Theatre at HOME Feb 2019 – OCT 2019
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Theatre at HOME Feb 2019 – OCT 2019 Photo Credit: Wise Children, Steve Tanner home mcr. box office home org 0161 200 1500 WELCOME TO HOME See More HOME first opened its doors in May 2015, and it is humbling to reflect on what’s been achieved in that time. Save We’ve had over 2.5m visits, presented over 1,000 theatre performances, 20,000 cinema screenings and 40 exhibitions; and worked with over 60,000 More! participants, especially young people, through our engagement programmes. Planning on seeing more than one Whilst we’re incredibly proud of our achievements, we refuse to rest on show at HOME this year? Take our laurels. We want to share more stories, hear new voices, embrace our advantage of our Theatre Pass distinctive environment and better reflect the city and the world we live in options and theatre ticket savers. today. Theatre 1 Pass This 2019 season includes friends old and new as part of a breathtaking international programme. Highlights include Wise Children’s first visit to the Book for all of these main-house North West; the modern classic One Night in Miami; and the welcome return shows for just £100. Shows include: of our partners Headlong, 1927 and Hofesh Schecter. Wise Children ......................................p4 1927 presents Box of Tricks presents HOME exists for new art and new artists. Across the next year, we’re Kingdom ................................................p8 heading in a fresh creative direction – we want to reach more people, Richard III ............................................p10 The Animals and SparkPlug develop more ground-breaking ideas and support a new generation of WED 13 – SAT 23 FEB Grand Finale ......................................p12 artists and theatre-makers. Our journey starts with HOME World Premiere Children took to A new play by David Judge productions from Javaad Alipoor, Scottee and Liz Richardson. And this is just Nassim .................................................p14 the beginning… One Night in Miami .........................p15 the Streets Directed by Hannah Tyrrell-Pinder WED 6 – SAT 16 FEB Finally, I’ve come to realise that HOME has most impact when the work on Scottee’s Class ..................................p18 Directed & Written by Suzanne Andrade Manchester, 1983. Dave loves Rod Stewart, Joanne and our stages connects with the programme in our cinemas and galleries. This his Ford Capri. He’s all set for a new start. Only Joanne’s season we’ve placed landmark theatre events at the heart of building-wide Theatre 2 Pass Film, Animation and Design by Paul Barritt about to have someone else’s baby. Is Dave ready to celebrations: bringing together artists and communities from our region and Book for all of these Theatre 2 become a Dad even though he’s not the father? around the world. !Viva! – our festival of work from the Spanish-speaking Music by Lillian Henley productions for just £70. Shows world – has added resonance this year as we face such uncertain times in A punchy and poetic exploration of family, race, identity include: Seamlessly synchronising live music, performance and Europe. I’m delighted that Catalan company Señor Serrano are bringing their and love, SparkPlug is the story of a white man who storytelling with stunning films and animation, the HOME commissioned show Kingdom to be part of this celebration. Kourtney Kardashian ........................p5 becomes the adoptive father, mother and best friend of multiple award-winning company behind Golem and a mixed-race child, David. With over 30 different events, we sincerely hope you will join us in 2019. Scottee’s Fat Blokes ..........................p6 HOME favourites 1927 are back with another wickedly Funeral Director ..................................p7 twisted international hit tale. Like a giant novel burst Inspired by autobiographical events and exploring the Dave Moutrey, Director and CEO of HOME into life, 1927 invite you on a theatrical journey of One ........................................................p11 playwright’s background as an actor and spoken word startling originality. artist, SparkPlug is a lyrical and energetic monologue dressed. ...............................................p13 that examines what family means in today’s society. Swim .....................................................p16 homemcr.org/animals-and-children Box of Tricks is a Manchester-based theatre company 1927 are an Associate Company of HOME It’s True, It’s True, It’s True .............. p17 that champions the next generation of playwrights, The Rich Kids of Tehran .................p19 producing top quality new plays on local and national Theatre 1 stages. David Judge was a finalist for the Alfred Fagon Mix and match Tickets £18 - £20 (conc. available) Award 2015. Or why not mix and match? Book Recommended 14+ homemcr.org/sparkplug for any three shows* and get 20% off your total ticket price. Wed 6 – Sat 16 Feb, 19:30 Sat 9 & Sat 16 Feb, 14:00 “A theatre company to watch” For more information visit – The Stage homemcr.org/ticket-saver Accessible Performances Theatre 2 Caption Subtitled performance Wed 13 Feb, 19:30 Tickets £12.50 (£5 - £10.50 conc.) *All ticket offers exclude special TOUCH Audio Described Touch Tour TOUR events, Mark Thomas, Jinkx Thu 14 Feb, 18:30 Wed 13 - Sat 23 Feb, 19:45 Monsoon and Drag Becomes Her. Audio Described performance Parent & baby performance, Tue 19 Feb, 11:00 Thu 14 Feb, 19:30 Relaxed performance, Fri 22 Feb, 11:00 2 3 An Old Vic and Wise Children production Mark Co-produced by the Belgrade Theatre Coventry, Oxford Playhouse Thomas and York Theatre Royal Check Up: Our NHS @ 70 Wise FRI 8 & SAT 9 MAR, 20:00 Children TUE 26 FEB – SAT 2 MAR Written by Angela Carter Mark Thomas is 54, the NHS is 70, Adapted and Directed by UK national average life expectancy Emma Rice is 84. If Mark makes it to 84 the NHS will be 100, what will they both look like? Based on a series It’s 23 April, Shakespeare’s birthday. of interviews with leading experts “Thomas is a in and on the NHS and residencies In Brixton, Nora and Dora Chance terrific performer and in hospitals and surgeries, Thomas raconteur… funny, raw – twin chorus girls born and bred working with director Nicolas Kent south of the river – are celebrating uses his own demise to explore the and angry” their 70th birthday. Over the river in state we’re in. What’s going right, – The Guardian Chelsea, their father and greatest what’s going wrong and how does it The Independent actor of his generation, Melchior get better? Theatre 1 Hazard, turns 100 on the same day. The Telegraph As does his twin brother Peregrine. Supported by the Wellcome Trust. Tickets £16 If, in fact, he’s still alive. And if, in (£12 conc. including NHS Staff) homemcr.org/mark-thomas-nhs The Stage truth, Melchior is their real father Recommended 14+ after all… Time Out A big, bawdy tangle of theatrical joy and heartbreak, Wise Children Image credit: Steve Tanner Sleepwalk Collective presents is a celebration of show business, family, forgiveness and hope. Expect Kourtney show girls and Shakespeare, sex and scandal, music, mischief and “I cannot imagine anyone who loves theatre not Kardashian mistaken identity – and butterflies being bowled over by this life-enhancing, brilliantly THU 7 – SAT 9 MAR, 19:30 by the thousand. uninhibited, all-singing and dancing adaptation… Kourtney Kardashian is a love/hate Joyous.” – The Observer Emma Rice (Romantics Anonymous; letter to outrageous luxury and Tristan & Yseult) brings her unique, artistic genius. With an orchestra exuberantly impish vision to Angela of laptops, a multispeaker sound system chorus and performers Carter’s great last novel, Wise “Spectacular… An inventive, smart and saucy with second voices carried on Children, launching her new theatre production. [Emma] Rice’s re-launch is a splashy company of the same name. their bodies, Kourtney Kardashian one, celebrating the sheer razzle-dazzle of a life in plays around with the rules and homemcr.org/wise-children theatre.” – The Guardian conventions of classical opera. “A bold and beautiful new theatre for Sleepwalk Collective is an award a brave new world” Theatre 1 Accessible Performances winning live art and experimental theatre company creating fragile, Caption Subtitled performance – Total Theatre Magazine Tickets £10 - £29 nocturnal performances between Thu 28 Feb, 19:30 (conc. from £5) the UK and Spain. Kourtney (on Domestica, 2016) Recommended 14+ TOUCH Audio Described Touch Tour Kardashian is the final part of an TOUR Fri 1 Mar, 18:30 accidental trilogy of performances Tue 26 Feb – Sat 2 Mar, 19:30 Audio Described performance about high art and celebrity and our Theatre 2 Thu 28 Feb & Sat 2 Mar, 14:00 Fri 1 Mar, 19:30 increasingly tenuous grip on reality Running time 2hr 10 mins in the 21st century. Tickets £12.50 BSL Interpreted performance excluding interval (£5 - £10.50 conc.) Sat 2 Mar, 14:00 homemcr.org/Kourtney-Kardashian 4 5 HOME and the Southbank Centre English Touring Theatre present “I just thought it would be a secret Papatango Theatre’s I’d have to die with. And now – I Scottee: think it’ll be what kills me.” Guardian The Funeral Life as the director of a Muslim Fat Blokes funeral parlour isn’t always easy, TUE 19 – SAT 23 MAR Director but Ayesha has things pretty WED 27 – SAT 30 MAR sorted. She and Zeyd share Following May’s sell- The Stage By Iman Qureshi everything: a marriage, a business, out run, Fat Blokes a future. returns to HOME this March. Fat Blokes is Until Tom walks in to organise his a sort of dance show about flab, Elephant boyfriend’s funeral. A snap moral double chins and the men they are decision, informed by the values attached to – made by artist and Theatre 2 of their community and their faith, forward facing fatso, Scottee.