new season magazine

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new season magazine

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
highlights
P27
BEYOND CARING
13 - 16 JUL
P16 - 17
¡ VIVA! SPANISH AND
LATIN AMERICAN
FESTIVAL
7 - 24 APR
P10
ALWAYS
(CRASHING)
18 MAR - 8 APR
P20
P22
ON CORPORATION
STREET
10 - 25 JUN
GUTTED /
LATE NIGHT LOVE
P27
19 - 21 MAY
P13
SMOKE AND
MIRRORS
31 MAR - 2 APR
BEHIND THE SUN
23 JUL - 25 SEP
P20
STOWAWAY
P30
5 - 7 MAY
SOUNDTRACK
P14
AUG
INTO THE HOODS:
REMIXED
6 - 9 APR
P31
P15
P24
IMITATION OF LIFE
JAZZ GOES
TO THE MOVIES
30 APR - 3 JUN
P21
2
A PACIFIST’S
GUIDE TO THE
WAR ON CANCER
20 - 24 SEP
JUL
P31
32 RUE
VANDENBRANDEN
THE EMPEROR
23 - 25 MAY
28 SEP - 8 OCT
3
COntents
6
8
14
16
18
20
22
23
24
26
28
30
31
32
34
after the bomb
march
april
¡ VIVA! SPANISH AND
LATIN AMERICAN FESTIVAL
Always (crashing)
may
june
our home is your home
jazz goes
to the movies
july
singing in the rain
August
september
quick season guide
Times, tickets
& where to find us
FAMILY
FRIENDLY
FILMS
& MORE
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more,
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money!
Bring the family to your HOME from
home. Our regular family programme
includes exciting performances,
wacky workshops and great films
for you to enjoy together on a Sunday.
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Don’t forget to book ahead –
our family events sell out quickly.
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SCREENINGS
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place on the third Thursday of every
month and are a chance for parents,
grandparents and carers with children
under 12 months to watch films in a
relaxed, baby-friendly space. You’ll find
upcoming screenings listed at homemcr.
org/families, or sign up to our weekly
email for reminders!
BIG Family Card
TICKETS FROM ONLY £4
Sign up for a free HOME BIG Family Card*
and get special price tickets for selected
family films, theatre performances and
workshops. Just complete the form online
or call us with your details and pick up
your card on your next visit.
For more information, tickets and
details on our BIG Family Card,
visit homemcr.org/families or call
0161 200 1500.
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ticket saver
* BIG Family Card purchases must include
at least one child’s ticket (16 and under)
and one adult ticket (18+) for the offer
to apply. Maximum of five tickets per
transaction. Tickets subject to availability,
offer cannot be used with any other
discount or offer.
family
premiere
film season
festival
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BOOK NOW AT HOMEmcr.org or call 0161 200 1500
Book tickets for three theatre shows
at the same time and save 20%.
Look for the ‘ticket saver’ stamp
on eligible shows.
Offer does not include previews,
£5 student super advance tickets
or £10 tickets for shows in Theatre 1.
Valid on top price tickets only.
Great theatre from
just £10 (or less! )
Most shows have seats priced
from just £10.
STUDENTS –
GO SUPER-ADVANCE
What a difference a
year makes. This time l ast
year our move had yet to
happen and, although the
building was almost ready,
we weren ’t quite at HOME.
As we countdown to our
first anniversary, now
seems a good moment
to take stock.
Students can also take advantage
of super advance tickets for most theatre
shows and film screenings, priced at just
£5. Hurry, though: these low price tickets
are very limited and sell out fast.
Book now at homemcr.org
or call 0161 200 1500.
Join HOME
Become a HOME Friend or Member
from just £30 per year to get priority
booking on selected theatre shows
and film events and discounts in our café,
bar and bookshop. HOME Friends have the
added bonus of knowing that their support
helps make our work with communities
and young people possible.
Find out more. Call 0161 200 1500
or visit homemcr.org/members
Do more
Building tours
Join us at 11:00 on the last Saturday
of every month for a free tour of
HOME. Chat to members of the team,
get behind the scenes and find out
how the theatres and cinemas work. Book now via homemcr.org
or call 0161 200 1500.
Since last May, well over 600,000 visitors have
dropped in. We’ve stood by our aim of nurturing
local talent, offering hundreds of hours of free
space to young theatre companies and showcasing
the work of over 200 local creatives. And we have
issued over 10,000 theatre tickets for a tenner
or less, as part of our drive to ensure that HOME
is a place that’s for everyone.
At the heart of HOME is a desire to bring the
best and sometimes the most challenging art,
theatre, music and more to Manchester audiences.
So, in the coming months, you’ll see the return
of all things Spanish and Latin American with
the ¡Viva! Festival – bigger, better and this time
spanning not just film but theatre, too (see p16).
There’s a sterling programme of independent
and international film. Highlights include seasons
that celebrate everything from jazz on screen
to the work of J.G. Ballard (p18), via the power
of the cinematic soundtrack (p30).
Our visual art programme brings a little
sunshine into what can admittedly be a rainy city:
Behind the Sun: Prêmio Marcantonio Vilaça is
a fantastic introduction to the art scene of Brazil.
In our theatres, meanwhile, we collaborate
with some of the world’s leading companies,
such as with the Young Vic and Theatre de Ville
on The Emperor (p31) and Bryony Kimmings,
the National Theatre and Complicite on
A Pacifist’s Guide to the War on Cancer (p31).
We also welcome back ANU, as we premiere
a new work, commissioned by HOME, which takes
as its starting point the IRA’s 1996 bombing of
Manchester. ANU, you may remember, were
responsible for the acclaimed Angel Meadow.
It seemed fitting to work with them again in
a year that is our first – and also the twentieth
since the bomb that changed Manchester
so dramatically (p6).
As I said, what a difference a year (or perhaps
twenty) makes. We will, of course, mark our
first anniversary in a typically Mancunian way:
with a party. Further details of our May celebrations
will be released very soon.
Until then, thank you – for coming along,
taking part, enjoying what we have to
offer and, yes, making yourself at home.
Dave Moutrey, Director and Chief Executive
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THEATRE
after
the
bomb
The makers of the acclaimed Angel Meadow
return to Manchester with a new performance –
and this time, finds Kate Feld, it’s personal.
Art isn’t something you can schedule in – it happens
to you. The trick is in recognising it when it happens.
Theatre director Louise Lowe understands how the artist
must always be alert to the small moments arising unlooked
for in a day that can, if you let them, change everything.
Lowe runs the acclaimed Irish theatre company ANU,
whose next production for HOME originated in a chance
encounter and an unexpected remark.
As Lowe tells it, in early 2014 the company were
in Manchester investigating locations for their first
site-specific production for HOME, the critically acclaimed
Angel Meadow. She was on crutches following a leg injury,
so rather than accompany the rest of the company into
a building she waited outside with Trevor, a man who
was showing them around a number of properties.
“We were chatting away and suddenly he goes quiet
and he says to me: ‘why did you do it?’”.
It transpired that Trevor was talking about the IRA
bombing of the city centre in 1996, an act he characterised
as ‘the Irish turning on the Irish’. Lowe found herself
apologising to him, got annoyed with herself for apologising
to him, and initiated a conversation in which the man
explained that, although the event had brought change
some considered positive, it still hurt - and as he saw it,
the city had been divided ever since.
image courtesy
@manchesterfire
Their conversation stayed with Lowe. She talked
about the bombing with many other people while in
Manchester and discussed it with the theatre team
at HOME, and when they met in London at the 2014
UK Theatre Awards (where she was up for Best Director
for Angel Meadow) HOME’s Artistic Director for Theatre,
Walter Meierjohann and Lowe decided that “it might
form the basis for an interesting and ambitious inquiry”.
And so in June 2016 we’ll have On Corporation Street:
a production that looks at a critical moment in the history
of the city in a way that raises questions and provokes
discussion, but, Lowe stresses, doesn’t set out to determine
why the IRA bombing happened or make a judgement
about whether it was good or bad.
On Corporation Street would be ambitious enough
alone. But it’s to be the second part in a triptych of
theatrical performances. The other two, to be performed
in Dublin, address the Easter Rising of 1916 and the
commemoration of it in 1966. Taken as a whole the
endeavour will investigate terrorism, radicalisation
and rebellion; dig into how we collectively construct a
narrative around an event; and shine a light onto some
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of Irish and British history’s darkest corners.
“What connects all three shows is the notion of
uninvited chaos,” Lowe says, “of events happening
to civilians in their homes or their city which they
have to respond to.”
Coming during the centenary of the rebellion
and the 20th anniversary of the Manchester bomb,
the project has a kind of inevitability about it that
adds weight – this company doing this work in 2016.
It’s a spectacular idea that won ANU funding from
the Irish Arts Council, but the scope of it, at this stage
in proceedings, must be sobering. “The ambition of this
is absolutely terrifying… it’s probably silly ambitious,”
Lowe admits. “Put all of these things together and
they become huge and magnificent and stirring and
exhausting all at once.”
On Corporation Street is a collaborative production,
which is how ANU works. In their unusual kind of theatre
making, every member of the company is involved in
the research, design, development and performance
of a work, and as often as possible the audience is too.
Without artistic rigour this could so easily dissolve into
chaos, so having an avatar like Lowe at the helm is crucial.
While at the time of writing much is still taking shape,
what we do know is that it will be an immersive performance
featuring Irish and local actors, that uses different locations
within HOME, and that it will likely feature audiences
and performers splintering off into small groups and
then coming back together. The production will draw on
material collected at four ‘objective inquiries’ the company
will convene in Manchester over winter and spring 2016,
chaired by Catriona Crowe, Head of Special Projects at
The National Archives of Ireland. At these events they’ll
invite city officials, business owners, police, witnesses,
academics and members of the public to discuss the
IRA bombing and its legacy.
The word inquiry is a recurring one in our conversation
and it feels apt for the kind of theatre ANU makes,
one Lowe says is seeking “a different kind of communion
with audiences” than that afforded by the traditional
model where they sit passively in their seats and are
given a performance to take on board. “I suppose what
I’m trying to do is create environments where truthful
exchanges and interesting engagements can happen
between the performer and the viewer – exchanges
where no one knows where the power lies.” Anyone in
the audience at Angel Meadow will have experienced
that strange push-pull dynamic between performer
and audience – an experience both thrilling and unsettling
in its ambiguity. This is theatre as urgent inquiry, then:
fierce and rigorous, demanding and difficult to predict.
On Corporation Street is at HOME from Fri 10 - Sat 25 Jun.
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MARCH
MARCH
LIVE MUSIC & FILM
Celluloid
History Songs
With score by Josephine Oniyama
WED 2 MAR, 20:00
Back at HOME with new production
and additional musical accompaniment,
this live multimedia performance from
singer-songwriter Josephine Oniyama
takes place against a backdrop of historical
footage drawn from the North West Film
Archive held at Manchester Metropolitan
University, and edited by filmmaker
Kim May of Asta Films.
The specially-commissioned songs
were influenced by scenes of Northerners
at leisure, taken from the archive’s many
inspiring images of industrial working-class
people, young and old, discovering ways
to spend their new leisure time. Josephine’s
lyrics are adaptations of poems written
in response to the film footage.
Produced by HOME in association
with the North West Film Archive,
this performance first took place as part
of Everything Everything’s Chaos to Order
residency at Manchester Central Library,
produced by Brighter Sound. This new
production will feature electronic and
acoustic elements, and accompaniment
THEATRE
Manchester
Theatre Awards
FRI 4 MAR, 13:00
The biggest and brightest regional
theatre awards come to HOME for
the first time. Hosted by the inimitable
Justin Moorhouse, the awards promise
to be a hugely enjoyable celebration of
the best theatre from across the region –
don’t miss the limited number of public
tickets up for grabs.
Find out more at manchestertheatre.com
or by following @MTAwards on Twitter.
by Steve Marsden on guitar and
Alan Keary on cello.
Tickets £15
Music and Film is produced by HOME
in collaboration with the Royal Northern
College of Music and is supported by
Film Hub North West Central, part of
the BFI Film Audience Network (BFI FAN).
THEATRE
ART/HOME PROJECTS
Brought to Light
UNTIL SUN 6 MAR, FREE
Broughton House in Salford is home
to some incredibly inspiring residents –
as this collaboration between the care
home, photographer Daniel Walmsley
and communications agency Havas Lynx
illustrates. Little known outside of Salford,
Broughton House residents are all
ex-service men and women, and this
exhibition of their portraits is an
unapologetic celebration of ageing.
A combination of intimate, unwavering
photography and personal stories,
Brought to Light tells a very modern
tale of a handful of veterans as brave
as they are humble.
Supported by Havas Lynx.
ART
Please note that the running time of this
performance is 35 minutes and latecomers
will not be admitted.
Lawrence Speck in association
with LittleMighty presents
Shapeshifter
FILM
SUN 6 MAR, 12:00 & 14:00
Crime: Hong
Kong Style
The town is up in arms! Local resident
Kilroy Quinn accuses Ursula Foot of being
a shapeshifter and calls an emergency
town meeting. As Kilroy puts his case,
the audience takes on the role of the jury.
What will you decide - guilty or not guilty?
FEB - APR
With a city of 7.2 million people,
you’re bound to find a few bad apples.
From noir-tinged thrillers and tales of
hardnosed gangsters to comic capers,
our explosive new season of crime
film serves up stone cold classics
(Infernal Affairs, Election) alongside
cult movies (Police Story, As Tears Go By)
and forgotten gems (Too Many Ways to
be No. 1, Portland Street Blues). Along the
way we also screen the stylish premieres
of Dante Lam’s That Demon Within and
the legendary Ringo Lam’s Wild City.
All in all, it’s a season of some of the
greatest crime films ever made.
CRIME: Hong Kong Style is presented
with the support of the BFI, awarding funds
from The National Lottery. This season is
also supported by Hong Kong Economic
and Trade Office, London. With special
thanks to the Confucius Institute. It will
tour to venues across the UK this spring.
Curated by Andy Willis (University of
Salford) and produced by Rachel Hayward,
Programme Manager: Film for HOME.
A wildly entertaining hour that brings
together storytelling, puppetry, comedy
and an original musical score, this is a
unique theatrical experience for young
and old. Lawrence Speck, creator of hit
show The Boggle, continues his series of
lively family shows based on traditional
English folk tales.
Developed with the support
of Barnsley Civic.
Recommended for everyone aged 4+
See more, save money!
Take advantage of our film deals –
the more you see in our
CRIME: Hong Kong Style season,
the lower the price.
See 4 - 7 films, save £1 per ticket
See 8 - 15 films, save £1.50 per ticket
See 16 or more films, save £3 per ticket
All tickets must be purchased at the
same time. Subject to availability
and cannot be used retrospectively.
Tickets £5
HOME BIG Family Card holders: £4
Supported by
The New Social presents
An evening with
Artemy Troitsky
MON 7 MAR, 19:15
We are delighted to present an evening
with Russian music and cultural critic,
Artemy Troitsky, in support of his
forthcoming book dedicated to youth
movements and subcultures in Russia
(out in 2016). Troitsky will be in conversation with
Manchester based music journalist,
critic and musician John Robb t o discuss
the role that underground music and art
movements played in shaping Russian
society and culture in the last years of
the USSR, the shifts in that cultural
landscape post-1991 and into today.
The role of youth movements and
subcultures in Russia forms the subject
of Troitsky’s study in the forthcoming book,
as an alternative social and cultural history
of Russia that spotlights the key people,
groups and movements – Pussy Riot,
Petr Pavlensky, the Voina group –
that have come to define Russian culture
and politics in the last five years.
The New Social is an independent
London-based collective founded by
Olya Borissova, Anya Harrison and
Karina Gechtman that stages public
programmes - including film screenings,
talks and special projects - as a way
of rethinking the ‘New East’.
Find out more at homemcr.org/hk-crime
Tickets
One Hour Intro from £4 (conc. available)
Individual films from £7 (conc. available)
Tickets £5 (conc. available)
Wonder Women
THU 3 - SUN 13 MAR
See two rediscovered gems of female
filmmaking in March, as HOME shows
Girlfriends and Born in Flames –
part of Wonder Women, Manchester’s
annual feminist festival. From 3 - 13 March,
Wonder Women celebrates the women’s
movement born in our city through film,
art, music, walking tours, gallery takeovers,
comedy and debate, asking how far
we’ve come in 100 years – and how far
we have yet to go.
Find out more at wonderwomen.org.uk
Girlfriends (CTBA)
SUN 6 MAR, 16:20
Lena Denham’s Girls and the critically
acclaimed comedy drama Frances Ha
have both made a phenomenon out of
a brand of New York neurosis that is
distinctly female. But almost 40 years
earlier, debut director Claudia Weill
wrote and directed Girlfriends, a woefully
neglected gem about Susan, a struggling
photographer who is forced to fend for
herself when her roommate Anne
decides to get married.
Don’t miss an introduction and
post-screening discussion led by
Jemma Desai, the founder of I am Dora,
a curatorial initiative that explores how
women relate to one another through
the medium of film.
Born in Flames (15)
TUE 8 MAR, 18:20
A skilful blend of art and activism,
Born in Flames achieved instant
recognition when it was released in
1983. Lizzie Borden’s politicized film
is an attempt to show how black,
white and Hispanic women could come
together and use direct action to address
inequality - within both the workplace
and society as a whole. Highlighting
the emerging feminist movement at the
beginning of the Reagan administration,
Born in Flames is an allegorical tale that
inventively draws on the sci-fi genre to
make its point.
Don’t miss an introduction to this
film by Dr. Monica Pearl, Lecturer in
20th Century American Literature
at the University of Manchester.
Supported by
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Image: Gianmarco Bresadola
FILM
Always (Crashing)
FRI 18 MAR - FRI 8 APR
What our children have to fear is not
the cars on the highways of tomorrow
but our own pleasure in calculating the
most elegant parameters of their deaths.
Complicite /
Simon McBurney present
The
Encounter
WED 16 - SAT 19 MAR, 19:30
SAT 19 MAR, 14:00

“The Encounter
is a tour de
force that shows
contemporary
theatre at its
most immersive
and thought
provoking.”
Financial Times
“the most
influential and
consistently
interesting
theatre
company
working
in Britain.”
The Times
In 1969, National Geographic photographer
Loren McIntyre found himself lost in a
remote part of the Brazilian rainforest,
among the people of the remote Javari
Valley. It was an encounter that was to
change his life: bringing the limits of
human consciousness into startling focus.
Simon McBurney tells McIntyre’s story,
transporting us into the depths of the
Amazon rainforest, in this critically
acclaimed production, a stand-out
highlight of the 2015 Edinburgh Festival.
McBurney incorporates innovative
technology and groundbreaking sound
design into his solo performance to evoke
a rainforest landscape, building a shifting
world of 3D sound transmitted direct
to the audience via headphones.
The Encounter plugs into the power
of our imaginations and creates a unique
exploration of nature, time and our
own consciousness.
Directed and performed by Simon McBurney.
Inspired by the novel Amazon Beaming
by Petru Popescu.
A Complicite co-production with the
Barbican, London, Edinburgh International
Festival, Onassis Cultural Centre – Athens,
Schaubühne Berlin, Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne
and Warwick Arts Centre. Supported by
Sennheiser and the Wellcome Trust.
Tickets £29 - £25 (conc. available)
Age guidance 12+
Headphones will be supplied and worn by
the audience throughout this performance.
Caption subtitled Thu 17 Mar, 19:30
The captioned performance will trial
Talking Birds’ Difference Engine –
a discreet new tool for making events
and performance accessible to deaf
or hard of hearing audience members
through captioning to your mobile device
(smartphones/tablets). If you’re intending
to make use of this, please contact us
in advance for more information: [email protected]
Coinciding with the release of High-Rise,
we present a celebration of J.G. Ballard.
An author whose work is distinctly
cinematic in style, Ballard, who favoured
the extreme metaphor, also had a
very direct relationship with film.
Though his novels frequently attract
the term ‘unfilmable’, despite being filmed,
Ballard has also been the subject of
numerous screen profiles. The title of the
season comes from a newly commissioned
film work that takes as its focus abiding
Ballardian tropes: the car, architecture
and environments founded on the notion
of control that are actually teetering
on the brink of collapse.
Films in this season:
MARCH
MARCH
THEATRE
THE JAPAN FOUNDATION TOURING
FILM PROGRAMME 2016
Ikiru: The Highs
and Lows of Life
in Japanese cinema
SUN 20 - THU 24 MAR
The Japan Foundation’s UK annual
Touring Film Programme returns with
an expansive introduction to Japanese
cinema, via a selection of films that
explore life and death in Japan.
Sarusuberi:
Miss Hokusai (12A)
SUN 20 MAR
Based on a manga comic of the same
name, this animation directed by Keiichi
Hara (Crayon Shin-chan, Colorful) skilfully
uses 2D and 3D animation to bring the
rich world of Ukiyo-e - woodblock print
artists - to life.
Directed by Keiichi Hara.
Japanese with English subtitles.
Moving Pictures: J.G. Ballard (CTBA)
Screening with High-Rise,
FRI 18 MAR, 20:10
Alphaville (12A)
SUN 20 MAR, 13:00
TUE 22 MAR, 20:40
WED 23 MAR, 13:00
The Atrocity Exhibition (18)
FRI 25 MAR, 18:00
Always (crashing) (CTBA)
As a short with selected
screenings of High-Rise,
FRI 25 - THU 31 MAR
Empire of the Sun (PG)
SUN 27 MAR, 15:10
Crash! (CTBA)
Screening with High-Rise,
WED 30 MAR, 17:40
Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (15)
THU 31 MAR, 20:40
Double Bill/La jetée + Sans soleil (15)
FRI 8 APR, 18:00
For more about Ballard on film
and the Always (crashing) season,
take a look at our feature on P18.
Tale of a
Butcher Shop (CTBA)
The Elegant Life of
Mr. Everyman (CTBA)
TUE 22 MAR
THU 24 MAR
This sensitive portrayal of the Kitades
family, the seventh generation to run
their family butchers, illustrates a
wider social tale: that of the Burakumin,
Japan’s “untouchable” class. Despite
the caste system being abolished in
the 19th century, the Burakumin –
and by extension the Kitades family –
still face daily discrimination.
This example of a 1960’s Japanese
“salaryman” comedy follows Eburi,
an uninspired writer who, while drunk,
makes a commitment to write a
masterpiece. Don’t miss an introduction
to this film by Jonathan Bunt, Senior
Lecturer in Japanese Studies at the
University of Manchester.
This film will be introduced
by Director Aya Hanabusa.
Directed by Kihachi Okamoto.
Supported by Japan Airlines,
the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation
and the Okinawa Film Office.
FILMED UP: Want your short
film screened at HOME?
Filmed Up is our regular North West
filmmakers’ night. With screenings every
quarter and the programme selected
from an open submission of short films
of any genre that are under 20 minutes
in length, old or new, and made by
filmmakers currently based in the
North West, it’s a chance to get
your work seen by our audiences.
Submissions are accepted all year round.
Find out more: Deadlines, screening
dates and submission forms can be
found at homemcr.org/filmedup
THEATRE
Image: Reuben Paris
HOME and Citizens Theatre,
Glasgow present
Endgame
By Samuel Beckett
THU 25 FEB - SAT 12 MAR, 19:30
SAT 5, WED 9 & SAT 12 MAR, 14:00
Languishing between life and death,
the chair-bound tyrant, Hamm
(played by David Neilson) and his
dutiful but resentful companion Clov
(Chris Gascoyne) are irrevocably bound
to one another. A classic of modern
theatre, Beckett’s absurd and macabre
play makes a grim joke of life - and finds
laughter in the darkness. Dominic Hill,
Artistic Director of the Citizens Theatre,
brings his talent for gripping and
absorbing contemporary interpretations
of classic texts to Beckett’s masterpiece.
Directed by Dominic Hill.
Starring David Neilson and Chris Gascoyne.
Tickets £26.50 - £10 (conc. available)
Audio described & touch tour
Thu 3 Mar 18:00
BSL interpreted Sat 5 Mar, 19:30 Caption subtitled Thu 10 Mar, 19:30
“Superb… Never
loosens its grip
for An enthralling
hour and a half.”
The Herald Scotland
Supported by
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HOME FROM HOME/
THEATRE
PERFORMED AT OLD GRANADA STUDIOS
Quarantine presents, in co-production
with HOME, Contact and SICK! Festival
SUMMER. AUTUMN.
WINTER. SPRING.
TUE 22 - FRI 25 MAR, 20:00
SAT 26 MAR, SAT 2 & SUN 3 APR, 14:00
AL and AL:
Incidents of
Travel in the
Multiverse
UNTIL SUN 27 MAR, FREE
This major new solo exhibition of film,
drawing and installation is inspired
by the father of Artificial Intelligence,
Alan Turing, the work of Dr. Bart Hoogenboom
– who created of the world’s first ‘real’
images of DNA – and Icarus at the
Edge of Time, the popular children’s book
by physicist Brian Greene. Incidents of
Travel in the Multiverse takes us to the
edge of the universe and beyond.
Curated by Sarah Perks and Bren O’Callaghan.
Commissioned by the Alfred P Sloan
foundation, BFI, HOME, Royal Society,
Southbank Centre, Wellcome Trust and
World Science Festival. Presented in
Manchester by HOME and Contact.
Part of Queer Contact Festival 2016.
Find out more at homemcr.org/al-al
“Incidents
of Travel
in the
Multiverse
takes us to
the edge
of the
universe
and
beyond.”
See more: Tour the exhibition
with artists AL and AL, and curators
Bren O’Callaghan and Sarah Perks.
Sat 5 Mar, 14:00, FREE
BSL interpreted
by Siobhan Rocks
WATCH MORE: We’re screening
a season of out of this world films
inspired by the exhibition including:
Solaris (PG)
SUN 6 MAR, 13:00
TUE 8 MAR, 19:40
WED 9 MAR, 13:00
Alphaville (12A)
SUN 20 MAR, 13:00
TUE 22 MAR, 20:40
WED 23 MAR, 13:00
Stalker (CTBA)
SAT 26 MAR, 17:10
Double Bill: La Jetée + Sans Soleil (15)
FRI 8 APR, 18:00
An extraordinary quartet about our
relationship with time, HOME Associate
Company Quarantine presents a mass
portrait of real people.
Summer. sees dozens of people on stage,
responding to unrehearsed questions
and instructions. Autumn. unfolds as
a two hour-long interval in history,
full of food, conversation and clairvoyance.
Winter. is a film, a fragile triptych
about a person at the end of their life.
And Spring. is performed by a group
of pregnant women, asking questions
about hope and imagining the future.
Summer. Winter. and Spring. can be
seen as individual performances or
alongside Autumn. in an epic day-long
marathon event.
Supported by Arts Council England,
The Wellcome Trust and The Granada
Foundation.
Tickets
£14 - £5 (individual shows)
£25 - £15 (full quartet)
march
MARCH
ART
HOME FROM HOME/
THEATRE
FILM
ART/HOME PROJECTS
Najia Bagi: What
would Billie do?
UNTIL MAY, FREE
PERFORMED AT CAMPFIELD MARKET HALL
A Streetwise Opera and The Sixteen
co-production, in association with HOME
The Passion
FRI 25 MAR, 19:00 & SAT 26 MAR, 18:30
A landmark production for Easter 2016,
directed by Penny Woolcock. In the historic
surrounds of Campfield Market Hall,
an abridged version of Bach’s iconic
oratorio St Matthew Passion is brought
to life as an immersive, fully staged opera.
This contemporary promenade performance
guides audience members around the
much-loved Victorian market hall.
The vibrant cast comprises the choir
and period-instrument orchestra of
The Sixteen alongside performers,
from Streetwise Opera, who have
experienced homelessness, and features
a new finale jointly written by Streetwise
Opera’s performers and celebrated
composer Sir James MacMillan.
Supported by Arts Council England
and Macquarie Group Foundation.
The Railway Children
MON 28 MAR, 11:30
(2hr 05mins, including a 15 minute interval)
Bring the family for a screening of York
Theatre Royal’s Olivier award-winning
production of great family favourite
The Railway Children, filmed at the
National Railway Museum in Yorkshire
and featuring the original locomotive
from the 1970 film. E Nesbit’s tale follows
the story of Bobbie, Phyllis and Peter,
three sheltered siblings who suffer a
huge upheaval when their father is taken
away from their London home and falsely
imprisoned and they begin a new life in
rural Yorkshire. Mike Kenny and Damian
Cruden’s imaginative stage adaptation
is directed for the screen by International
Emmy award-winning Ross MacGibbon.
Tickets
£15 adults / £12 children (16 and under)
HOME BIG Family Card holders £13 adults
/ £10 children (16 and under).
Using raw, brutally honest love songs
as inspiration, you as the storytellers
and HOME as the safe space explore
heartbreak, gain and loss – as HOME
Projects extends beyond our galleries in the
first of a series of project-led commissions.
Musician and artist Najia Bagi started
What would Billie do? when she sang at
our opening in May 2015, using postcards
to ask the audience to respond to her
songs by sharing stories of heartbreak.
She then returned the following November
to ask more questions whilst performing
- questions such as what have you given
up for love? What do we need to lose in
order to grow? What are the gaps left in
your life following significant relationships?
And have they been resolved? Join Najia
as she explores these questions and many
more, through performance, installation and
intervention, in the run-up to HOME’s first
birthday in May 2016. Oh, and by ‘Billie’
we do, of course, mean Billie Holiday.
Tickets £22 - £15 A limited number of free access tickets are
available for people who have experienced
homelessness. Email [email protected]
or call 020 7730 9552 for more information.
This is a promenade production where the
audience will be required to walk and stand
throughout all or part of the performance.
THEATRE
The Ricochet Project presents
Smoke and
Mirrors
THU 31 MAR - SAT 2 APR, 19:30
American company The Ricochet
Project arrives in Manchester after
a blistering season at the Edinburgh
Fringe Festival, where their unique style
of contemporary circus received critical
acclaim - and a Total Theatre Award.
Combining jaw-dropping virtuosity
with an intimate acrobatic performance,
Riochet create experiences that have
played to sold-out houses and standing
ovations from Hollywood to Mumbai.
The high-flying cast of Smoke andv Mirrors
literally strip away their suits of capitalism.
Beautiful and uncompromising, Ricochet’s
nearly naked approach to poetic acrobatics
reveals the inner workings of humans and
how we tie ourselves up in knots in the
pursuit of happiness.
Contains nudity.
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APRIL
APRIL
DANCE
ZooNation and Sadler’s Wells present
Into the
Hoods:
Remixed
WED 6 - SAT 9 APR, 19:30
SAT 9 APR, 14:00
This is a newly revamped version of the
award-winning production that stormed
the West End in 2008. Under the direction
of Sadler’s Wells Associate Artist Kate
Prince, the much-loved show returns to
the stage with all the wit and charm of
the original, updated for 2015 with new
choreography, a remixed soundtrack
and fresh designs. It’s a brilliant night
out for families and dance fans and will
particularly appeal to kids aged 7 and up.
Set in the ‘Ruff Endz Estate’, the story
follows two lost school children who
have been tasked to find an iPhone as
white as milk, trainers as pure as gold,
a hoodie as red as blood and some
weave as yellow as corn. Along the way,
they meet DJ Spinderella, wannabe singer
Lil Red, vivacious rapper Rap On Zel,
budding music producer Jaxx, and embark
upon a storybook adventure into the
heart of a pulsating community.
Co-produced with Sadler’s Wells Theatre,
co-commissioned by Curve, Leicester, and
supported by the National Lottery through
Arts Council England.
Recommended age 7+
Under 18’s £10
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“YOU DON’T GET
MUCH MORE FEEL
GOOD THAN THIS
FUNK-FUELED, FASTPACED HIP HOP
FAIRY-TALE.”
MUSIC & FILM
FILM
THEATRE
HarmonieBand presents
A Cat in Paris (PG)
National Theatre presents
Underground (CBTA)
Silent film with live musical accompaniment
SUN 3 APR, 13:00
Anthony Asquith’s 1928 silent classic
is set to a new, live score by Paul Robinson.
In it, Bert, an electrician, and Bill, a London
Underground porter, both fall in love with
shop worker Nell. But when Nell chooses
Bill, Bert resorts to devious tactics.
The social spaces of 1920s London
(parks, pubs and shops) play an important
role in Anthony Asquith’s working-class
love story. Most central to the narrative
of the film, as the title suggests, is the
London Underground itself, its bustling
public corridors and carriages providing
an arena in which people from all walks
of life intermingle.
Directed by Anthony Asquith.
HarmonieBand has appeared at many
UK film festivals and at venues and
festivals across Europe.
SAT 23 APR, 11:30
SUN 24 APR, 11:30
Connections 500
Dino is a cool cat. By day, he hangs out
with a little girl called Zoe, whose mother
is a police officer. By night, he works with
Nico, a jewellery thief with a big heart.
When Dino gives Zoe a present of a
diamond bracelet it’s not long before
the police are trying to track down the
thief. Trying to protect Dino, Zoe follows
him and unwittingly stumbles on a team
of gangsters who have a big robbery in
mind. Zoe finds herself in danger and
it’s up to Dino and Nico to try and
save her. A jazzy film noir for children,
this is delightfully old school animation.
Greater Manchester’s youth theatres,
schools and colleges perform at HOME
in the National Theatre’s Connections
festival, celebrating young theatre-makers.
This year marks the festival’s 21st
anniversary and 500 youth theatre
companies will perform 12 outstanding
plays. The result is an unforgettable feast
of theatre made by and for young people.
We’re delighted to welcome young
performers from Loreto High School,
Denton Community College, Queen’s
Park High School, Whalley Range 11-18
High School, Garrick Youth Theatre
and Langley Theatre Workshop.
Tickets £4 with HOME BIG Family Card.
Sat 23 Apr, 11:30
(Dubbed, relaxed screening)
Sun 24 Apr, 11:30
(In French with English subtitles)
THEATRE
ART
Breach presents
Imitation
of Life:
Melodrama
and Race
in the 21st
century
THU 31 MAR & FRI 1 APR, 20:00
SAT 2 APR, 14:00, 20:00
It’s been just over 30 years since the
Battle of the Beanfield – a brutal crackdown
on the annual Stonehenge Free Festival.
Called away from policing the miners’ strike,
officers enforced an injunction around
the ancient stones with bloody violence
and mass arrests.
This new exhibition looks at racial politics
in an evolving world. Oral histories and
verbatim storytelling drawn from theatre
and cinema, painting and sculpture all
confront the fluid, changing politics of
representation and race.
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“Theatrically ambitious
and boldly political.”
The Guardian
Winner of a Total
Theatre Award at
the 2015 Edinburgh
Fringe Festival.
Tickets £5
SAT 30 APR - SUN 3 JUL, FREE
PREVIEW FRI 29 APR, 18.00 - 21.00
Armed with a camera, a map and
home-made riot gear, Breach set out
to mark the anniversary with a historical
re-enactment. Onstage, the same performers
try to capture the 2015 Stonehenge
summer solstice: there’s hot dog stands,
Hare Krishnas and MDMA, as a group of
young people try to connect – but it all
feels a bit fake.
Blending documentary footage with new
writing, Breach presents a multimedia show
about state violence and national heritage.
Connections 500 is supported by
Arts Council England, Andrew Lloyd
Webber Foundation and Jacqueline
& Richard Worswick.
Find out more at homemcr.org/NTconnections
from March 2016
The Evening Standard
THE BEANFIELD
THU 28 - SAT 30 APR, 19:00
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“Theatrically ambitious
and boldly political.”
The Guardian
Inspired by the 1959 film of the same name
(by legendary German-American director
Douglas Sirk), this exhibition, like the film,
is filled with subtext and double meaning.
Imitation of Life considers the context of
racial politics over the last fifteen years
in the US and Europe, focusing on artists
whose work uses (melo)drama as a form
of social, political and institutional critique.
The group exhibition includes a new
commission from Sophia Al-Maria and
work from Michael Armitage, Kevin Beasley,
Loulou Cherinet, Loretta Fahrenholz,
Tony Lewis, Jayson Musson, Jacolby
Satterwhite and Martine Syms.
Do more
Watch more: Look out for an
accompanying season of films exploring
the themes of this exhibition, including
Sirks’ Imitation of Life and Todd Haynes’
Far From Heaven. homemcr.org/film
See more: Exhibition tour:
Sat 4 Jun, 14:00, FREE
BSL interpreted
Read more: The exhibition is
accompanied by publication Fear Eats
The Soul, a collection of new poetry,
fiction and essays by contributors
including HOME Patron Jackie Kay MBE,
Sarah Perks, Omar Kholeif, Jacolby
Satterwhite, Sophia Al Maria, Zach
Blas, Pamella Dlungwana, Sharifa
Rhodes-Pitts and Martine Syms.
Available in the HOME bookshop.
Curated by Omar Kholeif and Sarah Perks.
homemcr.org/imitation-of-life
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¡ VIVA! SPANISH & LATIN
AMERICAN FESTIVAL
THU 7 – SUN 24 APR
For its 22nd edition, ¡Viva! returns with a venue-wide celebration of Spanish
and Latin American culture. For the first time we bring you a specially selected
programme of the most exciting film and theatre from across the Spanish-speaking
world. We have two weeks of great international performances, starting with two
brand new works commissioned by HOME from Catalan theatre makers ATRESBANDES
and Little Soldier before we head to Cuba for a showcase of work by award-winning
playwright Abel González Melo. The packed film programme features the best in new
Spanish and Latin American filmmaking, presenting an exciting line-up including UK
premieres from new and established directors from Spain, A
rgentina, Chile, Colombia,
Cuba, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru and Venezuela.
homemcr.org/viva-2016
The best in Spanish
and Latin American
Filmmaking
Film highlights include ¡Viva! favourite
Álex de la Iglesia’s dazzling spectacle
Mi Gran noche and Juntos y revueltos
(Side by Side, Eye to Eye) from Nicolás
Muñoz, a documentary about a Cuban
cultural centre founded on the ideals of
acceptance and inclusion, and beloved
by its local LGBTQ community.
Other must-sees include a preview of
El Clan, a thoroughly gripping drama about
a criminal family from award-winning director
Pablo Trapero; Gabor, an inspirational
documentary which tells the remarkable
story of a blind cinematographer as he
collaborates with a director to make a
short film; pitch black Spanish comedy
Carmina y amén and Ixcanul, a moving
drama about a teenager who tries to
escape her arranged marriage.
To accompany our preview screening of
Cesc Gay’s devastatingly good Truman,
an elegy to love, friendship and dogs,
this year ¡Viva! celebrates the work of
actor and film director Ricardo Darín,
one of Argentina’s most well-known and
popular film stars, with a short retrospective
including UK hits The Secret in Their Eyes
and White Elephant.
Full details of our ¡Viva! film programme
is available in March from
homemcr.org/viva2016
THEATRE
in 2006. Chamaco went on to win multiple
awards and has been translated into many
languages, produced across the world,
and made into a film. His later plays Talco
and Mecánica have also been performed
internationally to great acclaim.
ATRESBANDES and HOME present
All In
THU 14 - SAT 16 APR, 20:00
Atresbandes is a young theatre company
from Barcelona that has established a
reputation for sharp, perceptive work –
and we are delighted to host the world
premiere of its latest performance as
part of this year’s festival.
Emma Frankland, Keir Cooper
and Ultimo Comboio present
A playful exploration of Cervantes’ novel,
combining incredible visual imagery,
live music and dance, this is an unmissable
performance about standing up for what
you believe in – despite what society may
say. An intimate production for a limited
audience, who will be seated on HOME’s
Theatre 1 stage (right next to the action),
this version of Don Quijote also features
a secret guest performer in the title role.
The translation of Chamaco by
William Gregory was originally
commissioned by the Royal Court
Theatre’s International Department.
Derailed
THU 7 - SAT 9 APR, 20:00
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Christmas Eve in Havana. A knife fight over
a few pesos leads to a young man’s death,
as a worn-out sister waits for her brother
to come home for a Christmas dinner that
he will never eat. The darkness over the
city shrouds a cocktail of illicit passions,
unspoken pain and a dog-eat-dog struggle
for survival, whose consequences force
its participants to confront and question
every aspect of their day-to-day lives
in contemporary Cuba.
Directed by Walter Meierjohann.
Translated by William Gregory.
FRI 15 & SAT 16 APR, 19:30
Little Soldier and HOME present
This is not an advert. We’re not campaigning
for a political party. We’re not sure what
we think or what we want. We don’t even
really know how to play these instruments.
There are strong convictions but no plan.
Just yet. Little Soldier presents a show
about how to change the world.
Hopefully. Maybe.
Chamaco ( Kiddo)
THU 21 - SAT 23 APR, 19:30
UK PREMIERE
Scratch staging
Don Quijote
Award-winning theatre company
Little Soldier Productions invite you to
join us in the live recording of a concept
album about social change. Using elements
of physical theatre, storytelling, intimate
confession and live music, Derailed is
about politics and rock & roll. (Or maybe
it’s just about rock & roll).
For ¡Viva! we present a UK Premiere of
Chamaco as well as a newly commissioned
piece, Weathered which together span
ten years of the struggles and hopes of
Cuban society.
Weathered
SAT 23 APR, 11:30
HOME has been selected to take part in
the prestigious 2016 World Stages project,
devised to create a series of 12 linked
international residencies and exchanges
between major UK producing venues
and international artists. Melo will develop
Weathered as part of his residency here
at HOME and we’ll present this reading
of it on Sat 23 April.
Translated by William Gregory.
HOME presents
Cuba Now: Abel
González Melo
THU 21 - SAT 23 APR, 19:30
We’re delighted to welcome leading
contemporary Cuban playwright Abel
González Melo to HOME.
Born in Havana in 1980, Melo is one of
the most internationally known playwrights
of contemporary Cuba. He writes about the
underbelly of Cuban society, about its harsh
realities and relationships. His first success
came with the play Chamaco (Kiddo),
staged at the Teatro Nacional de Cuba
Tickets
Chamaco £10
Weathered £3
See both for £11 (tickets must
be purchased together)
¡Viva! is presented with Instituto
Cervantes (Manchester) and the
Office for Cultural and Scientific
Affairs, Embassy of Spain in the
United Kingdom with the support
of the BFI, awarding funds from
The National Lottery.
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FILM
ALWAYS
(CRASHING)
With this spring’s release of High-Rise –
an adaptation of J.G. Ballard’s 1975 novel –
Jason Wood, Artistic Director: Film, finds
time to explain the enduring appeal of all
things Ballardian.
You won’t just see High-Rise at HOME
this spring. Coinciding with Ben Wheatley and
Amy Jump’s film, which we preview with producer
Jeremy Thomas in attendance, is our broader
celebration of J.G. Ballard. Ballard remains one
of the most influential and inspirational of all
film writers – when it comes to talking about film,
for example, who hasn’t heard the term ‘Ballardian’?
And the reason for that influence is because J.G.
Ballard’s work began at the cutting edge of science
fiction before mining the dystopia of modern living;
an extreme metaphor for the essential incompatibility
of mankind and the (often questionable) impact that
technology has on us all.
Ballard was a known admirer of cinema,
with a particular interest in mondo films, that Italian
genre of exploitation documentary-style film that
exemplifies the violence, death and the taboos of
late 20th century life. These are themes that run
through Ballard’s later novels, short fiction and
innumerable essays, while Alphaville and Mad Max 2
are just two films that he expressed an admiration for.
One of the author’s final masterpieces, meanwhile,
is ripe for the screen, big or small. Super-Cannes is
a jaw-droppingly prescient look at wealth, privilege
and organised violence – and it also sticks the boot
into the pomposity of the Cannes Film Festival,
memorably describing it as “a cultural Nuremberg”.
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While critics may argue that Super-Cannes,
and many of his novels, are unfilmable, in fact
Ballard’s work has made it onto screen several times.
Perhaps his best-known novel – The Empire of the
Sun – was turned into a film by Spielberg, and while
it may have been shot a little conventionally it did bring
Ballard newfound fame and wealth. An avant-garde
collection of vaguely interrelated short stories,
The Atrocity Exhibition, was also filmed, this time
by Jonathan Weiss, while most famous is Cronenberg’s
Westminster-baiting Crash, an audacious tilt
at Ballard’s seminal novel that is a hymn to the
highway of human desire. Crash, incidentally,
was produced by Jeremy Thomas, which brings
us nicely back to High-Rise. (As a further aside,
Ballard was involved in the Harley Cotkis-directed
Crash!, a genuine oddity hailing from 1971 that’s
a compelling blend of synthesisers, sci-fi futurism
and architectural modernism.)
We will be showing many of these titles during
our Ballard celebration (although sadly not Crash,
due to the unavailability of 35mm prints in the UK
and Cronenberg’s preference for screenings only in
this format), which in turn follows on from HOME’s
Chris Petit season – which includes Petit’s short
TV portrait of Ballard. In many ways, Ballard and
Petit are entirely simpatico, with Petit doing for
the moving image what Ballard did for literature.
And there is new work in our Ballard season, too:
Always (crashing) by Simon Barker and myself
is influenced by Crash! and takes as its focus
some abiding Ballardian tropes: the car, modernist
architecture, and environments founded on the
notion of control that are – in reality – teetering
on the brink of collapse.
Check HOMEmcr.org /always-crashing for more details
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THEATRE
THU 19 - SAT 21 MAY, 19:45
Conker Group and HOME present
Gutted
This is a story about shame.
Liz is young and ready to party. She won’t
let anything get in the way of a good time.
Her body has other ideas though. She’s got
a problem, an embarrassing problem and
these Activia Yoghurts are doing nothing.
The Conker Group and Liz Richardson
bring you a shameless tale of love,
laughter and lavatories. Based on Liz’s
real life experience of living with Ulcerative
Colitis, Gutted invites you on a journey
of frank confessions, colourful characters
and too much brown sauce.
Co-produced by The Conker Group and
HOME, supported by The Wellcome Trust,
IA and Arts Council England.
Eggs Collective and HOME present
LATE
NIGHT
LOVE
Somewhere in the static between
radio stations, Eggs Collective present
Late Night Love, a tender and ridiculous
show that clambers up your drainpipe
with a rose between its teeth.
Inspired by the confessional radio show
of the same name, Late Night Love is
an unflinching attempt to unpick the
truth from the fiction of chocolate boxes
and untangle expectations of adulthood
from the promise of power ballads.
“The trio
creates salty
work at the
boundaries
of theatre
and cabaret,
often offering
sly satire
under a veil
of sweetness.”
Raw-edged and warm-hearted, tune
in to Late Night Love, where teenage
crushes wrangle with the reality of
romance, saxophones cry and secrets
crackle from radios in the dark.
£12 (conc. available)
Recommended age 12+
The New York Times
Analogue presents
Stowaway
By Hannah Barker and
Lewis Hetherington
THU 5 - SAT 7 MAY, 19:30
A Boeing 777 begins its descent towards
Heathrow. The wheels unfold out of the
belly of the plane. The frozen body of a
stowaway is tipped out and cuts through
the clear morning sky. In the car park of
B&Q, Andy looks up. Something is falling
out of the sky. A man crash-lands on
the ground in front of him.
MAY
MAY
THEATRE DOUBLE-BILL
FILM
Pilot Light
TV Festival
THEATRE
FILM
THU 5 - SUN 8 MAY
The first edition of the Pilot Light TV
Festival arrives at HOME in May.
While TV is a major part of pop culture,
it’s typically watched alone. Pilot Light
turns that idea on its head with a
totally new, communal TV experience.
This four-day event features exclusive
screenings and Q&A panels based
around the best past, present and
future TV and web TV series.
Pilot Light is the perfect opportunity
for TV fans and industry members alike
to celebrate the TV they love so much,
and discover new talent from the world of
independent TV and web series production.
Find out more at pilotlightfestival.co.uk
A man from India finds himself far from
home and adrift from everything he knows.
He hides in the wheel arch of a commercial
airliner bound for the UK, in a bid to
change his life.
SEXUALITY SUMMER
SCHOOL: LOVE AND
ITS OTHERS
Filter in association with
the Royal Shakespeare
Company presents
Twelfth Night
WED 11 - SAT 14 MAY, 19:30
THU 12 & SAT 14 MAY, 14:00
Two worlds collide in this explosive new
take on Shakespeare’s lyrical Twelfth Night.
Olivia’s melancholic, puritanical household
clashes head on with Sir Toby’s insatiable
appetite for drunken debauchery. Orsino’s
relentless pursuit of Olivia and Malvolio’s
extraordinary transformation typify the
madness of love in Illyria, a land of
make-believe and illusion.
This story of romance, satire and mistaken
identity is crafted into one of the most
exciting and accessible Shakespeare
productions of recent years. Experience
the madness of love in this heady world
where riotous gig meets Shakespeare.
Stowaway is the story of an extraordinary
journey in search of an impossible future.
But what are the rules of telling someone’s
story when they come from a world so
different from our own? This is a new show
from the two-time Fringe First winners.
Written by William Shakespeare.
Created by Filter.
Directed by Sean Holmes.
MON 23 - FRI 27 MAY
The Sexuality Summer School is an
annual programme of events which this
year explores the theme of Love and its
Others. Bringing together postgraduates,
researchers and international scholars
with artists and filmmakers, the school
opens up dialogue and discussions
exploring contemporary debates in queer
and feminist sexuality studies, with a
particular emphasis on the interdisciplinary
study of culture. Speakers this year include
feminist film scholar Professor Patricia
White on Todd Haynes’ Carol in history
and theory, and Toronto Filmmaker
Richard Fung.
Organised by the Centre for the Study
of Sexuality and Culture (CSSC) at the
University of Manchester since 2008,
and funded by the University of
Manchester Faculty of Humanities
and Screen, partnered by HOME,
Contact and Manchester Pride).
Recommended age 14+
“The bright
young things
of British
Theatre.”
The Observer
THEATRE
Peeping Tom presents
32 Rue
Vandenbranden
MON 23 - WED 25 MAY, 19:30
HOME INTERNATIONAL GUEST ARTIST
Cinematic set design and jaw-dropping
physicality combine to create an
unforgettable piece of dance theatre
that plunges spectators into a foreboding
universe of cold, wind and ice. Two rickety
trailer homes sit within a snow-covered
landscape, left wholly exposed to the
elements under a wide, open sky.
Here, the people of a small mountain
community succumb to their subconscious
fears, overcome by a pervading sense
of loneliness that they can’t escape.
Six performers contort, bend, jerk and
levitate in dizzying scenes of hypnotic
movement, with an unsettling soundtrack
that includes music by Bellini, Stravinsky
and Pink Floyd. The Belgian dance
collective Peeping Tom has toured
internationally with this uncompromising
show, and was awarded the Best
New Dance Production at the 2015
Olivier Awards.
Recommended age 12+
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JUNE
THEATRE
Images courtesy of @Manchesterfire
ART/FILM
Call and Response:
Susan Pui San Lok (CBTA)
THU 16 JUN, 18:30
As part of the Centre for Chinese
Contemporary Art’s (CFCCA) ongoing
Call and Response series of sound art
events, CFCCA and HOME stage a
one-off screening of Kung-Fu sequences
from susan pui san lok’s Trilogies
installation. Trilogies draws on fan
uploads of various TV adaptations
of martial arts epic The Condor Trilogy.
This screening will be accompanied
by live sound performances devised
by three Manchester based artist.
our
home
is your
home
For visitors arriving by car or taxi,
there is free, on-street parking
for Blue Badge holders on Whitworth
Street West. The nearest car park
is Q-Park at First Street, next door
to HOME, with 28 disabled parking
spaces. HOME visitors receive
a 20% discount on parking
(validate your ticket or show a
receipt from our cafe and bar
in the venue). The best place for
drop-offs is on Whitworth Street
West: pull up in front of the silver
bollards beneath Arch 70, next to
Belvoir Lettings. It is approximately
100m from here to our front door
on a flat paved road.
Find out more at
cfcca.org.uk/exhibitions/susanpuisanlok
ANU Productions & HOME present
On
Corporation
Street
FRI 10 - SAT 25 JUN, 18:00 & 19:30
“ANU’s
work takes
site-specific,
immersive
theatre to
a level it
has never
before reached...
creating
a superbly
well-judged
mixture of
the almost
unbearably
real and the
mesmerisingly
poetic.”
Following the sold-out Angel Meadow
in 2014 (winner of Best Production
& Best Ensemble, Manchester Theatre
Awards 2014), ANU and HOME join
forces again for another exhilarating
and intimate experience.
2016 marks the twentieth anniversary
of the bombing of Manchester by the
provisional IRA. The bomb, the largest
ever detonated in mainland Britain,
devastated the city centre, and injured
212 people. On Corporation Street
responds to this seismic event, a pivotal
moment that transformed the shape of
the city, and ANU will occupy HOME with
a series of fearless and personal encounters.
Past, present and future collide, propelling
us through landscapes inspired by the
memories and myths of Saturday 15 June 1996.
Prepare to uncover secrets, surrender your
senses and share fragments of the event
and its aftermath.
On Corporation Street is the second in
a triptych of productions by ANU marking
the centenary of Ireland’s Easter Rising.
Read more about ANU and On Corporation
Street in our interview with Louise Lowe,
ANU Artistic Director, on P6.
Impact on the City: Listening
to the voices of Manchester
To help shape and develop On Corporation
Street, ANU will host three public and
specially curated events, exploring personal
experiences and the impact of the bomb
on the city. More information on the events
and how you can get involved will be
available soon.
Tickets £23 - £10
Preview 10 June £10
For more information visit
homemcr.org/on-corporation-street
Fintan O’Toole,
The Irish Times
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ARTIST FILM
RELAXED EVENTS
Relaxed events at HOME are
for anyone who would welcome
watching a film or seeing a theatre
performance in a more relaxed
environment. They have been
designed to be friendlier to people
with autism spectrum conditions
and their families but they may
also be suitable for people with
sensory disorders or learning
difficulties. We aim to make the
events as inclusive as possible,
so they are open to all, even if
you don’t need the adjustments
we make for relaxed performances
and screenings.
Feature Expanded
JUN - NOV
HOME and Lo schermo dell’arte in Florence
unite to present the second edition of
the groundbreaking, Europe-wide training
programme for visual artists developing
and producing their first feature film.
The programme features a combination
of masterclasses, screenings and
workshops and participants will acquire
the skills they need in order to develop
an early-stage feature film project for
theatrical distribution and exhibition.
This is the first specifically designed
course of its kind in Europe.
Applications open in January 2016.
See featureexpanded.com for
more information.
MUSIC & FILM
The Membranes:
Dark Matter/Dark
Energy (CBTA)
ACCESSIBILITY
Alongside a range of accessible
theatre performances and film
screenings, including Audio
Described, British Sign Language
interpreted performances and
tours and captioned performances
and films, we also offer discounted
tickets for disabled visitors and
their essential companions.
There are wheelchair spaces in
Theatre 1 and in all of our cinema
screens, with full lift access to
all floors. All of our cinemas have
induction loops, and assistance
dogs are very welcome.
If you’re 15 - 25 and you’re into
art, film and theatre then HOME
Young Creatives is for you.
Every year we’ll be putting
on an amazing series of
free workshops, projects and
commissioning opportunities,
which will be lead by industry
professionals.
In the theatre, we make
some subtle changes to our
performances, toning down loud
noises and lighting effects and
leaving the house lights on low.
The doors to the theatre remain
open throughout, we provide
a chill-out space in a separate
part of the building if needed
and there is a relaxed attitude
to noise and movement within
the theatre.
We also hold relaxed screenings
every month. For these we keep
the cinema lights on low and
turn the volume down a little.
There are no trailers or adverts
and you are free to move around
the cinema, and to bring your
own food and drinks.
To find out more or to book
wheelchair spaces, call our Box
Office team on 0161 200 1500
TEACHERS, SCHOOLS
AND COLLEGES
Use film, the visual arts and
theatre to inspire your GCSE,
AS, A2 and equivalent students
with our programme tailored
to schools and colleges, and to
students studying Modern Foreign
Languages, Film & Media, Visual
Arts, Drama and English subjects.
We offer group booking deals
for schools for most theatre
performances and film screenings,
plus bespoke venue and gallery
tours for students.
Find out more about what
we have to offer schools
and colleges by contacting
[email protected] or
visiting homemcr.org/schools
BE INSPIRED
Our Inspire Ticket Scheme supplies
low cost theatre tickets and free
venue tours to local community
groups keen to experience all
that’s on at HOME. It’s a scheme
that’s generously funded by
The Oglesby Charitable Trust
and supported by Transport for
Greater Manchester and First Bus.
Find out more about Inspire
and how we can work with
your community: contact
[email protected]
INTERESTED IN VOLUNTEERING
AND TRAINING?
Build your skills and get
involved in our work at HOME.
With opportunities ranging from
apprenticeships, and internships
to work placement schemes,
there’s plenty to get stuck into.
Opportunities are advertised
on homemcr.org/jobs, or for more
information about joining the
HOME volunteer team, email us
at [email protected].
HOME GROWN TALENT
Spotting, developing and
showcasing the work of local
creatives is important to us.
We run skills development
workshops and courses throughout
the year, alongside networking
sessions and open submission
opportunities to ensure that your
work gets shown. Don’t forget
to check the creatives section
of our website for information
on up and coming opportunities.
Find out more at
homemcr.org/creatives
HOME
YOUNG CREATIVES
Sign up for more information
at homemcr.org/HYC
TBC JUN
Post-punk band The Membranes – formed in 1977 and fronted by John Robb
– perform their critically acclaimed
Dark Matter/Dark Energy album with
the Sireen Choir from Estonia. The album
will be showcased in front of a unique
film about the universe – in what will
be a truly mind-altering experience. This one-off gig also features an
in-conversation with a scientist on
space and scientific experiments.
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FILM
JAZZ GOES
TO THE MOVIES
The HOME film team are working with Manchester
Jazz Festival to plan a great season of jazz inspired
films for August 2016. Daniel Graham gives us a
historic run-down of the uneasy relationship between
jazz and cinema.
It’s often been observed that jazz and cinema were
the two most significant and wide-reaching ‘new’ art forms
of the twentieth century, developing at approximately
the same time, the major difference being that jazz
went through radical stylistic changes faster than cinema.
Both were invented in America, one by wealthy European
and Jewish businessmen/entertainers, the other by racially
segregated African Americans – two vastly different
beginnings to say the least.
Jazz and cinema both flourished in the 1920s when
the giants of each discipline began to make their mark –
D.W. Griffith and Irving Thalberg in Hollywood, and Louis
Armstrong and Duke Ellington in New Orleans and Harlem.
While cinema represented the truest essence of American
culture – storytelling, the star system, escapism wrapped in
an industrial-sized manufacturing industry (the studio system)
– jazz was born from the collective genius of a handful of
men, working with limited means and a relatively miniscule
performance scale despite the success of their record sales.
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in the history of jazz and cinema – Bert Stern’s wonderful
Jazz On A Summer’s Day and Miles Davis’ iconic soundtrack
(mostly improvised) to Louis Malle’s classic Ascenseur
pour l’echafaud. Duke Ellington’s pulsing soundtrack to
Otto Preminger’s courtroom thriller Anatomy Of A Murder
remains a classic in the genre, and by the late 1950s
it seems that jazz was at last being recognised for
the great American music that it was.
It wasn’t until the 1960s, though, that jazz and cinema
began to speak the same language. The birth of American
independent cinema found a natural empathy with avant-garde
jazz and other progressive forms of the genre, and one dazzling
example is John Cassavetes’ beat era jazz riff of a film,
Shadows, which features music from Charles Mingus and
Shafi Hadi. Shirley Clarke made two brilliant contributions
around this time, too: The Connection, with alto saxophone
great Jackie McLean (in a film rather lamentably about junkies)
and The Cool World, featuring music by piano maverick Mal
Waldron and Bebop legend Dizzy Gillespie.
In the broadest sense, fiction films depicted the jazz
musician as the brilliant genius who was also a hopeless
addict. Try Bertrand Tavernier’s Round Midnight, for example,
distinguished in large part by a once in a lifetime performance
by jazz legend Dexter Gordon, or Clint Eastwood’s Charlie Parker
biopic, Bird and Spike Lee’s Mo Better Blues. Truth be told,
Dexter Gordon and Charlie Parker were addicts, but these
films spent far too much time dwelling on this rather
than their music.
The two would cross paths during their heydays,
with jazz often coming off as the poor cousin. Early on,
for example, the financial juggernaut of the studio system
relegated jazz to a virtual sideshow presence in cinema consider Louis Armstrong dressed in ‘jungle attire’ in one
of his early film appearances, A Rhapsody In Black And Blue
(1932), grinning idiotically. But things did improve for jazz,
and by the 1950s and 1960s prominent jazz musicians were
appearing with more dignity in major Hollywood productions –
such as the Chico Hamilton Quintet in Sweet Smell Of Success
alongside Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis, or Louis Armstrong
sharing significant screen time with Bing Crosby (in a tuxedo
this time) in High Society and, several years later, in Hello
Dolly, still grinning, unfortunately. Luckily, the ebullience
of Armstrong’s magisterial trumpet playing left the more
enduring legacy here.
It is perhaps in later documentary films that we find a
more fitting homage to America’s greatest musical art form,
with classics such as Bruce Weber’s love letter to Chet Baker,
Let’s Get Lost, Charlotte Zwerin’s magisterial Thelonious Monk:
Straight No Chaser and Shirley Clarke’s outstanding Ornette:
Made In America. The day may yet come when Hollywood,
or independent filmmakers with sufficient backing, produces
a grown-up, intelligent, non-sensationalist jazz biopic that
actually attempts to explain what it is that makes jazz
so special. Until then, we’ll have to be content with the
rare moments when jazz and cinema have struck a chord –
as the Jazz Goes to the Movies season aims to illustrate.
Outside the Hollywood mainstream, documentaries
and film soundtracks captured some of the defining moments
Jazz Goes to the Movies comes HOME in July 2016,
presented in collaboration with the Manchester Jazz Festival.
Check homemcr.org / jazz-goes-to-the-movies for more details
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THEATRE
Bootworks Theatre presents
The Many Doors
of Frank Feelbad
SUN 10 JUL, 11:00, 13:00, 15:00
Bootworks Theatre presents
Now Listen
To Me Very
Carefully
THU 7 & FRI 8 JUL, 19:45
SAT 9 JUL, 18:30
Imagine if you lived your life according to
the values set out in the movie Terminator
2. Now Listen To Me Very Carefully is
exactly that, a semi-autobiographical piece
about Andy’s filmic obsession. He estimates
he has watched Terminator 2 roughly
238 times in his lifetime, spending almost
a month of his 28 years in front of it.
As a teenager, Terminator 2 was all he
had to guide him through his adolescence...
so using stand-up comedy, storytelling
and participation, Andy transports the
audience back to that delicate age
when girls were a mystery, make believe
was everything – and the future was
yet to be written.
Devised and performed by Andy Roberts
and James Baker.
Do more

“DIY remake of
a Hollywood
blockbuster –
with a warm
glow.”
Total Terminator DAY:
Add a screening of The Terminator
to your theatre ticket on Sat 9 Jul
Theatre + film ticket £17.50
Recommended age 15+
The Scotsman
Following The Incredible Book Eating Boy,
Bootworks return to HOME with this
brand new show. The Many Doors
of Frank Feelbad is a show for kids
(and their accompanying grown-ups),
and it follows Frank, an inquisitive chap
with a big problem: what’s happened
to Mum? Join Frank on his adventure
to find her. There’ll be scavenger hunts
and puzzles to solve as you enter
The Lose-O-Porium – an intimate
space where all lost things live.
Tickets £12 adults, £5 conc.
BIG Family Card holders:
£10 adults, £4 conc.
JULY
JULY
THEATRE
THEATRE
Alexander Zeldin and Company present
Beyond
Caring
WED 13 - SAT 16 JUL, 19:45
Four people arrive to work the night
shift in a meat factory. They meet for
the first time. They are employed as
cleaners by a temp agency. They are
all on zero hours contracts. Every shift,
they clean. Every four hours, they take
a break. They drink tea or coffee together,
read magazines, chat. As it gets light,
they go home, or to another job.
The cycle goes on. And on. Strangers.
Until something stirs, until isolated
people get too lose to one another,
too fast. Through investigation,
first hand experience and with the
involvement of those on zero hours
contracts, Alexander Zeldin’s brutally
honest, darkly humorous play exposes
the stories of an invisible class.
By Alexander Zeldin and written through
devising with the company. Designed by
Natasha Jenkins. First produced at the
Yard Theatre, London and subsequently
at the National Theatre.


“Unforgettable”
The Guardian
The Times

“Beyond praise”
Time Out Critic’s Choice
The New York Times

The Telegraph
Recommended age 14+
ART
Behind the
Sun: Premio
Marcantonio
Vilica
SAT 23 JUL - SUN 25 SEP, FREE
PREVIEW FRI 22 JUL, 18:00 - 21:00
A group exhibition made up of the five
winners of the Premio Marcantonio Vilica,
the largest contemporary art prize in Brazil,
this exhibition is a snapshot of new work
from across the country. With film,
performance, sculpture, photography
and original performance, Behind the Sun
challenges our preconceptions of a
country that’s often reduced to frivolous,
carnival-esque stereotypes.
Marcantonio Vilica was an influential
Brazilian artist and advocate of Latin
American art; the annual prize dedicated
to his memory features a shortlist of
30 artists, both established and emerging,
put together by 15 leading curators from
across Brazil. It’s a prize that ensures
that all regions of Brazil are represented,
with an underlying theme of art
and industry.
See new work by Berna Reale, Gê Orthof,
Grupo EmpreZa, Virginia de Medeiros
and Nicolas Robbio. Virgina de Medeiros,
alongside curator Raphael Fonseca,
have also been awarded a residency
at Manchester School of Art.
Watch morE: Brazilian Weekender:
THU 21 - SUN 24 JUL
Not going to the Olympic Games in
Rio de Janeiro? In July, HOME will
be presenting a selection of the best
features from filmmakers working in
Brazil today. Contemporary Brazilian
cinema is going through a very creative
phase at the moment. Directors such
as Hilton Lacerda, Tata Amaral, and
Adirley Queiroz attempt to come to
terms with the country’s recent history
of oppression whilst focusing on some
of Brazil’s current debates about race,
sexuality, and the displacement
of local populations for the Olympic
Games. The Brazilian Weekender
includes special events for film fans
and language learners, including a
Portuguese language taster session.
This event is presented in partnership
with the University of Manchester
and the University of Leeds.
See more: Exhibition tours:
Sat 3 Sep, 14:00, FREE,
BSL interpreted
Curated by Marcus Lontra. This exhibition
is a partnership with Manchester School
of Art, in conjunction with Plano Cultural.
Premio Marcantonio Vilica is supported by
CNI, SESI and SENAI.
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ART
SINGING
IN THE RAIN
Behind the scenes at Behind the Sun: Stevie Mackenzie-Smith
talks to the makers of our upcoming Brazilian art show.
“To me, the concept of ‘Brazilian art’ or even a ‘Brazilian
artist’ is more fiction than anything,” curator Raphael Fonseca
tells me ahead of Behind the Sun: Prêmio Marcantonio Vilaça,
HOME’s summer exhibition of work by the winners of Brazil’s
biggest contemporary art prize. “I prefer a broader term,
regarding the geography of Brazil: the many ‘Brazils’ inside one
geographical Brazil is one of the things that most excites me.”
Coinciding with the 2016 Olympic Games, which take place
this year in Rio de Janeiro, HOME’s latest exhibition is a snapshot
of a contemporary art scene, one that looks beneath the warm,
stereotypical glow of Copacabana, carnivals and caipirinhas
to uncover some of Brazil’s most exciting artists working today both established and emerging.
Selected from a shortlist of thirty, works produced by the
five winners of the Prêmio Marcantonio Vilaça make up Behind
The Sun. It’s curated by Marcus Lontra, whose iconic exhibition
Como Vai Você, Geração 80? (Where Are You, Generation 80?)
surveyed the artistic landscape following the country’s return to
democratic rule in the 1980s, and went on to launch the careers
of numerous artists. Alongside runs a site-specific performance
from the collective Grupo EmpreZa, whose tense work at last
year’s Brazilian art prize saw a well-heeled executive apparently
slipping from a rock face, runs alongside the exhibition.
A Brazilian film weekender also coincides with the exhibition.
(“Perfect”, says Sarah Perks, HOME’S Artistic Director of Visual
Art. “It’s July... so I’m sure it will be raining.”) And, elsewhere,
the show’s other curator, Raphael Fonseca, will be taking
up a residency at Manchester School of Art alongside
Behind the Sun artist Virginia de Medeiros. It’s a broad-ranging
show that encompasses everything from film to installation
and, says Perks, “like the Turner Prize, the Prêmio Marcantonio
Vilaça doesn’t represent everything, but is a way of getting
to know certain artists and artforms.”
“How would you like to be seen by society?” was a question
recently posed by Virginia de Medeiros, whose retouched
photographic portraits of homeless people in Fortaleza sit
with their recorded testimonies. It’s a gesture that gives
them control over the public gaze they are usually subject to.
Their portraits beam from the walls, the gaudy colours of their
dresses and suits reminiscent of the kitsch portraits of dictators.
The performance artist Berna Reale is also represented.
Working in public spaces, and concerned with the violence
that’s so prevalent in her country, Reale’s work makes for
uncomfortable viewing. In a 2009 performance, for example,
she lay naked on a table beside a market hall, her stomach
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covered in intestine-like raw meat, her body watched over
by circling, hungry-looking vultures. This time, a video shows
her dancing a rendition of Singin’ In The Rain, dressed
in gold and wearing a gas mask. Her feet move over
a red carpet that rolls through an endless rubbish dump;
in the background bending men rifle through the piles
in search of valuable anomalies.
“Berna Reale, Grupo Empreza and Virginia de Medeiros
all work in ways that deal with the body of the other, and the
body of the artist,” says Raphael Fonseca. “Through their work,
we see one perspective of some of the art produced in Brazil
today. Elsewhere, there is the work of Gê Orthof and Nicolás
Robbio, both dealing with the limits between sculpture,
installation art and geometry.”
Pink Lego, a copy of a Geografia Universal world atlas,
carpet offcuts and a small glass deer are some of the
miscellaneous objects Gê Orthof has appropriated for a
sculpture that covers the floor like a giant, rainbow-hued
ruler. Nicolás Robbio’s installation, on the other hand,
is a physical grid that looks like the beginnings of an
architectural draft.
The Prêmio Marcantonio Vilaça surveys contemporary
art from across the whole of Brazil - it’s not restricted to the
cultural hubs of São Paulo or Rio de Janeiro. But do the creative
industries in Brazil, as here in the UK, fall victim to the “us and
them” rhetoric characterising capital cities as centres at the
expense of regions? “I think this happens in every country,” says
Fonseca. “There are always cities with identities constructed
as economic and cultural centres and others seen as peripheral.
It’s important to remember that these perceptions are constructed
by political interest. Nowadays digital connections between
the different regions of Brazil make it possible to get to know
artists living everywhere in the country. Happily, we don’t see
Brazilian art as synonymous with Rio or São Paulo, but more
as a melting pot of contrasting voices constituting different
interpretations of what visual art in Brazil can be be.”
Why bring the exhibition to Manchester? “There’s an
attitude in Brazil that Manchester has too, a ‘we don’t care,
we’ll do it differently and we’ll have fun’ approach,” says Sarah
Perks. Many cities clutch at pop culture in order to cement
their identity; that’s true of both Manchester as a city and
Brazil as a nation. “Contemporary art is such a big part
of Brazilian pop culture and recent history,” says Perks.
“It’s an important part of the country’s cultural psyche.”
Behind the Sun: Premio Marcantonio Vilica runs at HOME
from Sat 23 Jul - Sun 25 Sep, in partnership with Manchester
School of Art and Plano Cultural and is supported by CNI,
SESI and SENAI. Visit homemcr.org/behind-the-sun for more.
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SEPTEMBER
AUGUST
FILM
Soundtrack
AUG
Co-curated by Barry Adamson
From Hollywood scores to American
independent cinema and European
arthouse movies, the soundtrack has
played a pivotal role in film history.
Functioning as a narrative device,
it has also accumulated its own
distinctive cultural currency and come
to be viewed as an art form in its own
right. Eschewing the celluloid jukebox
approach, however, Soundtrack focuses
on the art of composition. Featuring
a diverse selection of both celebrated
and lesser-known titles, it’s an aural
and visual journey into the twin realms
of sound and vision.
Find out more at
homemcr.org/soundtrack
THEATRE
A Complicite Associates co-production
with the National Theatre in association
with HOME
A Pacifist’s
Guide to
the War
on Cancer
TUE 20 - SAT 24 SEP, 19:30
SAT 24 SEP, 14:00
A whistlestop tour through life
with a cancer diagnosis, with songs.
In six unconventional stories we get
a glimpse of a reality normally hidden
behind poster campaigns, provocative
news stories and political posturing.
Expect unexpected anthems, questions
on mortality, shit loads of wigs, sequins
and probably bucket loads of tears in this
examination of the scariest word we know.
“Featuring a diverse selection of
both celebrated and lesser-known
titles, it’s an aural and visual
journey into the twin realms
of sound and vision.”
Commissioned and produced by Complicite.
Directed by Bryony Kimmings.
Book by Bryony Kimmings a
nd Brian Lobel.
Music by Tom Parkinson, lyrics by
Bryony Kimmings.
Preview Tue 20 Sep £10

“Bold, brave and
very brilliant!”
The Independent on
Credible Likeable Superstar
Role Model
”Artfully crafted,
tightrope walkingly
fragile and really
rather beautiful.”
Herald Scotland on
Fake It ‘Til You Make It
THEATRE
HOME, Young Vic & Theatre de Ville,
Luxembourg present
EAT.
DRINK.
RELAX.
Visit our first floor café to enjoy your
favourite pizzas, hearty brunches and
leisurely Sunday roasts, alongside our
new seasonal specials created using
the finest local produce.
Freshly-baked cakes and pastries,
great coffee supplied by local expert
roasters ManCoCo, delicious cocktails
and a specially selected list of
regionally sourced beers and wines
make our ground floor bar the ideal
spot to relax or spend time with
friends before you head into the
theatre, galleries or cinema.
The Emperor
WED 28 SEP - SAT 8 OCT, 19:30
SAT 1, SAT 8 OCT, 14:00
“His Majesty knew that a joke was
a dangerous form of opposition…”
Master of transformation Kathryn Hunter
brings to life an extraordinary fable
of corruption, avarice and the collapse
of absolute power.
A world premiere based on the astonishing
book by legendary journalist Ryszard
Kapuściński, from the team that brought
you Kafka’s Monkey. Hunter creates a
mesmerising cast of characters, all servants
to a despotic ruler on the brink of downfall.
In a kingdom obsessed with title and
tradition, the lowly and the loyal have
incredible stories to tell.
Written by Colin Teevan. Based on
the book by Ryszard Kapuściński.
Directed by Walter Meierjohann.
Tickets £26.50 - £10 (conc. available)
Preview Wed 28 Sep £10
“Ms. Hunter’s performance is
perhaps the most physically
remarkable I’ve ever seen
on a stage.”
The New York Times on Kafka’s Monkey
“Stunning –
a magical elegance.”
To Make a reservation:
Call 0161 212 3500 or email
[email protected]
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John Updike, New Yorker on
The Emperor by Ryszard KapuŚciŃski
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QUICK
GUIDE
TO THE
SEASON
Here are some of the highlights
from March to October 2016.
Check back on homemcr.org
regularly for all the latest
information, including the latest
confirmed titles in our weekly
programme of UK and international
independent films, talks, tours
and events.
COMING SOON
FILM
Art
HOME Projects/ Brought to Light
Until Sun 6 Mar
Open daily
from 11:00
P9
Season/ Crime: Hong Kong Style
Feb - Apr
The New Social presents an
Evening with Artemy Troitsky
Mon 7 Mar
19:15
P9
Music & Film/ Celluloid History Songs
with live score by Josephine Oniyama
Wed 2 Mar
AL and AL: Incidents of
Travel in the Multiverse
Until Sun 27 Mar
Tue - Sun
12:00 - 20:00
P12
Season/ Wonder Women:
Girlfriends
Sun 6 Mar - Tue 8 Mar
Exhibition Tour/ AL and AL: Incidents of Travel in the Multiverse (BSL)
Sat 5 Mar
14:00
P12
Season/ Always (crashing):
J.G. Ballard
Fri 18 Mar - Fri 8 Apr
P10
Fri 29 Apr
18:00 - 21:00
P15
Season/ Ikiru: The Highs & Lows
of Life in Japanese Cinema
Sun 20 Mar - Thu 24 Mar
P11
Gecko presents
Preview/ Imitation of Life:
Melodrama and Race in the 21st Century
Imitation of Life:
Melodrama and Race in the 21st Century
Sat 30 Apr - Sun 3 July
Tue - Sun
12:00 - 20:00
P15
Music & Film/ Harmonieband presents
Underground + live musical accompaniment
Sun 3 Apr
P15
WED 19 OCT - SAT 22 OCT
Created by Amit Lahav
HOME Projects/ Najia Bagi:
What Would Billie Do?
Until May
Open daily
from 11:00
P13
Season/ ¡Viva! Spanish
& Latin American Festival
Thu 7 - Sun 24 Apr
P16
Feature Expanded
Jun - Nov
Family/ A Cat in Paris
Sun 24 Apr
Exhibition tour: Imitation of Life (BSL)
Sat 4 Jun
14:00
P15
Season/ Pilot Light TV Festival
Thu 5 - Sun 8 May
P21
Call and Response: susan pui san lok
Thu 16 Jun
18:30
P22
Season/ Sexuality Summer School:
Love & Its Others
Mon 23 - Fri 27 May
P21
Preview/ Behind the Sun:
Premio Marcantonio Vilica Fri 22 Jul
18:00 - 21:00
P27
Music & Film/ The Membranes:
Dark Matter/Dark Energy
Jun
P22
Behind the Sun: Premio Marcantonio Vilica
Sat 23 Jul - Sun 25 Sep
Tue - Sun
12:00 - 20:00
P27
Call and Response:
susan pui san lok
Thu 16 Jun
Four male performers portray four
very familiar human beings, each driven
by a desire to care and be cared for…
in this visually captivating, intimate,
funny and moving performance.
Gecko has a reputation for creating
unique worlds, exquisite stage craft
and breath-taking choreography.
Their latest production fuses movement,
imagery and a range of choreographic
styles to create an incisive look at the
way we nurture and care for ourselves and each other.
Exhibition tour: Behind the Sun:
Premio Marcantonio Vilica (BSL)
Sat 3 Sep
14:00
P27
Season/ Jazz Goes to the Movies
Jul
P24
homemcr.org/institute
Season/ Brazilian Weekender
Thu 21 - Sun 24 Jul
P27
Season/ Soundtrack
Aug
P30
P22
P8
20:00
P8
P9
13:00
11:30
18:30
P15
P22
THEATRE & DANCE
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Manchester Theatre Awards
Fri 4 Mar
13:00
P9
Endgame (Theatre 1)
Thu 25 Feb - Sat 12 Mar
14:00, 19:30
P11
Family/ Shapeshifter
Sun 6 Mar
12:00, 14:00
P9
The Encounter (Theatre 1)
Wed 16 - Sat 19 Mar
14:00, 19:30
HOME from HOME/
Summer. Autumn. Winter. Spring
(Old Granada Studios)
Tue 22 - Sat 26 Mar
Sat 2 & Sun 3 Apr
Individual shows 20:00
Full quartet 14:00
HOME from HOME/
The Passion (Campfield Market Hall)
Fri 25 Mar
Sat 26 Mar
19:00, 18:30
P13
Smoke and Mirrors (Theatre 1)
Thu 31 Mar - Sat 2 Apr
19:30
P13
The Beanfield (Theatre 2)
Thu 31 Mar - Sat 2 Apr
14:00, 20:00
P14
Into the Hoods: Remixed (Theatre 1)
Wed 6 - Sat 9 Apr
14:00, 19:30
P14
Season/ ¡Viva! Spanish
Thu 7 - Sun 24 Apr
National Theatre Connections (Theatre 1)
Thu 28 - Sat 30 Apr
19:00
P15
Stowaway (Theatre 1)
Thu 5 - Sat 7 May
19:30
P20
Twelfth Night (Theatre 1)
Wed 11 - Sat 14 May
14:00, 19:30
P21
Double Bill/ Gutted & Late Night Love (Theatre 2)
Thu 19 - Sat 21 May
19:45
32 Rue Vandenbranden (Theatre 1)
Mon 23 - Wed 25 May
On Corporation Street
¡ VIVA! FESTIVAL
Film Season/ ¡Viva! Spanish
Thu 7 - Sun 24 Apr
P10
Theatre/ Derailed (Theatre 2)
Thu 7 - Sat 9 Apr
20:00
P17
P12
Theatre/ All In (Theatre 2)
Thu 14 - Sat 16 Apr
20:00
P17
Theatre/ Don Quijote (Theatre 1)
Fri 15 - Sat 16 Apr
19:30
P17
Theatre/ Chamaco (Theatre 1)
Thu 21 - Sat 23 Apr
19:30
P17
Theatre/ Weathered (Theatre 1)
Sat 23 Apr
11:30
P17
P16
P16
“The attention
to detail
extends to
all aspects
of this
beautifully
realised
production.”
The Independent
THEATRE & OPERA BROADCASTS
National Theatre Live/ Hangmen
Thu 3 Mar
18:45
Met Opera Live/ Manon Lescaut
Sat 5 Mar
17:40
Royal Opera House Live/ Boris Gudonov
Mon 21 Mar
19:00
P20
Family/ The Railway Children
(As live, filmed at the National Railway Museum)
Mon 28 Mar
11:30
19:30
P21
Met Opera Live/ Madame Butterfly
Sat 2 Apr
17:40
Fri 10 - Sat 25 Jun
18:00, 19:30, 21:00
P22
Met Opera Live/ Roberto Devereux
Sat 16 Apr
17:40
Now Listen To Me Very Carefully (Theatre 2)
Thu 7 - Sat 9 Jul
19:45
P26
Royal Opera House Live/ Lucia di Lammermoor
Mon 25 Apr
19:00
Family/ The Many Doors of Frank Feelbad
(Theatre 2)
Sun 10 Jul
11:00, 13:00, 15:00
P26
Met Opera Live/ Elektra
Sat 30 Apr
17:40
Beyond Caring (Theatre 2)
Wed 13 - Sat 16 Jul
19:45
P27
Royal Shakespeare Company Live/
Hamlet (As live)
Wed 8 Jun
18:45
A Pacifists Guide to the War on Cancer (Theatre 1)
Tue 20 - Sat 24 Sep
14:00, 19:30
P31
Royal Opera House Live/ Werther
Mon 27 Jun
18:45
The Emperor (Theatre 1)
Wed 28 Sep - Sat 8 Oct
14:00, 19:30
P31
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TICKETS & BOOKING
Box Office
Mon - Sun: 12:00 - 20:00
Online
homemcr.org
Main Gallery
Mon: closed
Tue - Sat: 12:00 - 20:00
Sun: 12:00 - 18:00
Call
0161 200 1500
Granada Foundation Gallery
Mon - Sun: 11:00 - 20:00
Concessions
Ground Floor Bar
Mon - Thu: 10:00 - 23:00
Fri - Sat: 10:00 - 00:00
Sun: 11:00 - 22:30
First Floor Café
Mon - Thu: 11:00 - 23:00
Fri - Sat: 11:00 - 00:00
Sun: 11:00 - 22:30
In person
Mon - Sun: 12:00 - 20:00
Over 60’s, under 16’s and
disabled audience members
Concessions are available on
theatre and film tickets for the
under 16s, over 60s, registered
unemployed, disabled people
and students (subject to
availability).
Student super advance and
registered unemployed people
A strictly limited number of
£5 tickets are available for
students and the registered
unemployed for selected
film screenings and theatre
productions, subject to
availability and on presentation
of a valid ID.
Group Bookings
School Theatre Bookings
Theatre 1
Groups of 8+, £2.50 off
per ticket, plus 1 free ticket
for every 20 booked.
Theatre 1
£11 per ticket, 1 teacher place
free with every ten students
(or as specified).
Groups of 40+, £3.50 off
per ticket, plus 1 free ticket
for every 20 booked.
Theatre 2
10% off all tickets, if you book
10 or more plus 1 free teacher
place per 10 students.
Theatre 2
10% off all tickets, if you
book 10 or more.
Tickets must be booked in
advance, not available on
£5 tickets or preview tickets.
Available weekdays only.
Must be booked in advance.
Not available on £5 tickets
or preview tickets.
Film
Groups of 10+, 10% off
each ticket purchased.
GETTING HERE
We are located on Tony
Wilson Place, First Street,
just off Whitworth Street West,
roughly opposite the Hacienda
apartments and a short walk
from Oxford Road and the
Deansgate-Castlefield
Metrolink stop.
HOME
2 Tony Wilson Place
Manchester
M15 4FN
By bike
Bike racks are available next
to HOME and the INNSIDE
by Meliá hotel. There are
20 racks available.
By bus
Buses 105 and 256 from
Piccadilly Gardens stop on
Medlock Street. Alternatively,
you can use the Metroshuttles, free buses that link main rail
stations, car parks, shopping
areas and businesses in the
city centre. Metroshuttle
buses run from Piccadilly,
Salford 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).
Visit tfgm.com/Metroshuttle
to plan your Metroshuttle journey,
or follow @OfficialTfGM for the
latest public transport updates.
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By Metrolink
Deansgate-Castlefield is
the nearest Metrolink stop,
which is less than five minutes’
walk from HOME. Check the Metrolink website f or times
and updates (metrolink.co.uk).
Metrolink is currently working
on improving and expanding
its routes, for information on
changes to services please visit
transformationinformation.co.uk
or if you’re on Twitter follow
@MCRMetrolink.
By train
The nearest rail stations are
Deansgate and Oxford Road,
which are both five minutes’
walk from HOME. If you arrive
at Piccadilly or Victoria,
it’s a 20-minute walk or a short
journey by tram or Metroshuttle.
By car
The nearest car park is
Q-Park at First Street
(next door to HOME).
HOME visitors receive a
20% discount on parking
(validate your ticket or
show a receipt from our
cafe and bar in the venue).
FUNDERS, DONORS
& SUPPORTERS
Sponsors
Bruntwood
Hong Kong Economic
and Trade Office, London
Innside by Melia
LWC
Manchester Airports Group
Q-Park Ltd
Thornley Groves
urbanbubble
World Duty Free Group
Corporate Members
Addleshaw Goddard LLP
AHR
Ask Real Estate
Auto Trader
DLA Piper UK LLP
EY
Eversheds
First Manchester
HFL Building Solutions
Neil Eckersley Productions
Richard Smith Bespoke
Slater Heelis
Smart Alex
The Manchester College
Project Supporters
Creative Europe MEDIA
Embassy of Spain –
Office for Cultural
and Scientific Affairs
Instituto Cervantes
Founding Patrons
Arnold and Brenda Bradshaw
Ben Caldwell
Meg and Peter Cooper
John and Penny Early
Jonathan and Carolyn Moore
Stephen and Jane Sorrell
Patrons
Andy Beaden
Richard and Joanna Bircher
Dr Martin Boulton
Sir Robert and Mrs Meriel Boyd
Georgina Amica Carpenter
Maureen Casket
Richard and Elaine Johnson
Garth Lindrup
Liz and Philip Shapiro
Susan Webster
Peter Wilcox and John Riley
Trusts & Foundations
BBC Performing Arts Fund
Beaverbrooks Charitable Trust
GMAC Development Trust
PRS for Music Foundation
The WO Street Charitable
Foundation
Wates Giving
FUNDed by
FOUNDING Supporters
OFFICIAL TECHNOLOGY PARTNER
design by modern designers
OPENING TIMES
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discovery
Pronunciation:
/ dɪˈskʌv (ə) ri /
noun
( plural discoveries)
[ mass noun ]
The action or process
of discovering or
being discovered
[count noun ]
A person or thing
discovered
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 4 FN. Charity No: 514719.
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