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MARCH — SEPT 16 On Corporation Street: ANU return BEHIND THE SCENES AT BEHIND THE SUN: NEW EXHIBITIONS JAZZ GOES TO THE MOVIES J.G. BALLARD: ALWAYS (CRASHING) ALL HAIL THE EMPEROR 1 P27 BEYOND CARING 13 - 16 JUL P16 - 17 ¡VIVA! SPANISH AND LATIN AMERICAN highlights FESTIVAL 7 - 24 APR P22 P10 ON CORPORATION ALWAYS STREET (CRASHING) P20 10 - 25 JUN 18 MAR - 8 APR GUTTED/ LATE NIGHT LOVE 19 - 21 MAY P27 P13 BEHIND THE SUN SMOKE AND 23 JUL - 25 SEP MIRRORS P20 31 MAR - 2 APR STOWAWAY 5 - 7 MAY P30 SOUNDTRACK P14 AUG INTO THE HOODS: REMIXED 6 - 9 APR P31 A PACIFIST’S GUIDE TO THE P15 P24 WAR ON CANCER IMITATION OF LIFE JAZZ GOES 20 - 24 SEP 30 APR - 3 JUN TO THE MOVIES P21 JUL 32 RUE P31 VANDENBRANDEN THE EMPEROR 23 - 25 MAY 28 SEP - 8 OCT 2 3 COntents FAMILY see 6 after the bomb FRIENDLY more, 8 march FILMS save 14 april & MORE money! What a difference a 16 ¡VIVA! SPANISH AND LATIN AMERICAN FESTIVAL year makes. This time last 18 Always (crashing) 20 may year our move had yet to 22 june 23 our home is your home happen and, although the Bring the family to your HOME from Ticket Saver 24 jazz goes home. Our regular family programme to the movies includes exciting performances, Book tickets for three theatre shows wacky workshops and great films at the same time and save 20%. building was almost ready, 26 july for you to enjoy together on a Sunday. Look for the ‘ticket saver’ stamp Sign up for our family newsletter on eligible shows. 28 singing in the rain or check our website for details. we weren’t quite at HOME. Don’t forget to book ahead – Offer does not include previews, 30 August our family events sell out quickly. £5 student super advance tickets or £10 tickets for shows in Theatre 1. 31 september BABY FRIENDLY Valid on top price tickets only. As we countdown to our 32 quick season guide SCREENINGS Great theatre from 34 Times, tickets Our Baby Friendly Screenings take just £10 (or less!) first anniversary, now & where to find us place on the third Thursday of every month and are a chance for parents, Most shows have seats priced grandparents and carers with children from just £10. seems a good moment under 12 months to watch films in a relaxed, baby-friendly space. You’ll find upcoming screenings listed at homemcr. STUDENTS – org/families, or sign up to our weekly to take stock. email for reminders! GO SUPER-ADVANCE Students can also take advantage of super advance tickets for most theatre BIG Family Card shows and film screenings, priced at just TICKETS FROM ONLY £4 £5. Hurry, though: these low price tickets are very limited and sell out fast. Sign up for a free HOME BIG Family Card* and get special price tickets for selected Book now at homemcr.org family films, theatre performances and or call 0161 200 1500. workshops. Just complete the form online Since last May, well over 600,000 visitors have with some of the world’s leading companies, or call us with your details and pick up dropped in. We’ve stood by our aim of nurturing such as with the Young Vic and Theatre de Ville your card on your next visit. Join HOME local talent, offering hundreds of hours of free on The Emperor (p31) and Bryony Kimmings, For more information, tickets and Become a HOME Friend or Member space to young theatre companies and showcasing the National Theatre and Complicite on details on our BIG Family Card, from just £30 per year to get priority the work of over 200 local creatives. And we have A Pacifist’s Guide to the War on Cancer (p31). visit homemcr.org/families or call booking on selected theatre shows 0161 200 1500. and film events and discounts in our café, issued over 10,000 theatre tickets for a tenner bar and bookshop. HOME Friends have the or less, as part of our drive to ensure that HOME We also welcome back ANU, as we premiere key * BIG Family Card purchases must include added bonus of knowing that their support is a place that’s for everyone. a new work, commissioned by HOME, which takes at least one child’s ticket (16 and under) helps make our work with communities as its starting point the IRA’s 1996 bombing of and one adult ticket (18+) for the offer and young people possible. to apply. Maximum of five tickets per At the heart of HOME is a desire to bring the Manchester. ANU, you may remember, were transaction. Tickets subject to availability, Find out more. Call 0161 200 1500 best and sometimes the most challenging art, responsible for the acclaimed Angel Meadow. ticket saver offer cannot be used with any other or visit homemcr.org/members theatre, music and more to Manchester audiences. It seemed fitting to work with them again in discount or offer. So, in the coming months, you’ll see the return a year that is our first – and also the twentieth of all things Spanish and Latin American with since the bomb that changed Manchester family the ¡Viva! Festival – bigger, better and this time so dramatically (p6). Do more spanning not just film but theatre, too (see p16). There’s a sterling programme of independent As I said, what a difference a year (or perhaps Building tours and international film. Highlights include seasons twenty) makes. We will, of course, mark our premiere that celebrate everything from jazz on screen first anniversary in a typically Mancunian way: Join us at 11:00 on the last Saturday to the work of J.G. Ballard (p18), via the power with a party. Further details of our May celebrations of every month for a free tour of of the cinematic soundtrack (p30). will be released very soon. HOME. Chat to members of the team, film season get behind the scenes and find out Until then, thank you – for coming along, how the theatres and cinemas work. Our visual art programme brings a little sunshine into what can admittedly be a rainy city: taking part, enjoying what we have to Book now via homemcr.org Behind the Sun: Prêmio Marcantonio Vilaça is offer and, yes, making yourself at home. or call 0161 200 1500. festival a fantastic introduction to the art scene of Brazil. In our theatres, meanwhile, we collaborate Dave Moutrey, Director and Chief Executive 4 BOOK NOW AT HOMEmcr.org or call 0161 200 1500 5 THEATRE after the bomb The makers of the acclaimed Angel Meadow of Irish and British history’s darkest corners. return to Manchester with a new performance – “What connects all three shows is the notion of and this time, finds Kate Feld, it’s personal. uninvited chaos,” Lowe says, “of events happening to civilians in their homes or their city which they Art isn’t something you can schedule in – it happens have to respond to.” to you. The trick is in recognising it when it happens. Theatre director Louise Lowe understands how the artist Coming during the centenary of the rebellion must always be alert to the small moments arising unlooked and the 20th anniversary of the Manchester bomb, for in a day that can, if you let them, change everything. the project has a kind of inevitability about it that Lowe runs the acclaimed Irish theatre company ANU, adds weight – this company doing this work in 2016. whose next production for HOME originated in a chance It’s a spectacular idea that won ANU funding from encounter and an unexpected remark. the Irish Arts Council, but the scope of it, at this stage in proceedings, must be sobering. “The ambition of this As Lowe tells it, in early 2014 the company were is absolutely terrifying… it’s probably silly ambitious,” in Manchester investigating locations for their first Lowe admits. “Put all of these things together and site-specific production for HOME, the critically acclaimed they become huge and magnificent and stirring and Angel Meadow. She was on crutches following a leg injury, exhausting all at once.” so rather than accompany the rest of the company into a building she waited outside with Trevor, a man who On Corporation Street is a collaborative production, was showing them around a number of properties. which is how ANU works. In their unusual kind of theatre “We were chatting away and suddenly he goes quiet making, every member of the company is involved in and he says to me: ‘why did you do it?’”. the research, design, development and performance of a work, and as often as possible the audience is too. It transpired that Trevor was talking about the IRA Without artistic rigour this could so easily dissolve into bombing of the city centre in 1996, an act he characterised chaos, so having an avatar like Lowe at the helm is crucial. as ‘the Irish turning on the Irish’. Lowe found herself While at the time of writing much is still taking shape, apologising to him, got annoyed with herself for apologising what we do know is that it will be an immersive performance to him, and initiated a conversation in which the man featuring Irish and local actors, that uses different locations explained that, although the event had brought change within HOME, and that it will likely feature audiences some considered positive, it still hurt - and as he saw it, and performers splintering off into small groups and the city had been divided ever since.