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MARch 16

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Tickets £22.50 - £10Conc. available

UK PREMIERE

International hit La Mélancolie des Dragons heads to HOME for its UK premiere.

The poetic and playful story of a band of long-haired metalheads on a quest to build a hard-rock amusement park, La Mélancolie des Dragons is a breathtaking blend of theatre and visual art from our 2015 international guest artist, Philippe Quesne, the artistic director of Nanterre-Amandiers Theatre in Paris. Featuring a car, a dog, classic rock, medieval recorders and a snowy stage, it’s a visually stunning mix of imagination, music, and charming (and undeniably French) humour.

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Nanterre-Amandiers presents

La Mélancolie des Dragons.THU 1 - SAT 3 OCT

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Nanterre-Amandiers, centre dramatique national is supported by Institut Français for its international tours.

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Conceived, directed and designed by HOME’s 2015 international guest artist, Philippe Quesne.

It’s been a tremendous few months since our official opening in May where we welcomed thousands of people into HOME. For our new season, we present the work of some of the most distinctive companies, directors and writers working today.

In our new season, we cross 2,500 years to present the work of playwrights who defined the history of theatre and we invite highly original theatre makers to tell stories in their own unique style.

Aeschylus’ epic of murder and revenge The Oresteia is brought to life with 56 local volunteers playing the chorus, the voice of the city. The Young Vic’s Macbeth - starring the luminous Anna Maxwell Martin - fuses contemporary dance with Shakespeare’s iconic prose. And Samuel Beckett finds humour in the darkest places in his classic of modern theatre, Endgame.

France’s most celebrated directorial talent Philippe Quesne brings his international hit La Mélancolie des Dragons to HOME for its UK premiere. Like a graphic novel burst into life, 1927 present Golem, fresh for its sell out run in the West End.

I am also delighted to welcome two artists for whom I hold great respect. Choreographer Hofesh Shechter returns with

his completed trilogy barbarians and Complicite’s Simon McBurney brings his Edinburgh sensation The Encounter, which features ground-breaking audio technology and storytelling wizardry.

In the New Year, we celebrate Greater Manchester’s most exciting theatre companies and performers with PUSH Festival (formerly Re:play) and our site-specific HOME from HOME strand continues with our associate company Quarantine’s Summer. Autumn. Winter. Spring. and The Passion from Streetwise Opera.

As Christmas approaches, we invite all ages to see the UK Premiere of Inkheart, an adaptation of Cornelia Funke’s bestselling young adult novel. At the heart of this thrilling adventure, filled with charm and wit, is a celebration of the power of stories, ideas and the imagination. Just like HOME.

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The Oresteia.FRI 23 OCT - SAT 14 NOV

Terrible secrets are handed down through the generations in a bloody chain of murder and revenge. The Oresteia, the first great work of theatre written two and a half thousand years ago, is as gripping and relevant as it ever was. Where is justice in a landscape of blood? Taking the translation by one of the great poets of the twentieth century, Ted Hughes, this swift-moving, newly cut version condenses Aeschylus’ epic trilogy into one play.

HOME welcomes director Blanche McIntyre (Best Director TMA 2013 UK Theatre Awards; Critics’ Circle Most Promising Newcomer Award), with an ensemble of actors playing multiple roles that cross generations and genders.

The central role of the chorus – the voice of the citizens – will be taken by the people of Manchester in this stunning new production of Aeschylus’ masterpiece.

Created and presented by 1927

Golem.WED 7 - SAT 17 OCT

Like a giant graphic novel burst into life, 1927 invites you to take a step through the looking glass into a dark and fantastical tale of an extraordinary, ordinary man. Fresh from a sell-out run at London’s Young Vic, with a host of five star reviews from critics from Berlin to London to Sydney, Golem blends stunningly original animation with entrancing music and live performance. And it explores one of the great questions of the modern world – who or what is in control of our technologies?

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Tickets £29.50 - £10Conc. available

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Also see our season of films from the Weimar Republic, From Caligari to Hitler. homemcr.org/weimar-cinema

Tickets £29.50 - £10Conc. available

Previews 23 Oct (£10) 24, 26, 27 Oct (£12.50)

Accessible performances:Audio Described + Touch Tour: Thu 5 Nov, 19:30 Caption Subtitled: Wed 11 Nov, 19:30BSL Interpreted: Fri 13 Nov, 19:30

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Accessible performances:Caption Subtitled: Tue 13 Nov, 19:30Audio Described + Touch Tour:   Wed 14 Nov, 19:30BSL Interpreted:  Thu 15 Nov, 19:30

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Directed by Suzanne Andrade.Film, animation & design by Paul Barritt.

Translated by Ted Hughes. Directed by Blanche McIntyre.

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BarbariansA TRILOGY BY HOFESH SHECHTER.THU 28 - SAT 30 JAN

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Tickets £18, £15, £12, £10Conc. available

Age guidance 14+: contains nudity and explicit lyrics

Following his sell-out performances of tHE bAD at HOME in April 2015, the infinitely unpredictable Shechter returns to present a sparse world for three wildly different takes on intimacy, passion  and the banality of love.

Revealing his choreography at its most elegant and intimate, the highly acclaimed and perturbing the barbarians in love opens the evening. Trembling with emotion residing within order, six white-clad figures move as one to the strains of an ecclesiastic baroque score. What follows, as two very different works unfold, is a volatile explosion of dubstep grooves in tHE bAD – at once joyous and trance-like – and a poignant duet which together complete an evening showcasing the singular and wry voice of their creator and the versatility and talent of his individual dancers.

HOME presents

PUSH FESTIVAL.TUE 12 - SAT 23 JAN

The full PUSH Festival line up and schedule will be announced on our website in November.

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Re:play Festival is reborn! Greater Manchester is home to some of the most exciting and vibrant artists and companies who make work that thrills, excites and challenges audiences.PUSH Festival will be a chance for you to immerse yourself in two weeks’ worth of new and extraordinary theatrical experiences made by these fantastic theatre makers, some never seen before and some that demand to be seen again. Presented in the intimate environment of HOME’s Theatre 2 space, this is a chance for you to support companies who are making waves, asking questions and delivering explosive experiences. Wrapped around a packed performance schedule will also be a host of workshops and discussions led by the companies themselves, as well as by leading practitioners from around the country.

Co-commissioned by Sadler’s Wells London, Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, Théâtre de la Ville – Paris, Berliner Festspiele – Foreign Affairs, Maison de la Danse- Lyon, Festival d’Avignon, HOME Manchester, Festspielhaus, St Pölten (including a working residency – the barbarians in love) and Hessisches Staatsballett, Staaststheater Darmstadt / Wiesbaden (including a working residency).

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Inkheart.FRI 4 DEC - SAT 9 JAN

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10:00 School Performance

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Tickets £33 - £10All child tickets £10Preview 4 Dec £15

Accessible performances:Caption Subtitled: Fri 18 Dec, 19:00 BSL Interpreted: Sat 19 Dec, 14:15 Audio Described + Touch Tour: Mon 21 Dec, 19:00

Age guidance 8+

Child tickets: £10 all seats, all shows.

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Directed by Walter Meierjohann. Adapted from the novel by Cornelia Funke by Stephen Sharkey and Walter Meierjohann.

UK PREMIERE

This Christmas, HOME presents Inkheart, adapted from Cornelia Funke’s brilliant, worldwide best-selling fantasy adventure novel for children. Books can take us to a different world – but what happens if that world is full of dark magic and ferocious and forbidding villains, where secrets are revealed and stories come alive?

Join our hero, Meggie, as she finds herself bang in the middle of the kind of adventure she’s only ever read about in books. Thrust into an epic battle with the baddest of bad guys, will Meggie and her team of unconventional allies be able to stay one step ahead and keep those they love safe from danger?

Inkheart leaps from page to stage in this funny, thrilling and action-packed UK premiere for families. HOME Artistic Director: Theatre, Walter Meierjohann, collaborating with writer Stephen Sharkey and a distinguished international creative team, including award-winning designer Stéphane Laimé, create a breathtaking visual world that vividly blurs the boundaries between real life and fiction.

Join us on our Big Family Day on Sun 13 Dec, a day for the whole family packed with creative workshops, films and a visit from Inkheart author, Cornelia Funke.

“THIS cHRISTMAS, WHAT IF EVERY BOOK YOU READ… BECAME REAL?”

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HOME and Citizens Theatre, Glasgow present

EndgameBY SAMUEL BECKETT.THU 25 FEB - SAT 12 MAR

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. They pass their days in a filthy, bare room, caught in a loop of futile routines. Their endless and brutal verbal jousting match is punctured only by the nostalgic reminiscing of Hamm’s parents, reduced to living in rubbish bins.

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.

A Young Vic, Birmingham Repertory Theatre and HOME co-production in association with Lucy Guerin Inc.

macbeth.TUE 2 - SAT 6 FEB

John Heffernan (Oppenheimer;Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell)and Anna Maxwell Martin (South Riding; Poppy Shakespeare) lead the company in Carrie Cracknell and Lucy Guerin’s ambitious new staging of Macbeth.

When the prophecy of three witches proclaims that Macbeth is destined to become the King of Scotland, he and Lady Macbeth embark upon a murderous journey of power, treachery, paranoia, betrayal and suicide. Beginning with Shakespeare’s text, the powerful and unsettling choreography weaves its way throughout the story, culminating in an unforgettable final act where words falter and finally give way.

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Tickets £29.50 - £10Preview 25 Feb £10Conc. available

homemcr.org/macbeth

Tickets £29.50 - £10Conc. available

Accessible performances:Caption Subtitled: Thu 3 Mar, 19:30 Audio Described + Touch Tour: Sat 5 Mar, 19:30BSL Interpreted: Thu 10 Mar, 19:30

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Accessible performances:Caption Subtitled: Wed 3 Feb, 19:30Audio Described + Touch Tour: Thu 4 Feb, 19:30BSL Interpreted: Sat 6 Feb, 19:30

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Directed by Carrie Cracknell and Lucy Guerin. Written by Samuel Beckett.

Directed by Dominic Hill.

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Quarantine presents, in co-production with HOME, Contact and SICK! Festival

Summer. autumn. Winter. Spring..TUE 22 - SAT 26 MAR SAT 2 & SUN 3 APR

world PREMIERE

An extraordinary quartet of work about our relationship with time, Quarantine’s hugely ambitious project is a piece of mass portraiture, spanning the human lifecycle and made with ‘real people’ in place of actors. In Summer. Autumn. Winter. Spring. each work stands alone, distinct in form, or can be seen as an epic, day-long marathon event…

Manchester-based Quarantine are a unique voice in British theatre – internationally acclaimed for their experiments with everyday life.

Complicite presents

TheEncounter.WED 16 - SAT 19 MAR

In 1969, Loren McIntyre, a National Geographic photographer, found himself lost among the people of the remote Javari Valley, Brazil. It was an encounter that was to change his life: bringing the limits of human consciousness into startling focus. In this solo performance Simon McBurney traces McIntyre’s journey into the depths of the Amazon rainforest, using binaural technology (3D audio) to build an intimate and shifting world of sound.

Complicite’s recent work includes Lionboy, The Master and Margarita, Shun-kin and A Disappearing Number.

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Tickets £14 - £5 (Individual shows) £25 - £15 (Full quartet)

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Tickets £29 - £23Conc. available

Accessible performances:Caption Subtitled: Thu 17 Mar, 19:30 BSL Interpreted: Sat 19 Mar 19:30

A Complicite co-production with Edinburgh International Festival, the Barbican, London, Onassis Cultural Centre – Athens, Schaubühne Berlin, Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne and Warwick Arts Centre. Supported by Sennheiser and The Wellcome Trust.

Headphones will be worn by the audience during the performance.

Supported by Arts Council England, The Wellcome Trust andThe Granada Foundation.

Summer. - Tue 22 MarAutumn. - Wed 23 MarWinter. - Thu 24 MarSpring. - Fri 25 MarSummer. Autumn. Winter. Spring. (full quartet) - Sat 26 Mar, Sat 2 & Sun 3 Apr

Full schedule to be announced in 2016, see website for details.

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Directed and performed by Simon McBurney.Inspired by the novel Amazon Beaming by Petru Popescu. Directed by Richard Gregory.

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Streetwise Opera and The Sixteen co-production, in association with HOME

The Passion.FRI 25 & SAT 26 MAR

world PREMIERE

A landmark site-specific production for Easter 2016. In the historical surrounds of Campfield Market, 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 Manchester’s much-loved Victorian hall. The vibrant cast comprises both The Sixteen and performers who have experienced homelessness from Streetwise Opera Manchester.

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Tickets £22 - £15

A limited number of free access tickets are available for people who have experienced homelessness.E-mail LD@streetwiseopera.orgor call 020 7730 9551 for more info.

This is a promenade production where the audience will be required to walk and stand throughout whole or part of the performance.

Supported by Arts Council England and Macquarie Group Foundation.

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