk . Henry IV is dead and Hal is King. continuing history FRI 23 OCT - SAT 14 NOV The central role of the chorus - With England in a state of unrest, he must WORLD PREMIERE the voice of the citizens - will be This project is part of the BFI’s Britain leave his rebellious youth behind, striving of agitation for the taken by the people of Manchester on Film Season supported by to gain the respect of the nobility and his Terrible secrets are handed down through in this stunning new production Unlocking Film Heritage, people. Laying claim to parts of France greater good.” the generations in a bloody chain of murder of Aeschlus’ masterpiece. awarding funds from and following an insult from the French and revenge. The Oresteia, the first great The National Lottery . Dauphin, Henry gathers his troops and BLANCHE MCINTYRE, More2Screen presents work of theatre written two and a half Translated by Ted Hughes. prepares for a war that he hopes will DIRECTOR thousand years ago, is as gripping and Directed by Blanche McIntyre. The Importance unite his country. RSC Artistic Director relevant as it ever was. Where is justice LIVE THEATRE BROADCAST Gregory Doran continues his exploration of of Being Earnest in a landscape of blood? Taking the Tickets £29.50 - £10 (conc. available) Shakespeare’s History Plays with Henry V, translation by one of the great poets of THU 8 OCT, 19:00 performed in the 600th anniversary year the twentieth century, Ted Hughes, this Previews 23 Oct (£10) of the Battle of Agincourt. Following his swift-moving, newly cut version condenses 24, 26, 27 Oct (£12.50) Don’t miss Olivier Award winner and Poirot performance as Hal in Henry IV Parts I & II, Aeschylus’ epic trilogy into one play. star David Suchet as the formidable Lady Alex Hassell returns as Henry V. Bracknell in this live theatre broadcast of Accessible performances: HOME welcomes director Blanche McIntyre Audio Described + Touch Tour: Thu 5 Nov, 19:30 Oscar Wilde’s much loved masterpiece, Tickets £15 - £12 (conc. available) (Best Director TMA 2013 UK Theatre directed by Adrian Noble (Amadeus, The Caption Subtitled: Wed 11 Nov, 19:30 Met Opera Live Awards; Critics’ Circle Most Promising King’s Speech, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang). BSL Interpreted: Fri 13 Nov, 19:30 Otello Tickets £15 - £13 (conc. available) SAT 17 OCT, 17:40
12 BOOK NOW AT HOMEmcr.org or call 0161 200 1500 BOOK NOW AT HOMEmcr.org or call 0161 200 1500 13 ART FILM FESTIVAL ART/ HOME PROJECTS Of Mice and Men is directed by Tony Award, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circles award winner Anna D. Shapiro (Broadway’s August: Osage County) Image and features Leighton Meester (Country Strong, Gossip Girl) and Tony Award winner Jim Norton (The Seafarer). Brian Taylor: Tickets £15 - £13 (conc. available) Movie Posters FRI 13 NOV - SUN 10 JAN, FREE LIVE THEATRE BROADCAST
¡Viva! presents Brian Taylor’s series of hyper-realistic New Spanish and reimagined posters for classic action, horror and sci-fi movie titles are created Cinema through a painstaking process of gathering THU 5 - MON 9 NOV existing film stills and design imagery from the period of each film’s release. The final instalment of the 21st ¡Viva! HOME Projects displays Brian’s entire Met Opera Live Spanish and Latin American Film Festival: series to date, including Alien, Aliens, The Weekenders, features an excellent Blade Runner, Predator, RoboCop, Lulu
november line-up of five great films from Spain, november The Thing, Total Recall, Mad Max 2, SAT 21 NOV, 17:15 including one in Catalan and one in An American Werewolf in London the Basque language. We’ll open the and Terminator 2, with further new Acclaimed artist and director William Safe Do more Weekender with thrilling drama Felices additions to be announced. Kentridge (The Nose) applies his unique SAT 14 NOV - SUN 3 JAN, FREE 140, the first of four films featuring strong theatrical vision to Berg’s notorious femme Read more: Transactions of Desire: female leads battling to resolve crises: fatale who shatters the lives of everyone, Are you allergic to the 21st century This major new group exhibition takes from the dark black humour of animation FILM FESTIVAL including her own. The masterful score is Todd Haynes’ influential and understated will be produced especially for Pos eso to light-hearted fun in Requisitos in the sure hands of Met Music Director, masterpiece, Safe (1995) as a starting this exhibition and available in para ser una persona normal. Striking a James Levine. Soprano Marlis Petersen point for a series of new commissions the bookshop. very different note, we have the political has excited audiences around the world in moving image, sculpture, print, writing thriller Lasa eta Zabala depicting real life with her portrayal of the tour-de-force and performance from Claire Makhlouf See more: Join curators Louise events from the so-called Dirty War in title role; a wild journey of love, obsession, Carter, Chris Paul Daniels, Michael Dean, O’Hare & Sarah Perks and many of mid-1980s Spain. Details of Castilian and death. Susan Graham joins a winning Sunil Gupta, Laura Morrison, Yoshua Okon, the artists on a gallery tour to find and Catalan language events, guest Q&As cast, including Daniel Brenna and 2014 Turner Prize nominee James Richard, out more about the complex and very and a One Hour Intro coming soon! Johan Reuter. Jala Wahid and Camilla Wills. different work found in this exhibition. Manchester Bouncing between the physical and homemcr.org/viva-spanish-weekender Composed by Alban Berg. Production the psychological, they ask: “Are you Animation Festival Haynes’ film stars Julianne Moore as Carol TUE 17 - THU 19 NOV a gift of The Kirsh Family Foundation. White, a 1980s Californian housewife who allergic to the 21st century?” Tell them Co-production of the Metropolitan what you think and they’ll provide becomes allergic to her carefully controlled ART/ HOME PROJECTS Opera, Dutch National Opera, a diagnosis by way of the artists’ The inaugural Manchester Animation personal environment. It can be read as a Festival arrives at HOME on Tue 17 - and English National Opera. reflection on environmental issues, sexual starting points and working methods. Sat 14 Nov, 14:00, FREE. Thu 19 Nov. The animated film competition politics, the AIDS epidemic and suburban screenings will be accompanied by industry Tickets £18.50 - £14 (conc. available) disillusionment. White appears trapped, Sat 12 Dec, 14:00, FREE, BSL Interpreted. screentalks, workshops, retrospectives, either incapable or unwilling to reconcile networking and exclusives. Whether the psychological and the physical. you love animation or just want to see FILM Watch more: Safe: Alienation, Fear, Paranoia and Film Form. something different, there’s something Safe is one of a series of exhibitions for everyone. coming up at HOME that takes a classic In terms of its exploration of Elle Brotherhood: or influential film as inspiration. alienation, fear, paranoia and Manmade vs. the feeling of helplessness when manchesteranimationfestival.co.uk Curated by Louise O’Hare and Sarah Perks. confronted by a rapidly changing Nature Made world, there are few films that FRI 13 NOV - SUN 10 JAN, FREE surpass Todd Haynes’ thoughtful THEATRE BROADCAST and stylish Safe. We have Elle Brotherhood’s photography, shown in The Big Knights (U) programmed a series of films that the Granada Foundation Gallery on floor 1, SUN 29 NOV, 11:30 focus on women and explore a is shot on traditional 35mm film and Dir Neville Astley & Mark Baker/GB variety of ways in which we find with a digital camera. Imaginative and 2015/70 mins “Imagine ourselves dislocated from the world experimental, using prop and set design, around us, a complex world that Elle creates fantastical scenes comprised In the far off land of Borovia, where becoming perhaps too many of us are happy of the people, nature, found and made dragons are fierce, witches are wicked, to simply accept. The season is objects she encounters. Elle studied National Theatre Live scientists are insane, the economy is bad allergic to equally interested in how filmmakers photography at MMU’s Manchester Of Mice and Men and television is in black and white, have chosen to explore these ideas School of Art and is based at the stands Castle Big, home of The Big Knights. everything formally in terms of film style, PLANT lab studio in Hotspur Press. With James Franco and Chris O’Dowd and how they communicate their THU 19 NOV, 18:45 From the award-winning animators behind you enjoy…” ideas about people’s relationships Peppa Pig, The Big Knights revolves around with the modern world. The hit Broadway production Of Mice the exploits of brothers Sir Boris (the finest and Men, filmed on stage in New York by swordsman in the world), Sir Morris (the Keep an eye on homemcr.org National Theatre Live, screens at HOME. most enthusiastic) and their noble pets, for the latest information on Sir Horace the Dog and Sir Doris the Hamster. titles and screening dates. Golden Globe winner and Academy Award nominee James Franco (127 Hours, Milk) Narrated by Alexander Armstrong and and Tony Award nominee Chris O’Dowd voiced with bellicose charm by Brian (Bridesmaids) star in the highly anticipated Blessed (Sir Morris) and David Rintoul screenings of this ‘riveting, powerful (Sir Boris), the brothers are the height production’ (Independent). of two men, the weight of four and the strength of sixteen. They right wrongs, This landmark revival of Nobel Prize winner rescue princesses and woe betide John Steinbeck’s play is a powerful portrait anything that gets in their way! of the American spirit and a heartbreaking testament to the bonds of friendship. Tickets £4 with HOME Big Family Card (See page 5)
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Jim Allen: a retrospective Screening in January
STILL RELEVANT
Top: Hidden Agenda, Jim Allen AFTER ALL THESE YEARS Bottom: Hidden Agenda, Jim Allen
Dr. Andy Willis, Reader in Film Studies at the The Rank and File (1971). These single plays were University of Salford, tells us about the influential followed up by a landmark four-part series, Days of Manchester screenwriter who has inspired an Hope (1975), a work that’s still seen as one of the upcoming film retrospective at HOME. best and most ambitious political dramas of the era. By the end of the 1970s, Allen found himself From The Lump in the 1960s and The Spongers working with another key collaborator, this time in the 1970s to Land and Freedom over twenty the director Roland Joffé. Together, they made a years later, Manchester-born screenwriter Jim Allen pair of television dramas that explored the politics was responsible for some of the most powerful of the local and the personal. The Spongers (1978) and influential political films and television dramas and United Kingdom (1981) are uncompromising ever produced in Britain. analyses of a rapidly changing country that was In early 2016, we will hold a retrospective to increasingly failing those on the social margins, celebrate some of Allen’s key works, a season that as the structures designed to support them were includes screenings, talks and discussions, plus dismantled and those elected to protect them special guests who worked with Allen across his turned their backs in acts of political self-interest. career as well as those influenced by his writing The opportunities within television reduced and political commitment. in the 1990s and so Allen, again working with Ken As with many writers of the 1960s, Allen got Loach, moved into cinema. A trio of films followed – his first break working on Coronation Street, but he by any standards among the key works of the era – quickly found the format of the soap too restrictive Hidden Agenda (1990), Raining Stones (1993) and and looked to the developing arena of the single Land and Freedom (1995). Allen’s final script for the play to fully develop his talent. Supported by brilliant Land and Freedom is as good as anything legendary producer Tony Garnett, he developed he ever wrote, and remains the best film about not a script based on his experiences of working in only the Spanish civil war but the betrayal of political the building trade. Paired with director Jack Gold, ideals, a theme Allen first explored way back in it became The Lump (1967), Allen’s first contribution the 1960s with The Lump. to the BBC’s Wednesday Play series. Jim Allen remains one of the most important Allen then began one of his most productive British screenwriters of the 20th century, his work periods, working with Tony Garnett and director driven by a commitment to socialist politics. Ken Loach to produce two more powerful and He was unafraid to ask important and still highly controversial dramas that explored the politics relevant questions about power, compassion and of the workplace: The Big Flame (1969) and how we might strive to create a better world for all.
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National Theatre Live Met Opera Live Met Opera Live Jane Eyre Les Pêcheurs Turandot TUE 8 DEC, 18:45 de Perles SAT 30 JAN, 17:40 SAT 16 JAN, 17:40 Almost 170 years on from its publication, PUSH FESTIVAL Christine Goerke, Lise Lindstrom, Charlotte Brontë’s story of the trailblazing TUE 12 - SAT 23 JAN Bizet’s gorgeous opera of lust and longing and Nina Stemme, three of opera’s Jane is as inspiring as ever. This bold and set in the Far East returns to the Met stage greatest dramatic sopranos, take turns dynamic production uncovers one woman’s Re:Play Festival is reborn! for the first time in 100 years. Soprano in the title role of the proud princess of fight for freedom and fulfilment on ancient China, whose unsolvable riddles
january Immerse yourself in two weeks’ worth Diana Damrau stars as Leïla, the beautiful her own terms. From her beginnings as of new and extraordinary theatrical Hindu priestess pursued by rival pearl doom every suitor who seeks her hand. a destitute orphan, Jane Eyre’s spirited experiences, some never seen before, divers competing for her hand. Her suitors Tenors Marcelo Álvarez and Marco Berti heroine faces life’s obstacles head-on, some that demand to be seen again, are tenor Matthew Polenzani and baritone are Calàf, the brave prince who sings surviving poverty, injustice and the Nessun dorma and wins her love. december and all created by Greater Manchester’s Mariusz Kwiecien, who sing the lilting duet discovery of bitter betrayal before taking most exciting companies and performers. Au fond du temple saint, which opera Franco Zeffirelli’s golden production the ultimate decision to follow her heart. Staged in HOME’s Theatre 2. fans will know and adore. Director Penny is conducted by Paolo Carignani. This acclaimed reimagining of Brontë’s Woolcock explores the timeless themes masterpiece was first staged by Bristol Tickets £18 - £10 (conc. available) of pure love, betrayal and vengeance in Composed by Giacomo Puccini. Old Vic. Director Sally Cookson now a production that vividly creates an brings her celebrated production to Check homemcr.org in Autumn 2015 undersea world on the stage of the Met. Tickets £18.50 - £14 (conc. available) the National Theatre. for more details and how to book. Conductor Gianandrea Noseda brings HOME presents his romantic flair to the lush score from Child tickets: £10 all seats, all shows. Tickets £15 - £13 (conc. available) the composer of Carmen. IH15_Q3_XXX_Listings_Image_83x106mm_AW.inddInkheart 1 21/08/2015 16:50 Composed by Georges Bizet. Production FRI 4 DEC - SAT 9 JAN This Christmas, HOME presents Inkheart, LIVE THEATRE BROADCAST a gift of the Gramma Fisher Foundation, UK PREMIERE adapted from Cornelia Funke’s brilliant, Marshalltown, Iowa. Additional funding worldwide best-selling fantasy adventure from Mr. and Mrs. William R. Miller. novel for children. Books can take us to a Co-production originally created by different world – but what happens if that English National Opera. world is full of dark magic and ferocious and forbidding villains, where secrets are Tickets £18.50 - £14 (conc. available) revealed and stories come alive? Royal Opera House Live Join our hero, Meggie as she finds herself “THIS bang in the middle of the kind of adventure Cavalleria Rusticana DANCE Image: Jake Walters she’s only ever read about in books. & Pagliacci Thrust into an epic battle with the baddest “Superb stuff: CHRISTMAS, of bad guys, will Meggie and her team of THU 10 DEC, 19:00 unconventional allies be able to stay one step ahead and keep those they love These two short Italian operas are each juicy, nervy WHAT IF safe from danger? regarded as the composers’ masterpiece, and are brought together in a new staging EVERY BOOK Inkheart leaps from page to stage in by award-winning director Damiano ensembles this funny, thrilling and action-packed Michieletto, who sets both operas in a UK premiere for families. HOME Artistic poverty stricken, Mafia controlled village and a wittily YOU READ… Director: Theatre, Walter Meierjohann, in 1980s southern Italy. The Royal Opera’s collaborating with writer Stephen Sharkey Music Director Antonio Pappano conducts BECAME and a distinguished international creative a cast that includes charismatic Dutch unsettling team, including award winning designer soprano Eva-Maria Westbroek, exciting Stéphane Laimé, create a breathtaking Italian soprano Carmen Giannattasio commentary.” REAL?” visual world that vividly blurs the and the thrilling Latvian tenor boundaries between real-life and fiction. Aleksandrs Antonenko. The Guardian on the barbarians in love Directed by Walter Meierjohann. Adapted Composed by Pietro Mascagni from the novel by Cornelia Funke by and Ruggero Leoncavallo. Stephen Sharkey and Walter Meierjohann. grooves in tHE bAD – at once joyous and Tickets £15 - £12 (conc. available) Barbarians trance-like – and a poignant duet, which Tickets £33 - £10 (conc. available) A TRILOGY BY HOFESH SHECHTER together complete an evening showcasing All child tickets £10 THU 28 - SAT 30 JAN the singular and wry voice of their creator Preview 4 Dec (£15) and the versatility and talent of his Following his sell-out performances individual dancers. Accessible performances: of tHE bAD at Home in April 2015, Co-commissioned by Sadler’s Wells Caption Subtitled: Fri 18 Dec, 19:00 the infinitely unpredictable Shechter London, Les Théâtres de la Ville de BSL Interpreted: Sat 19 Dec, 14:15 returns to present a sparse world for Luxembourg, Théâtre de la Ville – Audio Described + Touch Tour: three wildly different takes on intimacy, Paris, Berliner Festspiele – Foreign Affairs, Mon 21 Dec, 19:00 passion and the banality of love. Maison de la Danse – Lyon, Festival d’Avignon, HOME Manchester, Age guidance 8+ Revealing his choreography at its most elegant and intimate, the highly acclaimed Festspielhaus, St Pölten (including a and perturbing the barbarians in love working residency – the barbarians opens the evening. in love) and Hessisches Staatsballett, Staaststheater Darmstadt / Wiesbaden Trembling with emotion residing within (including a working residency). order, six white-clad figures move as one to the strains of an ecclesiastic baroque score. Tickets £18 - £10 (conc. available) What follows, as two very different works Age guidance 14+: contains nudity unfold, is a volatile explosion of dubstep and explicit lyrics.
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FEBRUARY betrayal and suicide. Beginning with on request, plus there are Filmed Up is our regular interpreted performances Shakespeare’s text, the powerful and reduced price tickets for North West filmmakers’ and tours, and captioned unsettling choreography weaves its schools for all theatre night. With screenings every performances and films. way throughout the story, culminating and film screenings. quarter and the programme There are wheelchair spaces in an unforgettable final act where selected from an open in Theatre 1 and all of our words falter and finally give way. For full programme details, visit homemcr.org/schools submission of short films cinema screens, with full lift Directed by Carrie Cracknell or contact us at under 20 minutes in duration access to all floors. All our and Lucy Guerin. [email protected]. of any genre, old or new, cinemas also have induction made by filmmakers currently loops and assistance dogs Tickets £29.50 - £10 (conc. available) Local Communities based in the North West, are very welcome. it’s a chance to get your Accessible performances: Our Inspire Ticket Scheme Caption subtitled: Wed 3 Feb, 19:30 supplies low cost theatre work seen by our audiences. Audio described + Touch Tour: tickets and free venue tours Submissions are accepted Thu 4 Feb, 19:30 to local community groups all year round. BSL Interpreted: Sat 6 Feb, 19:30 keen to experience all that’s on at HOME. It’s a scheme LIVE THEATRE BROADCAST ART that’s generously funded by The Oglesby Charitable of Icarus at the Edge of Time will be performed by the BBC Philharmonic on Trust and supported by Saturday 7 February at the Royal Northern Transport for Greater College of Music. Ticket and booking Manchester and First Bus. details are to be announced soon. The second journey, The Creator, sees AL Royal Opera House Live AL and AL: and AL’s 2012 film premiere installed in the Find out more and sign up to La Traviata Incidents of Travel gallery at HOME; it imagines the computer the newsletter to find out about pioneer Alan Turing, the father of Artificial opportunities at homemcr.org THU 4 FEB, 18:30 in the Multiverse Intelligence, visited on his deathbed by SAT 6 FEB - SUN 27 MAR, FREE ‘thinking machines’ that have travelled La Traviata is regarded as one of Verdi’s back in time to meet him. finest operas, while Richard Eyre’s HOME presents Incidents of Travel in traditional staging is one of The Royal The third journey, also in the gallery, has the Multiverse, a major new solo exhibition Opera’s most popular productions. been made in collaboration with Dr. Bart of film, drawing, installation and a live The opera tells the story of the Parisian Hoogenboom, the nanobiophysicist who concert hall performance conceived from If you’re 15 - 25 and you’re courtesan Violetta Valéry, one of opera’s created the world’s first ‘real’ images of AL and AL’s epic sci-fi odyssey. Incidents into art, film and theatre greatest heroines (who Verdi based on the DNA. It tells the story of a space mission of Travel is split into three multiverse then HOME Young Creatives real life courtesan Marie Duplessis who across the universe and a quest to journeys the artists have made with is for you. died in 1847, aged just 23). In this revival, discover a ‘cure’ for death. groundbreaking scientists. Violetta is sung by Russian soprano Venera Curated by Sarah Perks and Bren O’Callaghan. Every year we’ll be putting Gimadieva in her debut with The Royal The first journey, Icarus at the Edge of Commissioned by the Alfred P Sloan on an amazing series of Opera, following her successful appearance Time, is a multimedia spectacle that brings foundation, BFI, Cornerhouse, HOME, as Violetta at the Glyndebourne Festival. Einstein’s theory of general relativity to free workshops, projects Royal Society, Southbank Centre, Wellcome visceral life – and takes you to the edge and commissioning Trust and World Science Festival. Presented Composed by Giuseppe Verdi. of a black hole. Based on the children’s opportunities, which in Manchester by HOME and Contact, novella by America’s most famous physicist, will be lead by industry part of Queer Contact Festival 2016. Tickets £15 - £12 (conc. available) Brian Greene, with a score by renowned professionals. composer Philip Glass, plus visuals by homemcr.org/al-al AL and AL, the North West premiere Sign up for more information at Do more the works with additional large-screen homemcr.org/HYC display. Register for the talk and receive Read more: Incidents of Travel in the £5 off the full-price of AL and AL’s new Multiverse is accompanied by a brand publication, on sale in the bookshop. new publication featuring Multiverse Sun 7 Feb, 14:00, FREE reports from Brian Greene and graphic Sat 5 Mar, 14:00, FREE, BSL Interpreted. novel writer Grant Morrison. Watch more: A series of out of this See more: Artists AL and AL with world films inspired by the exhibition curators Bren O’Callaghan and Sarah include Solaris (in 35mm), Alphaville, Perks offer an informal introduction to La Jetée, Ghost in the Shell and the exhibition, suitable for all. The tour The End of Evangelion. Find out begins in our Event Space (floor 2), more at homemcr.org/film. where they’ll share the stories of
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AL and AL INCIDENTS OF TRAVEL IN THE MULTIVERSE OPENING IN FEBRUARY
AL AND AL Andrew Anderson talks to Al Holmes The North West-based Al Holmes and Al Taylor (AKA AL and AL) and HOME and Al Taylor have already had one piece curator Bren O’Callaghan about black holes, commissioned by HOME – 2012’s The Creator, sci-fi and why their career is set to soar part of the Alan Turing centenary celebrations – into the stratosphere. and have recently collaborated with acclaimed What do you think of when you think of musician, Philip Glass and celebrated scientists sci-fi? If you’re anything like me it’s a 1950s such as Brian Greene. Now, with Incidents of version of the future where people travel in Travel, they’re tying together all the elements hover cars, shoot one another with lasers and of their work to date. live entirely off meals-in-a-pill. Or perhaps you’re ”It’s really an exploration of everything imagining something more like Star Trek, with we’ve been thinking about in the last few years,” humans travelling across the cosmos to meet says Taylor. aliens that look rather like us – only with crinkly ”It looks at how science is replacing myths foreheads and oddly shaped ears. Either way, and what that means for our culture.” That sounds while these visions of the future might be fun, like heavy stuff, but fortunately AL and AL have they’re not exactly mind expanding. And that’s broken their work down into three separate what sci-fi at its best should be: something stories; or, to put it in sci-fi parlance, they’ve that makes you look at the world in a new made a trilogy. It begins with Icarus at the Edge way and maybe, just maybe, causes your jaw of Time, a musical, multimedia performance that to drop. Something like Incidents of Travel in explores the origins and importance of black the Multiverse, HOME’s new exhibition from holes through a reimagining of the Icarus myth. filmmakers AL and AL. Instead of a wax-winged Athenian who flies too Named after the theory that we exist in close to the sun, however, here we have a boy multiple parallel universes, Incidents of Travel who explores the awesome power of black in the Multiverse is an enticing mix of film, holes in a spaceship. performance, art and installation. It embraces “The text is by the physicist Brian Greene – big ideas like black holes, tackles tricky subjects who wrote a children’s book with the same such as the origins of life and deals with the name – and it has a new score by Philip Glass,” destiny of mankind, dragging sci-fi out of the says O’Callaghan. “AL and AL have made a film 20th century and pushing it on to where it to go with it, using incredible CGI graphics. belongs: the future. The piece has played all over the world but While not yet household names, AL and AL’s never in the North West.” Icarus at the Edge reputation has been on the rise for some time of Time will be scored live by the BBC and, as curator Bren O’Callaghan puts it: “Their Philharmonic in an opening night event career is about to soar into the stratosphere.” at the Royal Northern College of Music.
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TEDxManchester National Theatre Live Save the date: SUN 14 FEB As You Like It THU 25 FEB, 18:45 TEDx events are a worldwide phenomenon; there are thousands of TEDx events in Shakespeare’s glorious comedy of love locations as diverse as San Francisco and change comes to the National Theatre LEFT: THE DEMIURGE, AL AND AL and Sydney. So we’re very excited to for the first time in over 30 years, with BELOW: THE CREATOR, AL AND AL announce that the next TEDxManchester Rosalie Craig (London Road, Macbeth takes place here at HOME in our main at MIF) as Rosalind. With her father the theatre space. TEDxManchester is a Duke banished and in exile, Rosalind and collision of people and ideas from across her cousin Celia leave their lives at court
FEBRUARY the arts, technology, media, science, behind them and journey into the Forest academia, industry and more. Expect a of Arden. There, released from convention, mix of engaging, provocative and inspiring Rosalind experiences the liberating rush of live speakers and TEDTalks videos. transformation. Disguising herself as a boy, she embraces a different way of living Register now and be first to know when and falls spectacularly in love. tickets go on sale: tedxmanchester.com. Tickets £15 - £13 (conc. available)
THEATRE Image: Reuben Paris HOME and Citizens Theatre, Glasgow present Endgame “Nothing is BY SAMUEL BECKETT funnier than THU 25 FEB - SAT 12 MAR unhappiness.” The second instalment is The Creator, the neighbours, what will artificial intelligence Languishing between life and death, aforementioned Alan Turing film that imagines become?” says Holmes. “With art we can bring the chair-bound tyrant Hamm (played by David Neilson) and his dutiful but the computer pioneer being visited by ‘thinking these stories to life, giving them an emotional resentful companion Clov (Chris Gascoyne) machines’ from the future as he lays on his element and creating a human connection – are irrevocably bound to one another. deathbed. The film will be installed inside the that’s incredibly important.” They pass their days in a filthy, bare room, HOME gallery along with props, storyboards ”But we don’t just illustrate the concepts caught in a loop of futile routines. and other materials taken from both this film that scientists tell us about,” interjects Taylor. Their endless and brutal verbal jousting and Icarus at the Edge of Time. match is punctured only by the nostalgic “We use them as a jumping-off point: we’re reminiscing of Hamm’s parents, reduced A third cinematic journey, The Demiurge, astronauts setting off to make discoveries in to living in rubbish bins. deals with the code of life itself: DNA. AL and AL a virtual world.” One discovery they’ve made have worked closely with nanobiophysicist is that the careers of artists and scientists A classic of modern theatre, Beckett’s Bart Hoogenboom, who created the world’s are more similar than they ever imagined. absurd and macabre play makes a grim first ‘real’ images of DNA, to make a CGI sci-fi “You’re thinking of ideas, trying to get them joke of life, and finds laughter in the spectacular that will receive its world premiere funded and you never know where your next darkness. Dominic Hill, Artistic Director at HOME in February. Starring Sophie Linfield, work is coming from,” says Taylor. And beyond of the Citizens Theatre, brings his talent The Demiurge fuses fact and fiction to explore the simple career similarities lies a shared for gripping and absorbing contemporary interpretations of classic texts to everything from creating a cure for death to passion for discovery. “Scientists love studying Beckett’s masterpiece. the theory that life first arrived on earth via nature, coming to understand the unknown. an asteroid impact (in other words, that we’re What we do isn’t so different – it is all based Written by Samuel Beckett. all aliens). “If you talk to AL and AL for long on a love of understanding. In fact, all three Directed by Dominic Hill. enough you’ll find your mind gets blown,” journeys in Incidents of Travel are really love says O’Callaghan. stories: they explore a love of art, a love for Tickets £29 - £10 (conc. available) Preview 25 Feb (£10) With the installation, film screening and one another and a love of exploration.” live performance, Incidents of Travel certainly These ideas are a perfect match for Accessible performances: checks all the boxes in HOME’s effort to create HOME’s first year of programming, which Caption Subtitled: Thu 3 Mar, 19:30 cross-platform work. But what makes this trilogy has had the overall title Transactions of Desire. Audio Described + Touch Tour: special is that it also crosses disciplines, bringing “Our opening exhibition, The Heart is Deceitful, Sat 5 Mar, 19:30 art and science together in a way that AL and dealt with desire in terms of heartbreak BSL Interpreted: Thu 10 Mar, 19:30 AL believe is essential. “Science asks the most and falling out of faith,” says O’Callaghan. important questions of our time: where is DNA “But this is about something that might be nano-technology taking us, how can we travel even bigger – our human desire for meaning 10,000 years across space to reach our nearest and understanding.”
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HOME & the Chinese Film Forum UK Screening in February
As Chinese New Year approaches, Dr. Andy Willis tells us more about HOME’s partnership with the Manchester-based Chinese Film Forum UK (CFFUK). Too few Chinese films, the sort that get screened at festivals around the world, are shown in the UK. So in response, in 2009 we at the CFFUK decided to do something about the situation. An informal group, we bring together film enthusiasts from Manchester and Salford’s universities, as well as from The Confucius Institute and other arts organisations such as the Centre for Contemporary Chinese Art. Right from the start, our aim has been to bring local audiences the best in Chinese cinema from greater China and the worldwide diaspora. The fact that many of these films have been overlooked by British distributors has not deterred us – since our very first screening (of the Taiwanese hit Cape No. 7 at Cornerhouse in 2009) and from animation to documentaries, martial arts films to serious social dramas, we have brought UK and European premieres from Taiwan, Hong Kong and mainland China to the city. Screenings have often included visits from directors, actors and producers, who always enjoy talking to Manchester audiences about their practice. And when they’ve not been available, we have instead arranged expert introductions or seminars around the issues raised by the films being shown. The annual highlight for the CFFUK is a special Chinese New Year screening. Last year, Ann Hui’s multi-award winning The Golden Era wowed audiences, many of whom asked why this magisterial film wasn’t more widely available in the UK – a fitting final CFFUK film at Cornerhouse. MADE Now working closely with HOME, we’re continuing to screen the films that other venues overlook. Look out for our autumn screening – our first at HOME – and the next Chinese New Year celebration in February 2016. It’s a collaboration that’s typical of HOME’s commitment to go that bit further than the standard film fare that’s found elsewhere. Keep checking the HOME website to Ann Hui’s The Golden Era find out what’s on, or visit cffuk.org for details of the depth and breadth of our ongoing work.
Dr. Andy Willis is Reader in Film Studies at the IN University of Salford and a founding member of the Chinese Film Forum UK. CHINA
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Met Opera Live Manon Lescaut SAT 5 MAR, 17:40
The Met stage ignites when soprano Kristine Opolais and tenor Jonas Kaufmann PERFORMED AT OLD GRANADA STUDIOS PERFORMED AT CAMPFIELD MARKET HALL The production features a new ‘resurrection’
march join forces in Puccini’s obsessive love story. march Quarantine presents, in co-production Streetwise Opera and The Sixteen finale that has been jointly written by Opolais sings the title role of the country with HOME, Contact and SICK! Festival co-production, in association with HOME Streetwise Opera’s performers and girl who transforms herself into a Parisian celebrated composer Sir James MacMillan. temptress, while Kaufmann is the dashing Summer. Autumn. The Passion Bleak images are followed by glimmers of hope in the The Passion’s joyous student who desperately woos her. FRI 25 & SAT 26 MAR closing chorus. Director Richard Eyre places the action Winter. Spring. WORLD PREMIERE in occupied France in a film noir setting. TUE 22 - SAT 26 MAR, Supported by Arts Council England “Desperate passion” is the phrase Puccini SAT 2 & SUN 3 APR A landmark site-specific production for In 1969, Loren McIntyre, a National and Macquarie Group Foundation. Complicite presents himself used to describe the opera that WORLD PREMIERE Easter 2016. In the historical surrounds Geographic photographer, found himself confirmed his position as the preeminent of Campfield Market, an abridged version lost among the people of the remote Javari Tickets £22 - £15 Italian opera composer of his day. An extraordinary quartet of work about of Bach’s iconic oratorio St Matthew The Encounter Valley, Brazil. It was an encounter that was A limited number of free access tickets Met Principal Conductor Fabio Luisi our relationship with time, Quarantine’s Passion is brought to life as an immersive WED 16 - SAT 19 MAR to change his life, bringing the limits of are available for people who have leads the stirring score. hugely ambitious project is a piece of fully-staged opera. human consciousness into startling focus. mass portraiture, spanning the human experienced homelessness. In this solo performance, Simon McBurney Composed by Giacomo Puccini. Production lifecycle and made with ‘real people’ in This contemporary promenade performance traces McIntyre’s journey into the depths E-mail [email protected] a gift of Helen and Bengt Agerup and place of actors. In Summer. Autumn. guides audience members around of the Amazon rainforest, using binaural or call 020 7730 9551 for more info. Rolex. Co-production of the Metropolitan Winter. Spring., each work stands alone, Manchester’s much-loved Victorian hall. technology (3D audio) to build an intimate Opera and the Baden-Baden Festival. distinct in form, or can be seen as an The vibrant cast comprises both and shifting world of sound. This is a promenade production where epic, day-long marathon event… The Sixteen and performers who the audience will be required to walk Tickets £18.50 - £14 (conc. available) have experienced homelessness from Complicite’s recent work includes Lionboy, and stand throughout all or part Quarantine, HOME’s Associate Company, Streetwise Opera Manchester. The Master and Margarita, Shun-kin is a unique voice in British theatre – of the performance. and A Disappearing Number. LIVE THEATRE BROADCAST internationally acclaimed for experiments Following the last two days of Jesus’s life, with everyday life. The Passion’s confrontational narrative is Directed and performed by Simon McBurney. contrasted by the beauty and exultation Supported by Arts Council England, of its score. Penny Woolcock’s direction Inspired by the novel Amazon Beaming “Awe-inspiring.” The Wellcome Trust and sees multiple performers playing the by Petru Popescu. The Granada Foundation. leading role as a poignant reminder of The Times (praise for Streetwise Jesus’s vulnerability and universality. Opera’s previous work) A Complicite co-production with the Tickets £14 - £5 (individual shows), Edinburgh International Festival, Royal Opera House Live with Bryn Terfel £25 - £15 (full quartet) “With this the Barbican, London, Onassis Cultural Centre – Athens, Schaubühne Berlin, Boris Godunov head-turning, Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne and Warwick MON 21 MAR, 19:00 Arts Centre. Supported by Sennheiser spellbinding and The Wellcome Trust. Richard Jones and Antonio Pappano renew their creative collaboration with this new show, hearing Tickets £29 - £23 (conc. available) production of Musorgsky’s masterpiece, here seen in its compact, seven scene- is believing.” Accessible performances: long 1869 version. The originality of the Caption Subtitled: Thu 17 Mar, 19:30 composer’s vision of Pushkin’s play about The DAILY Telegraph BSL Interpreted: Sat 19 Mar, 19:30 Tsar Boris Godunov was too much for the management of the Imperial Theatres, Age guidance 12+ who demanded changes that were Visit our first floor café to enjoy your “Sensational.” incorporated in the second version of the favourite pizzas, hearty brunches and Headphones will be worn by the opera, after which Boris finally had its leisurely Sunday roasts, alongside our VAriety audience during the performance. EAT. premiere in 1874. Keenly awaited will be new seasonal specials created using Bryn Terfel’s assumption of the title role, the finest local produce. one of the most complex characters in opera, while John Graham-Hall appears DRINK. Freshly-baked cakes and pastries, as the crafty Prince Shuisky and John great coffee supplied by local Tomlinson as the vagabond monk Varlaam. expert roasters ManCoCo, delicious cocktails and a specially selected Composed by Modest Musorgsky. RELAX. list of regionally sourced beers and wines make our ground floor bar the Tickets £15 - £12 (conc. available) ideal spot to relax or spend time with friends before you head into the theatre, galleries or cinema.
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We are located on Tony By Metrolink Wilson Place, First Street, Deansgate-Castlefield is just off Whitworth Street West, the nearest Metrolink stop, roughly opposite the Hacienda which is less than five minutes’ apartments and a short walk walk from HOME. Check the from Oxford Road and the Metrolink website for times Deansgate-Castlefield and updates. Metrolink is FOUNDING Supporters Metrolink stop. currently working on improving and expanding its routes, HOME for information on changes 2 Tony Wilson Place to services please visit Manchester transformationinformation.co.uk. M15 4FN By train By bike The nearest rail stations are Bike racks are available next Deansgate and Oxford Road, OFFICIAL TECHNOLOGY PARTNER CAPITAL PROJECT SUPPORTERS to HOME and the INNSIDE which are both five minutes’ Equity by Meliá hotel. There are 20 walk from HOME. If you arrive Charitable racks available. at Piccadilly or Victoria, Trust it’s a 20-minute walk. By bus OPENING SPONSORS Buses 105 and 256 from By car Piccadilly Gardens stop on The nearest car park is Medlock Street. Alternatively, Q-Park at First Street you can use the Metroshuttles, (next door to HOME). free buses that link main rail HOME visitors receive a stations, car parks, shopping 20% discount on parking areas and businesses in the (validate your ticket or city centre. Metroshuttle buses show a receipt from our EXHIBITION PARTNER project Supporters run from Piccadilly, Salford cafe and bar) in the venue. Central, Victoria, Oxford Road and Deansgate rail stations. There are three circular routes covering the city centre (the green and purple routes stop near HOME).
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Danny Boyle, speaking at the opening of Home
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