THEATRE . SPRING – SUMMER 2017 + CHRISTMAS 2017 1 Front cover image: WORLD PREMIERE QUICK GUIDE TO THE SEASON Janet Suzman as Rose “THE MOST EXCITING PURVEYORS OF 59 Productions, HOME and VIDEO FOR THEATRE IN THE WORLD” Lyric Hammersmith present 4 - 18 Mar PAUL AUSTER’S CITY OF GLASS 59 Productions, HOME and Lyric Hammersmith THE HERALD 16 - 25 Mar SICK! FESTIVAL Part of a city-wide programme of theatre, dance, film, PAUL AUSTER’S public installations and discussions CITY OF GLASS 31 Mar - 17 Apr ¡VIVA! FESTIVAL 2017 18 days of outstanding theatre, film and art from Spain, . LA TRANSICIÓN Latin America and beyond UNTIL 18 MARCH 18 - 22 Apr MY COUNTRY; A WORK National Theatre IN PROGRESS Adapted by Duncan Macmillan from the first novel in the New York 19 - 21 Apr LETTERS TO WINDSOR HOUSE Sh!t Theatre Trilogy, and the graphic novel by Paul Karasik and David Mazzucchelli 25 Apr PANTI: HIGH HEELS IN Soho Theatre and THISISPOPBABY LOW PLACES Post Production: Marcelo Dalle Grave 26 - 29 Apr CONNECTIONS 2017 National Theatre Ticket Photography: Christa Holka. Image Art Direction: David Curtis-Ring. Saver 3 - 4 May MK ULTRA Rosie Kay Dance Company 4 - 6 May TANK Breach Theatre 17 - 19 May JACK ROOKE: GOOD GRIEF Soho Theatre and THE GOOD GRIEF PROJECT Tony Award-winning 59 Productions 18 - 20 May HEADS UP Kieran Hurley (An American in Paris, War Horse, 25 May - 10 Jun ROSE HOME David Bowie Is) and award- winning writer Duncan Macmillan 7 - 17 Jun OPERATION BLACK ANTLER Blast Theory and Hydrocracker (People, Places and Things, Every Brilliant Thing, Lungs, 1984 and 4 - 8 Jul FLARE17 Exciting new international makers of experimental theatre The Forbidden Zone) bring this head to Manchester seminal American novel to life in a 5 - 15 Jul RETURNING TO REIMS Schaubühne, Manchester International Festival dazzlingly original stage adaptation. and HOME When reclusive crime writer 19 - 22 Jul GUTTED The Conker Group and HOME Daniel Quinn receives a mysterious call seeking a private detective 12 - 16 Sep THE WEDDING Gecko in the middle of the night, he quickly and unwittingly becomes the 22 Sep - 7 Oct PEOPLE, PLACES AND THINGS Headlong, National Theatre HOME & Exeter Northcott protagonist in a thriller of his own. 28 Sep - 15 Oct ORBIT 2017 Our selection of the most exciting productions from the He falls under the spell of a Edinburgh Fringe Festival and beyond strange and seductive woman, who engages him to protect her 3 - 25 Nov UNCLE VANYA HOME young husband from his sociopathic father. As the familiar territory 7 - 30 Dec LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD Little Angel Theatre AND THE WOLF of the noir detective genre gives way to something altogether 12 - 23 Dec HOT BROWN HONEY Briefs Factory more disturbing, Quinn becomes consumed by his mission, and Theatre 1 MARCH 31 Jan - 3 Feb GRAND FINALE Hofesh Shechter Company begins to lose his grip on reality. Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su homemcr.org/city-of-glass 1 2 3 4 5 This bold, technically ground- 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Ticket Saver Students - breaking production uses Tickets £26.50 - £10 go super advance FOR £5 stagecraft, projection, magic (conc. available) 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Book tickets for three theatre shows at the same and illusion to immerse audiences time and save 20%. Look for the ticket saver badge Students can also take advantage of super advance in the dizzying, disorientating and 19:30 on eligible shows. tickets for most theatre shows and film screenings, ultimately transcendental story priced at just £5. Hurry, though: these low price tickets that helped establish Auster’s 14:00 & 19:30 Offer does not include previews, £5 student super are very limited and sell out fast. reputation as “one of America’s No performance advance tickets or £10 tickets for shows in Theatre 1. greatest living novelists”. Valid on top price tickets only. Book now at homemcr.org or call 0161 200 1500 (The Guardian). 2 3 SICK! FESTIVAL Jahoo Koo presents Ogutu Muraya presents Lucas De Man presents 2017 LOLLING AND FRACTURED MEMORY DE MAN IN EUROPE LIFE. DEATH. SURVIVAL. ROLLING THU 16 - FRI 17 MAR, 21.00 SAT 18 MAR, 21.00 THU 16 - FRI 17 MAR, 19.00 How can one deal with an inherited Lucas De Man travelled to 17 cities history that is full of complexity? in eight countries in 30 days, and SICK! Festival heads to HOME as part of a city-wide programme of work In South Korea, there was a big controversy surrounding Weaving together literary text, interviewed more than 20 young confronting the physical, mental and social challenges that we face in our tongue surgery for children to video and storytelling, Ogutu creative professionals. Inspired individual and collective lives. Presenting an outstanding international help them achieve better English Muraya reimagines the congress by this journey he tells the story programme of theatre, dance, film, public installations and discussions, pronunciation. Theatre maker of Afro-intellectuals, writers, of a new generation awakening the 2017 festival has a special focus on questions of identity and belonging. Jaha Koo reveals the tragedy of artists, philosophers and theorists, in Europe, ready to fight for change this social phenomenon and the at the Sorbonne in Paris in 1956, as our continent transitions. obsession with English education described in James Baldwin’s For full programme visit homemcr.org/sick-festival-2017 through this fictional story, essay Princes and Powers. Tickets £12 (conc. available) video and sound work. Milo Rau, International Institute of Political Murder & CAMPO present FIVE EASY PIECES + Post-show Q&A SAT 25 MAR, 19.30 Milo Rau’s ground-breaking political theatre performed by 8-13 year Robert Softley presents Frascati Producties & olds, based on reconstructions of Milo Rau: Five Easy Pieces Anoek Nuyens present true stories that shatter the taboos IF THESE SPASMS of our age, asks how children can COULD SPEAK HELP understand the significance of narrative, empathy, loss, subjection, WED 22 - THU 23 MAR, 21.00 + Post-show Q&A FRI 24 MAR, 21.00 old age, and the horrors sometimes inflicted on them by adults. An outstanding solo performance based on a collection of funny, What do good works and charity sad, touching and surprising stories mean in the 21st century? Help On Thu 23 March, ahead of the about disabled people and their is a journalistic theatre project UK premiere of Milo Rau’s new bodies. Created and performed about heritage that forces us performance, HOME will also by actor Robert Softley (co-creator to think about responsibility and present two films by the artist - of National Theatre of Scotland’s charitableness, in an era in which The Last Days of the Ceauşescus Girl X), this show was a sell-out the individual rules supreme. and Hate Radio. Save £5 when hit at the Arches’ BEHAVIOUR you buy tickets for both Five Easy festival in 2012. Pieces and Milo Rau Double Bill at the same time. 4 5 BARCELONA NOW THU 6 - SAT 8 APR Barcelona is a city teeming with theatre makers and companies making productions as extraordinary as its architecture, leading the way with bold, challenging and engaging work. For ¡Viva! 2017, we bring you some of the unique voices emerging from the region who are making a big impact on the world stage. 18 days of outstanding theatre, film and art For full programme, from Spain, Latin America and beyond visit homemcr.org/viva-2017 homemcr.org/barcelona-now Following the sold-out success With the rise in opposition UK PREMIERE of Don Quijote at last year’s between anti-austerity and far- ¡Viva! festival, Emma Frankland right movements all over Europe Agrupación Señor and Keir Cooper are back, this and the UK, Republica is a timely Serrano presents Gorriz Pasqual Photography: time with flamenco dancers and examination of the last time a choreographers Juan Carlos government dared to take power BIRDIE Otero and Lola Rueda. from the super-rich to distribute THU 6 & FRI 7 APR, 21:00 WORLD PREMIERE it equally amongst its people. In a fusion of anarchic theatre Two mirages. Juan Carlos Otero, Keir Cooper and dance, a flamenco dancer, homemcr.org/republica and Lola Ruedain collaboration a guitarist and a stripper reclaim In one: wars, massive deforestation, with Emma Frankland the forgotten history of events Tickets £12.50 (conc. available) labor exploitation, political REPUBLICA leading to the Spanish Civil War. Recommended age 16+ instability, forced deportation, Performed in English abuse of natural resources, FRI 31 MAR, 20:15 food shortages… In the other: & SAT 1 APR, 19:45 stocked supermarkets, safe streets, good health service, paid The only thing there is, is movement. Agrupación Señor Serrano is work, respect for human rights, If it is impossible to stop an electron, Barcelona's theatre company welfare, recycling and renewable what’s the point in building fences of the moment, creating original UK PREMIERE Photography: rojobarcelona energies, social mobility… against flocks of birds? productions based on stories drawn Sol Picó presents from contemporary times. They won And in between, flocks of birds. Birdie is a multimedia performance the Silver Lion 2015 from the Venice ONE-HIT WONDERS Thousands of migrating birds with live video, objects, Hitchcock’s Biennale and Birdie is fast becoming SAT 1 APR, 19:30 constantly drawing impossible The Birds revisited, scale models, an international festival favourite. shapes in the sky. Movement. 2,000 mini animals, wars, smugglers, Winner of 2016's Spanish Ceaseless movement. Birds… a massive migration and three homemcr.org/birdie National Dance Award and beyond, planets, asteroids, performers handling this messy raw materials, blood, cells, world with wit, criticism and Tickets £12.50 (conc.