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.) TOUCH Audio Described Touch Tour *All ticket offers exclude special 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 TOUR Kardashian is the final part of an 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. has profound consequences. Gay Times Tickets £12.50 Fat Blokes uncovers why fat men (£5 - £10.50 conc.) Forced to confront a secret she has are never sexy but are always hidden even from herself, Ayesha funny, always the ‘before’ but never Wed 27 – Sat 30 Mar, 19:45 must decide who she is – no the ‘after’ shot. British Theatre matter the cost. Made in collaboration with Lea Winner of the 2018 Papatango Accessible Performances “Makes a humane point Anderson and four fat blokes New Writing Prize from 1,384 who’ve never done this sort of thing Caption Subtitled performance entries, The Funeral Director is without lapsing into before. Fri 29 Mar, 19:45 an incisive and heartfelt story of preachiness... Examines TOUCH Audio Described Touch Tour sexuality, gender and religion in Islamic attitudes to same- TOUR This is fat rebellion. Sat 30 Mar, 18:45 21st century Britain. sex relationships with Scottee is a HOME Associate Audio Described performance homemcr.org/the-funeral-director grace and dignity.” Artist. Find out more about Sat 30 Mar, 19:45 – The Guardian Scottee’s brand new production Class on p18. Soho Theatre & Tim Whitehead “Energetic, homemcr.org/fat-blokes Management present funny and Jinkx filthy as f**k EVENT — this pair Post-show discussion ‘Death Monsoon are perfect!” and Diabetes’ with the LGBT+ – Gay Times Foundataion, Thu 21 Mar & Major Scales: The Ginger Snapped

THU 28 – SAT 30 MAR

Theatre 2 It’s therapy you can dance to! In order to avoid a breakdown of Tickets £12.50 diva proportions Major must act as Theatre 1 Following last year’s total sell-out both pianist and therapist to the (£5 - £10.50 conc.) tour, RuPaul’s Drag Race favourite Recommended 18+ Tickets £25 (£23 conc.) Manic Miss Monsoon. Music and Jinkx Monsoon and lyrical genius mental health collide in this witty, Recommended 16+ Major Scales return to showcase Tue 19 – Sat 23 Mar, 19:45 biting look at the dark side of Drag new music from their upcoming fame. Sat 23 Mar, 14:15 Thu 28 – Sat 30 Mar, 20:00 album… however, Jinkx worries that Running time 1hr 5 mins Running time approx. 80 mins her best years are behind her. homemcr.org/jinkx-monsoon 6 7 CYA@HOME FRI 12 & SAT 13 APR

Following May’s acclaimed production A Generation Rising (pictured), which courageously shared personal stories to inspire a hopeful vision for our future, CYA@ HOME are back. CAN Young Artists (CYA@HOME) are a company of performers aged 13-18 formed through a partnership project between Community Arts North West (CAN) and HOME. This April, CYA will take to the stage again with their fourth production, following the success of A Generation Rising, What’s Done is Done, and The Snow Dragons performed as part of National Theatre Connections Festival 2017. Stay tuned for further details on this production.

Señor Serrano present Theatre 2 Kingdom TUE 9 – SAT 13 APR Part of ¡Viva! Spanish & Latin American Festival 2019 National Returning to ¡Viva! following Birdie in 2016, Señor Serrano are back with their unique, award- Theatre winning cinematic style of performance in their latest show, Kingdom. Connections Kingdom is an irreverent cocktail mixing bananas, consumerism, virile choreographies, commercials, punk rock, King Kong, supermarkets, growth, confusion, expansion, multinationals, shortages, coups d’état, bestiality, trap music and 2019 very macho men in an endless party. The world is going to shit, let’s celebrate. TUE 12 MAR & TUE 23 – SAT 27 APR Using the character King Kong and footage from the original and remakes, Kingdom brings together the history of capitalism and bananas in a way that has never been told before. Greater Manchester’s youth homemcr.org/kingdom theatres, schools and colleges perform here at HOME in the GREC 2018 Festival de Barcelona / FOG Triennale Milano National Theatre’s Connections Performing Arts / CSS Teatro Stabile di Innovazione del festival, a celebration of young Friuli – Venezia Giulia / Teatro Stabile del Veneto – Teatro people, theatre-making and the Nazionale / HOME Manchester / Teatros del Canal / importance of access to the arts. Teatre Lliure / Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles / Susan Miller and Byron Grote, Groningen Grand Theatre / Romaeuropa Festival. For its 25th edition, ¡Viva! returns for our Each year the National Theatre Hays Travel Foundation, Faithorn Theatre 1 annual celebration of Spanish and Latin commissions ten new plays for Farrell Timms and supporters of American culture. We’ll bring you a specially young people to perform, bringing the Connections Appeal. selected programme of the most exciting together some of the most exciting Participating groups and writers with the theatre makers of Theatre 1 film and theatre from across the Spanish- performance schedule to be speaking world, plus all the usual top- tomorrow. announced soon. Tickets £15 (conc. from £5) notch Q&As, talks and workshops. The full Connections is supported by Tue 9 – Sat 13 Apr, 19:30 programme will be announced in early 2019. Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation, Jacqueline and Richard Worswick, 8 9 Headlong, Alexandra Palace and “What do I fear? Myself?” Tom Mothersdale (The Glass Soho Theatre & Tim Whitehead Bristol Old Vic Menagerie; Cleansed; John) returns Management present After decades of civil war, the with Royal and Derngate, to Headlong to play Shakespeare’s nation hangs in the balance. Enter iconic villain, in a revelatory new Northampton and Oxford Playhouse Richard, Duke of Gloucester, to Peaches present production directed by Headlong change the course of history. Associate Artist John Haidar. Christ’s Richard III Richard was not born to be a king, Headlong return to HOME following Drag Becomes but he’s set his sights on the crown. TUE 30 APR – SAT 4 MAY People, Places and Things in 2017. So begins his campaign of deceit, HER By William Shakespeare manipulation and violence – and homemcr.org/Richard-third WED 8 – SAT 11 MAY Directed by John Haidar he’s killing it. Yet, behind his ambition lies a murderous desire to be loved. Peaches Christ, Jinkx Monsoon, BenDeLaCreme and Major Scales star in a drag parody of the ghoulishly entertaining A-list campfest Death Becomes Her. “Those fearsome Witness the deliciously dark showbiz satire, with the queens in the roles innovators Headlong” they were born to play: undead Beverly Hills rivals Madeleine Ashton Peaches Christ as Lisle Von Rhuman, Theatre 1 – The Telegraph and Helen Sharp, originally made Jinx Monsoon as Madeleine Ashton, EVENT famous by Oscar-winning leading Bendelacreme as Helen Sharp and Tickets £33 - £35 (conc. £31 - £33) Major Scales as Earnest. Post-Show Q&A, Wed 1 May, ladies Goldie Hawn and Meryl Recommended 16+ 19:30 Streep. The world’s “oldest young homemcr.org/peaches-christ drag queens” hit Manchester to defy Meet and Greet Package natural law before your very eyes. available £48/£50.

Theatre 1 Wed 8 – Sat 11 May, 20:00 Sat 11 May, 14:00 Tickets £10 - £24 (conc. from £5) Running time approx. 90 mins Recommended 12+

Tue 30 Apr – Sat 4 May, 19:30 Bertrand Lesca & Nasi Voutsas WINNER Thu 2 & Sat 4 May, 14:00 presents Total Theatre Award for Innovation, One Experimentation & Accessible Performances WED 8 – FRI 10 MAY Playing with BSL Interpreted performance Form 2017 Thu 2 May, 19:30 Bert & Nasi return to HOME Audio Described Touch Tour TOUCH following Eurohouse and Palmyra WINNER TOUR Fri 3 May, 18:30 (Orbit Festival 2017). The final Stockholm Fringe Audio Described performance piece in this loose trilogy of work, Fri 3 May, 19:30 One looks at the left through the Festival 2017 Caption Subtitled performance prism of the right, considering the Grand Prix Sat 4 May, 14:00 polarization of political debate and the rise of populism across nations. “A charismatic duo” Amid the ruins of unresolved – A Younger Theatre conflict, Bert and Nasi explore whether we can still come together ““It’s rare to see on common ground, however Theatre 2 unsteady. emerging artists with such a strong Tickets £12.50 (£5 - £10.50 conc.) homemcr.org/one signature style” Photo credit: Richard Davenport – What’s On Stage Wed 8 – Fri 10 May, 19:45 10 11 Hofesh Shechter Company presents This Egg presents Grand Made in collaboration with Made My Wardrobe dressed Finale TUE 4 – SAT 8 JUN WED 22 – SAT 25 MAY This Egg return to Manchester following last June’s BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND Me and My Bee with their universally praised, award- winning Edinburgh Fringe Festival stand-out dressed. Returning to HOME following a sell-out run in January 2018, Grand A costume maker, a theatre maker, a singer and a Finale is back. dancer. All friends since school, telling a true story. Internationally-celebrated After being stripped at gun point, Lydia set out to choreographer Hofesh Shechter’s redress herself with a new healing set of armour. Grand Finale is a spectacularly bold Lydia now only wears clothes she has made. and ambitious piece featuring ten dancers and six musicians. dressed is about the power clothes have to define us, to liberate us, to hide us and to embellish us. It is Grand Finale is at once comic, bleak about making something beautiful out of something and beautiful, evoking a world at dark and traumatic. Combining choreography, live odds with itself, full of anarchic sewing, comedy and original music, it is a celebration energy and violent comedy. Filtering of female performance and friendship. this irrepressible spirit, Shechter creates a vision of a world in homemcr.org/dressed freefall: part gig, part dance, part theatre and wholly original. “A show that fashions something homemcr.org/grand-finale rich, brocaded and gossamer beautiful out of dark shadows.” – The Independent “Just gorgeous.” – WhatsOnStage “Sulphurous, “Beautiful, searching, painful… with visceral and joy, compassion and a rich flow of surprisingly tender.” energy” – The Scotsman – The Stage Fringe First Award 2018 “The choreographer New Diorama Theatre & Underbelly’s squares up to our UNTAPPED Award 2018 political anxieties – Nominated for Emerging Company and his own demons Total Theatre Award 2018 – with grace and the defiant spirit of the band who played on Theatre 2 the Titanic.” – The Tickets £12.50 Guardian (£5 - £10.50 conc.) Recommended 16+ Accessible Performances “Heart- Theatre 1 TOUCH Audio Described Touch Tour stopping… Shechter’s Tue 4 – Sat 8 Jun, 19:45 TOUR Tickets £10 - £21 Fri 7 Jun, 18:45 Grand Finale has (conc. from £5) Running time approx. 1hr Audio Described performance arrived with a bang.” Recommended 14+ Trigger warning: This show explores Fri 7 Jun, 19:45 – Financial Times themes of rape and sexual assault Wed 22 – Sat 25 May, 19:30 which some audience members BSL Interpreted performance Running time 1hr 45min may find distressing. Sat 8 Jun, 19:45 12 13 A Bush Theatre and Nassim Soleimanpour production Nassim TUE 18 – THU 20 JUN Written by Nassim Soleimanpour

Part of HOME’s Refugee Week 2019 Dear performer. I want to show you something. Did you know, in Farsi my name is written like this: ‘.ROUPNAMIELOS MISSAN si eman yM’ From Iranian playwright Nassim Soleimanpour comes an audacious WINNER - FRINGE FIRST AWARD 2017 new theatrical experiment. Each night a different performer joins “Emotionally charged theatrical One Night in Miami… is produced by special arrangement with ABKCO the playwright on stage, while the experiment.” – The Stage script waits unseen in a sealed Nottingham Playhouse Theatre Company presents box… “As he heightens the audience’s sense Praise for the Donmar’s Touchingly autobiographical yet of complicity in his art, Soleimanpour makes a One Night in Miami… production: powerfully universal, Nassim is a quietly persuasive case for theatre’s special TUE 2 – FRI 5 JUL striking theatrical demonstration power to foster empathy.” – London Evening By Kemp Powers of how language can both divide Standard Starring Olivier Award-winning Matt Henry (Kinky Boots, “A rich and fascinating play” and unite us. The Voice UK finalist) as Sam Cooke – The Independent “An unusually vivid celebration of theatre’s Nassim follows Soleimanpour’s Before they were icons they were friends globally acclaimed White Rabbit liveness.” – The Guardian Red Rabbit, which has been 25 February 1964: Cassius Clay is crowned the new translated into over 25 different heavyweight champion of the world and celebrates with “packs one hell of a punch” languages and performed over three of his closest friends – activist Malcolm X, American – The Times 1,000 times by names including Theatre 1 football icon Jim Brown and soul star Sam Cooke – in a downtown Miami motel room. Stephen Fry, Ken Loach and Tickets £16 - £18 Whoopi Goldberg. (conc. from £5) That much we know is true. What follows is an imagined “Powers has lit on a crucible homemcr.org/nassim Recommended 12+ account of a fabled real-life event. moment” Tue 18 – Thu 20 Jun, 19:30 Kemp Powers’ tough talking, in-your-face drama – The Observer Running time 1hr 10 mins speculates on what might have happened in that room that night. Over music, whiskey and two tubs of vanilla ice cream, the men wrangle with the change that’s gonna Incoming Festival is a celebration presented at New Diorama Theatre, come. What will emerge are four legends that would – The Telegraph Incoming of the best emerging theatre London and at Tobacco Factory define an era. companies from the UK and beyond, Theatres, Bristol. Expect explosive Festival 2019 and returns to HOME to invite new work from the UK’s most Directed by Matthew Xia (previously Manchester Royal MON 24 – SUN 30 JUN audiences to try something new exciting theatre companies. Exchange Associate Artistic Director and director of Wish for just a fiver. 2019’s festival has List and Frankenstein), One Night in Miami... is a play Full schedule to be announced soon. about prejudice and brotherhood, and asks us: on which been chosen from a panel including Theatre 1 Lyn Gardner, Fergus Morgan (The homemcr.org/incoming-2019 side of the fence do we stand when hard choices need to Stage), the editorial team of Exeunt be made? Tickets £10 - £23 (conc. from £5) Magazine and Critics of Colour One Night in Miami... received its theatrical stage Recommended 12+ alongside the festival co-directors. premiere in the UK at the Donmar Warehouse on Tuesday As well as playing at HOME, 11 October 2016. Incoming Festival will also be Tue 2 – Fri 5 Jul, 19:30 homemcr.org/one-night Thu 4 Jul, 14:00 14 15 Breach Theatre It’s True, “It might be set in 17th-century Italy, but the It’s True, consistently exciting Breach Theatre’s new show feels uneasily current.” It’s True – The Financial Times TUE 8 – SAT 12 OCT “A gripping court drama... it is as if she is Fringe First and Total Theatre roaring down the ages.” Award-winning Breach (Tank, The – The Guardian Beanfield) restage the 1612 trial of Agostino Tassi for the rape of baroque painter Artemisia “There is little to match this latest piece from Gentileschi. the award-winning Breach Theatre.” Based on surviving court transcripts, – The Times this new play dramatises the seven- month trial that gripped Renaissance Scotsman Fringe First Award 2018 Rome, and asks how much has changed in the last four centuries. The Stage Award for Acting Excellence 2018 Blending myth, history and contemporary commentary, this is the story behind the woman who took revenge through her art to become one of the most successful painters of her generation. Originally commissioned by New Diorama Theatre. WORLD PREMIERE Praise for Liz homemcr.org/its-true Liz Richardson, Josie Dale-Jones & Sam Ward in association with HOME Richardson’s Gutted SWIM TUE 9 – SAT 13 JUL ‘Inspired’ Thousands of people have turned to immersing themselves in cold water – Broadway Baby and say they’ve never felt more alive. Join Liz, Josie and Sam as they explore how water, particularly wild swimming, aids us through grief and illness, telling the stories of those who seek the comfort of water. ‘Funny, important and A collaboration between Liz Richardson (Gutted, HOME’s Mothers Who moving’ Make), Sam Ward from YESYESNONO, one of the Guardian’s top five – The Stage young theatre companies, and Josie Dale-Jones from This Egg (Me & My Bee & dressed). With music from Royal Northern College of Music’s composer Carmel Smickersgill and choreography from Briony O’Callaghan (David Glass Theatre 2 Theatre 2 Ensemble). Tickets £12.50 Tickets £12.50 homemcr.org/swim (£5 - £10.50 conc.) (£5 - £10.50 conc.) Recommended 14+ Recommended 14+

Tue 9 – Sat 13 Jul, 19:45 Tue 8 – Sat 12 Oct, 19:45 Thu 11 & Sat 13 Jul, 14:15 Sat 12 Oct, 14:00 Running Time 60 mins Photo credit: Guy J Sanders 16 17 WORLD PREMIERE Previous reviews include: Scottee Commissioned by HOME Class “an act of theatrical consciousness-raising” WED 23 – SAT 26 OCT – The Guardian on Fat Blokes

Scottee grew up around mould, mice and clothes off the market. “Brave, heartfelt and full of integrity.” After a chance meeting with some – The Scotsman on The Worst of Scottee posh kids, his Mum teaching him to talk properly on the phone and “Deeply moving and strikingly intelligent successfully persuading his parents to take him off free school meals, theatre-making” Scottee knew he didn’t want to be – Exeunt on Putting Words in Your Mouth common. Class is a show about what it is to be embarrassed of who you are “Scottee’s work often comes in camouflage. and pretending to be posher than Its flippancy conceals its fight. It’s how he you are. reaches people.” This is a show for the middle class – The Guardian on Bravado of England. Scottee is a HOME Associate Artist. Find out more about Scottee’s current production Fat Blokes on p6. WORLD PREMIERE homemcr.org/scottee-class Northern Lines & HOME presents “Javaad Alipoor is a genial and The Rich Kids thoughtful young performer” of Tehran – The Scotsman on Javaad WED 23 OCT – SAT 2 NOV Alipoor’s The Believers Are But Written & Directed by Javaad Alipoor Brothers

In 2015 Robert Mugabe’s Rich Kids of Tehran is a Theatre 1 son Chatunga filmed himself play about entitlement and Tickets £14 - £16 pouring a £200 bottle of consumption, about how digital (£5 - £12 conc.) champagne over the £45,000 technology is complicit in social watch his father bought him, apartheid and gentrification Wed 23 – Sat 26 Oct tagging it on Instagram as and the human problem of what #daddyrunsthewholecountry. The successful and brutal people do gap between the rich and poor is with their coddled and useless Theatre 2 getting bigger and bigger around children. It’s the sequel to the the world. Social media feeds and award winning, Believers Are but Tickets £12.50 accelerates this ever-widening Brothers, and the second part of a (£5 - £10.50 conc.) divide. In the global south we see trilogy of plays about how digital Recommended 14+ the children of elites and post- technology, resentment and colonial dictatorships, flashing fracturing identity are changing cash, dollar signs, Bollinger the world. Wed 23 Oct – Sat 2 Nov, 19:45 and infinity pool holidays while Sat 26 Oct, Thu 31 Oct people suffer under sanctions and homemcr.org/rich-kids & Sat 2 Nov, 14:15 dictatorships. 18 19 There are many ways you can get further Soho Theatre in association with Curtis Brown presents involved in our theatre programme. Throughout the year there are series of on-going Jessie Cave events, skills workshops, courses and artist THU 14 – SAT 16 MAR, 20:00 opportunities that mean you can get closer Jessie Cave brings her new play sunrise to to our work, develop your own talents and tell HOME after a sell-out run at Soho Theatre your own story. Dating again after a complex break up, Jessie is trying to get her personal life in order – before her kids wake up. Cave takes her critically acclaimed blend of confessional comedy and DIY Tony Walsh performance art out on tour. SAT 16 MAR, 19:30 homemcr.org/Jessie-cave “Tony Walsh stunned millions of people” (Huffington Post) with his now iconic poem This Is The Place in the aftermath of the Manchester Attack. Theatre 2 JMK Director’s Tickets £14 An evening with Tony Walsh is a rip-roaring rock and Group (£12 conc.) roller-coaster ride from a profoundly inspiring artist

GET INVOLVED We are working with the JMK Trust to offer early Recommended 16+ at the very top of his game. Tony will perform two sets of material including brand new and little heard career directors free access to workshop and development opportunities as well as a chance to Fri 15 Mar, 11am – poems from his eagerly awaited new collection, meet regularly with a group of peers to network Parent and Baby WORK I LIFE | BALANCE alongside some much-loved audience favourites. Who knows, he might just and share ideas. The JMK Trust was founded in Special Events Special Performance memory of director James Menzies-Kitchin. Running time: throw in a classic Manchester poem or two for good measure. 60 minutes Email [email protected] for info. Theatre 1 Tickets £12

HOME Young Creatives If you’re 15-25 and into art, film or theatre then why not get involved in this programme of free workshops, Matt Haig The Tiger Lillies projects and commissioning opportunities that are all MON 15 APR, 19:30 TUE 11 JUN, 20:00 led by creative professionals? Mothers Who The poignant and natural follow up to Matt Haig’s, A return for The Tiger Lillies to HOME following A The programme includes: Reasons To Stay Alive, Notes on a Nervous Planet Cold Night In Soho & Corrido de la Sangre, take a Make is a personal and vital look at how to feel happy, trip into The Devil’s Fairground where temptation One-off events Mothers Who Make is a growing national network human and whole in the twenty-first century. An and sin await as the Grammy nominated godfathers Creative Careers workshops aimed at supporting mothers who are artists, evening of positive and insightful discussion about of alternative cabaret perform from their new album. working in any discipline and at any stage of their the modern world and his advice on how best to HOME’s BFI Film Academy homemcr.org/devils-playground careers. Every kind of maker welcome, and every navigate it. HOME Young Film Programmers events kind of mother. Please feel free to bring along your Young Identity (for writers, poets and children, of any age, whether they are inside you, Theatre 1 spoken word artists) beside you or running round the room! Theatre 1 Tickets £20 (£18 conc.) Find out more and sign up at homemcr.org/HYC visit homemcr.org/mothers-who-make for info. Tickets £17.50 (£15.50 conc.) Recommended 14+ 20 21 THANK YOU TO OUR SUPPORTERS FOUNDING PATRONS Manchester Airport National Lottery through the Big Q-Park Ltd Lottery Fund Arnold and Brenda Bradshaw System One Travel One Manchester Ben Caldwell World Duty Free Places for People Meg and Peter Cooper WSP PRS Foundation John and Penny Early Relief Fund for the Victims of the Stephen and Jane Sorrell PROJECT SUPPORTERS Loss of Flight 4U9525 Santander Foundation PATRONS AND DONORS Accion Cultural Española (AC/E) Savannah Wisdom Beaverbrooks Charitable Trust Simon and Shalni Arora The Foyle Foundation BFI The Ford Britain Trust Martin Boulton Boshier-Hinton Foundation Chris Jeffries The Helen Hamlyn Trust HOME Inspires CBRE The Leche Trust Darren and Clare Jones Confucius Institute at the Our Communities Programme, #HOMEinspires The Peter Kershaw Trust Ashok and Anna Kallumpram University of Manchester connects with groups from across Greater Manchester The University of Manchester Brendan Pittaway Creative Europe MEDIA to ensure that as many people as possible have the Unity Theatre Trust Alison Ross D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust chance to take part in and experience HOME. The Raj and Reshma Ruia Young Manchester

GET INVOLVED Edwin Fox Charitable Trust Inspire Ticket Scheme provides £1 theatre tickets Roger and Margaret Stephenson Embassy of Spain – Office for to community groups, charities and voluntary CORPORATE MEMBERS Susan Webster Cultural and Scientific Affairs organisations who wouldn’t ordinarily be able to visit Ernest Cook Trust BIMA for a variety of reasons. If you work with a group you PLATINUM FRIENDS Esmee Fairbairn Foundation Eversheds Sutherland think would benefit please get in touch. Georgina Amica-Carpenter Evan Cornish Foundation (International) LLP Other opportunities include free tours, projects, a Andy Beaden The Fenton Arts Trust EY quarterly screening night and our HOME Inspires Richard and Joanna Bircher Film Hub North FASTSIGNS® Manchester Gallery. Playreading Alan Hales Film4 First Manchester Fiona Hudson First Street Hargreaves Jones Visit homemcr.org/communities for more Group Girando por Salas HFL Building Solutions information. Our popular Playreading group meets on the first SPONSORS Hong Kong Economic and Slater Heelis LLP Friday of most months at HOME. The sessions, HOME Inspires is supported by The Oglesby Trade Office, London The Manchester College which are open to all, offer an opportunity to read Auto Trader Charitable Trust Instituto Cervantes Manchester and discuss plays that are linked to our theatre Blackmagic Designs JMK Trust productions. The sessions are fun, friendly and Bruntwood John Ellerman Foundation informal and new members are always welcome. Clear Channel UK Mazars Charitable Trust LWC Entry price: £5 (includes refreshments and script) TICKETS AND BOOKING BOX OFFICE STUDENTS & JOB SEEKERS – GROUP BOOKING GO SUPER ADVANCE FOR £5 Online Theatre 1 Slate: Black Artists homemcr.org Students & Job Seekers can also take advantage of super advance Groups of 8+, £2.50 off per ticket, Development Call tickets for most theatre shows plus 1 free ticket for every 20 0161 200 1500 and film screenings, priced at just booked. Programme In person £5. Hurry, though: these low price Groups of 40+, £3.50 off per Led by Eclipse and delivered in partnership with Mon-Sun: 12:00 - 20:00 tickets are very limited and sell ticket, plus 1 free ticket for every HOME, Slate is a Northern artist development out fast. 20 booked. programme for and by Black Artists from all creative Book now at homemcr.org or call fields in the North West of England. Whatever art Theatre 2 0161 200 1500. form you are working in, whether your starting out PUSH Festival 10% off all tickets, if you book 10 or an old hand, this bespoke programme offers a Join us every January for two weeks of inspiring, or more. range of opportunities and support. creative experiences fresh from the North West when we will be entirely dedicated to showcasing Tickets must be booked in Visit eclipsetheatre.org.uk/slate for more some of the most exciting film, theatre and visual advance, not available on £5 information. arts from the region. tickets or preview tickets. 22 23 It’s pretty great being young, but • 10% books in the bookshop 15 – 25 Card it’s also pretty expensive, which is • Access to pre-sales why we are bringing you the 15-25 card. • One-off special offers and a tailored e-newsletter (if you sign With your 15-25 card you get: up to our mailing list) • £10 theatre tickets, with a To get your 15-25 card, all you need limited number of £5 tickets on to do is bring some proof of age sale to early bookers to HOME along with £1 (we’re a • Off-peak cinema prices all the charity and this helps to cover the time* cost of your card) and we’ll sign you • Invites to exclusive artist-led up on the spot. previews of new exhibitions Supported by: • 10% off food, hot drinks and soft drinks in the café-bar and restaurant

GETTING HERE By Metrolink By car HOME Deansgate-Castlefield is the nearest The nearest car park is Q-Park at First Metrolink stop, which is less than Street (next door to HOME). HOME 2 Tony Wilson Place five minutes’ walk from HOME. Check visitors receive a 20% discount on Manchester the Metrolink website for times and parking (validate your ticket or show M15 4FN updates (metrolink.co.uk) or if you’re a receipt from our cafe and bar, in the on Twitter follow @MCRMetrolink. venue). HOME is located at Tony Wilson Place, First Street, just off Whitworth Street By bus West, roughly opposite the Hacienda Visit tfgm.com for bus timetables apartments and a short walk from and a handy journey planner. If you’re Oxford Road and the Deansgate- travelling Castlefield Metrolink stop. from Piccadilly Gardens, the 256 bus KEEP IN TOUCH stops on Medlock Street. Alternatively, e-news homemcr.org/sign-up On foot use the Metroshuttles, free buses that link main rail stations, car parks, Twitter With our city centre location, reaching shopping areas and businesses in the HOMEmcr us on foot is simple. You could map city centre. TFGM’s Metroshuttle bus your route using the interactive (Green Route 2) stops near HOME. @HOMEmcr Manchester Walking Routes Planner Audioboom HOMEmcr You can also follow @officialtfgm for www.walkitcom/cities/manchester/ YouTube HOMEmcrorg or use a walking route app such as the latest public transport updates. mapmywalk. Flickr HOMEmcr By train By bike The nearest rail stations are Deansgate Bike racks are available next to HOME and Oxford Road, which are both five and the INNSIDE by Meliá hotel. There minutes’ walk from HOME. If you arrive if you don’t want to keep me are 20 Sheffield stands available and at Piccadilly or Victoria, it’s a 20-minute please return to our box office walk or a short journey by tram or additional racks are installed in the staff or recycle me! area surrounding First Street. Metroshuttle.

HOME is a trading name of Greater Manchester Arts Centre Ltd, a company limited by guarantee, registered in England and Wales No: 1681278. Registered office 2 Tony Wilson Place, Manchester, M15 4FN Charity No: 514719. 24