HOME theatre 2019 season

 

• HOME presents a new season of over 20 shows including Emma Rice’s West End Smash Hit Wise Children, 1927’s The Animals and Children Took to the Streets, acclaimed boxing drama One Night in Miami and Headlong’s Shakespeare’s Richard III
• HOME announces a continued commitment to supporting artists to expand their practice and reach new audiences with new World Premiere productions from Scottee, Javaad Alipoor and Liz Richardson
• Building-wide celebrations with landmark theatre projects at their heart, including the 25th annual Viva Festival
• Internationally renowned artists and companies including Hofesh Shechter, The Tiger Lillies, Nassim Soliemanpour and Senior Serrano

Today HOME announced their new theatre season for 2019, with a continued commitment to bold international programming, nurturing new creative talent, and building-wide festivals and celebrations.

The season includes the acclaimed production of Wise Children directed by Emma Rice, whose work includes including Kneehigh’s Brief Encounter and Tristan & Yseult. Choreographer Hofesh Shechter’s Grand Finaleis back following a sell-out run at HOME earlier this year; Headlong are back with their new production of Shakespeare’s Richard III; and theatre innovators 1927 present their smash-hit The Animals and Children Took to the Streets. Then in July, there’s Kemp Powers’ One Night In Miami, directed by former Royal Exchange Associate Director Matthew Xia. This powerful production imagines the pivotal moment in American history when Cassius Clay met his friends Malcolm X, Sam Cooke and American Football star Jim Brown following Clay’s heavyweight championship victory.

2019 marks the beginning of a new phase for HOME, where there will be a renewed commitment to not just producing new work, but also growing our collaborations with exciting artists. This season HOME supports World Premieres by Scottee, Javaad Alipoor and Liz Richardson. Javaad’s production Rich Kids of Tehran will be his first new commission since his landmark The Believers Are But Brothers brought him to national attention. Scottee’s new show Class will be his first show at the midscale, opening in HOME’s larger Theatre 1space.

Dave Moutrey, Director and CEO of HOME said: “HOME exists to produce and develop new art and new artists, responding to our place in the city and the world. Across the next year, starting with Liz, Scottee and Javaad, we will embark on a new creative direction. By collaborating with a generation of artists and theatre-makers to create a fresh canon of work, we want to reach new audiences, help develop new cross-art form practice and tell new stories.”

As well as World Premiere productions developed with HOME, there is a carefully curated programme of new work featuring celebrated emerging artists and award-winning shows from international festivals. It includes Bertrand Lesca & Nasi Voutsas’s new production One,Iman Qureshi’sPapatango Prize winning play The Funeral Director, and a return of Scottee’s hit Fat Blokes.There are also acclaimed Fringe First winnerswith Breach Theatre’s It’s True, It’s True, It’s True, and Dressedby This Egg.

2019 will feature a vibrant programme of building-wide festivals and seasons which include major productions in the theatres. In April HOME’s annual ¡Viva! Festival of Spanish and Latin American art returns for a 25th year. It features the HOME-commissioned Kingdomby award-winning Catalan company Senor Serrano. HOME will also mark Refugee Week, with a mixed programme including Iranian artist Nassim Soleimanpour’s production Nassim.

Dave Moutrey added: “I believe HOME is at its most impactful when the work on our stages connects with the programme in our cinemas and galleries. In 2019, landmark theatre events sit at the heart of building-wide celebrations, bringing together artists and communities from our region and around the world. !Viva! has added resonance this year with such uncertain times in Europe. This festival promises to be an artistic antidote with another a joyous international cultural party. To mark the 200th anniversary of Peterloo in summer 2019, we’re planning a special programme exploring the timeless interaction between music and political protest. More details will be announced soon.”

Alongside all this, HOME will welcome the famous and the funny to its theatre spaces. Highlights include comedian Mark Thomas with his theatrical examination of our National Health Service in Check Up: Our NHS @ 70; RuPaul’s Drag Race favourite Jinkx Monsoon; and HOME regulars The Tiger Lillies takinga trip into the Devil’s Fairground.

HOME also offers a year-round platform where people throughout Manchester’s communities, especially young people, can engage with the arts. Highlights of a packed programme for 2019 include a new show from CAN Young Artists, and the return of National Theatre Connections Festival, bringing together some of the most exciting writers in the country with the theatre makers of tomorrow.

Wise Children present

Wise Children

Tue 26 Feb – Sat 2 Mar

Directed by Emma Rice

Homemcr.org/wise-children

Tickets £10 – £29 (Concession from £5)

Age 14+

Tue 26 Feb – Sat 2 Mar, 19:30

Thu 28 Feb & Sat 2 Mar, 14:00

 

Mark Thomas – Check Up: Our NHS @ 70

Homemcr.org/mark-thomas-nhs

Tickets £16 (£12 Concession including NHS Staff)

Age 14+

Fri 8 & Sat 9 Mar, 20:00

Supported by the Wellcome Trust

 

Sleepwalk Collective

Kourtney Kardashian

Thu 7 – Sat 9 Mar

Homemcr.org/Kourtney-Kardashian

Tickets £12.50 (£5 – £10.50 Concession)

Thu 7 – Sat 9 Mar, 19:45

Soho Theatre in association with Curtis Brown presents:

 

Jessie Cave: Sunrise

Thu 14 – Sat 16 Mar

Homemcr.org/Jessie-cave

Tickets £14 (£12 Concession)

Recommended 16+

Thu 14 – Sat 14 Mar, 19:45

Fri 15 Mar, 11am – Parent and Baby Performance

Runtime 60 minutes

 

HOME and the Southbank Centre

Scottee: Fat Blokes

Tue 19 – Sat 23 Mar

Homemcr.org/fat-blokes

Tickets £12.50 (£5 – £10.50 Concession)

Recommended 18+

Tue 19 – Sat 23 Mar, 19:45

Sat 23 Mar, 14:15

Running time: 1hr 5 mins

 

English Touring Theatre present Papatango Theatre’s

The Funeral Director

By Iman Qureshi

Wed 27 – Sat 30 Mar

Homemcr.org/the-funeral-director

Tickets £12.50 (£5 – £10.50 Concession)

Wed 27 – Sat 30 Mar, 19:45

 

Soho Theatre & Tim Whitehead Management presents

Jinkx Monsoon & Major Scales: The Ginger Snapped

Thu 28 – Sat 30 Mar

Homemcr.org/jinkx-monsoon

Tickets £25 (£23 Concession)

Recommended 16+

Thu 28 – Sat 30 Mar, 20:00

Running time approx. 80 mins

 

Arcola Theatre and CASA Latin American Theatre Festival

Thebes Land

by Sergio Blanco (Uruguay)

Tue 2 – Sat 6 Apr

Translated and directed by Daniel Goldman

Homemcr.org/thebes-lands

Tickets £12.50 (£5 – £10.50 Concession)

Recommended 14+

Tue 2 – Sat 6 Apr, 19:45

Sat 6 Apr, 14:45

Running time approx. 2hrs 15 mins (inc. interval)

Part of ¡Viva! Spanish & Latin American Festival 2019

 

Agrupacion Senor Serrano SCCL

Kingdom

Tue 9 – Sat 13 Apr

Homemcr.org/kingdom

Tickets £10 – £28 (Concession from £5)

Tue 9 – Sat 13 Apr, 19:30

Part of ¡Viva! Spanish & Latin American Festival 2019

 

CYA@HOME

Fri 12 & Sat 13 Apr

More information to follow

 

National Theatre Connections 2019

Tue 23 – Sat 27 Apr

Tickets £5

More information to follow

 

A Headlong, Alexandra Palace and Bristol Old Vic co-production with Royal & Derngate, Northampton and Oxford Playhouse

Richard III

By William Shakespeare

Directed by John Haidar

Tue 30 Apr – Sat 4 May

Homemcr.org/Richard-third

Tickets £10 – £23 (Concession from £5)

Tue 30 Apr – Sat 4 May, 19:30

Thu 2 & Sat 4 May, 14:00

Recommended 12+

 

Bertrand Lesca & Nasi Voutsas

One
Wed 8 – Fri 10 May

Homemcr.org/one

Tickets £12.50 (£5 – £10.50 Concession)

Wed 8 – Fri 10 May, 19:45

 

Hofesh Shechter Company presents

Grand Finale

Wed 22 – Sat 25 May

Homemcr.org/grand-finale

Tickets £10 – £21 (Concession from £5)

Wed 22 – Sat 25 May, 19:30

Recommended 14+
Running time 1hr 45min

 

Scottee

Commissioned by HOME

Class

Directed by Bryony Kimmings

Wed 15 – Sat 18 May

Homemcr.org/scottee-class

Tickets £14 – £16 (£5 – £12 Concession)

Wed 15 – Sat 18 May, 19:30

 

This Egg

Dressed

Tue 4 – Sat 8 Jun

Homemcr.org/dressed

Tickets £12.50 (£5 – £10.50 Concession)

Recommended 16+

Tue 4 – Sat 8 Jun, 19:45

Running time approx. 1hr

 

The Tiger Lillies

The Devil’s Playground

Tue 11 Jun

Homemcr.org/devils-playground

Tickets £20 (£18 Concession)

Tue 11 Jun, 20:00

Recommended 14+

Running time 1hr 50 mins (inc 20 min interval)

 

A Bush Theatre and Nassim Soleimanpour production

Nassim

Written by Nassim Soleimanpour

Tue 18 – Thu 20 Jun

Homemcr.org/nassim

Tickets £16 – £18 (Concession from £5)

Tue 18 – Thu 20 Jun, 19:30

Recommended 12+

Running time 1hr 10 mins

Part of HOME’s Refugee Week 2019

 

Nottingham Playhouse

One Night in Miami

By Kemp Powers

Tue 2 – Fri 5 Jul

Homemcr.org/one-night

Tickets £10 – £23 (Concession from £5)

Tue 2 – Fri 5 Jul, 19:30

Thu 4 Jul, 14:00

Recommended 12+

 

Liz Richardson, Josie Dale-Jones & Sam Ward in association with HOME

SWIM

Tue 9 – Sat 13 Jul

Homemcr.org/swim

Tickets £12.50 (£5 – £10.50 Concession)

Tue 9 – Sat 13 Jul, 19:45

Thu 11 & Sat 13 Jul, 14:45

Recommended 14+

Supported by the Outdoor Swimming Society

 

Breach Theatre

It’s True, It’s True, It’s True

Tue 8 – Sat 12 Oct

Homemcr.org/its-true

Tickets £12.50 (£5 – £10.50 Concession)

Tue 8 – Sat 12 Oct, 19:45

Recommended 14+

Running Time 60 mins