HOME Theatre 2 Autumn 2023 Season

We are pleased to announce our inspiring and joyous new season for Theatre 2 this autumn! Sharing stories and experiences from Manchester and beyond, this is a season that explores themes of nationality, identity, belonging, new beginnings, home and sanctuary.

Image: ‘Toxic’ by Dibby Theatre & HOME, Credit: Lee Baxter

The programme includes several HOME co-commissions, new work from acclaimed Manchester-based artists, writers and performers, returning artists and those new to the stages of HOME and Manchester.

Featuring work from: award winning theatre company Rhum & Clay, acclaimed writer and director Peyvand Sadeghian, contemporary performance company Two Destination Language, Theatre Company of Sanctuary Curious Monkey, Manchester–based award–winning playwright Nathaniel Hall (for Dibby Theatre), comedian Mark Thomas, Young Identity Alumni Reece Williams and inspiring children’s theatre company Theatre Porto.

Previously in this season

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Theatre Porto in association with HOME Manchester, Eastern Angles and MLCP presents

Little Red

Join us this Christmas for a bold and highly theatrical re-telling of the well-known classic tale packed with music, dance and song.

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Reece Williams and HOME presents

This Kind of Black

It’s about growing up in 1990s Moss Side, a stone’s throw from conflict and violence. It celebrates a community held together by prayers, warmth and…

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English Touring Theatre, National Theatre Immersive Storytelling Studio and Trial & Error Studio presents

Museum of Austerity

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HOME and Tin Cat Entertainment presents

Mark Thomas in England & Son

A one-man play written specifically for the award-winning political comedian Mark Thomas by award-winning playwright Ed Edwards

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Dibby Theatre presents

Toxic

Manchester 2016. In the middle of a hot and sweaty queer warehouse party, two damaged hearts collide. He is white, HIV+ and drowning in shame.…

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Curious Monkey and Hamzeh Al Hussien presents

Penguin

This extraordinary story takes you on a personal tour of the places he knows best: - places full of music, dancing, fantasies and marbles.

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Two Destination Language presents

40/40

An inspiring, insightful and moving celebration of Katherina Radeva’s 40 years as a woman, a migrant and an artist. On a dance floor for one,…

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Peyvand Sadeghian and HOME presents

Dual دوگانه

One woman, two passports, and two names: Peyvand is British. Parisa is Iranian.

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Rhum + Clay presents

Project Dictator

Their choice? To die onstage - or off it. Beautiful and bonkers - it’s the clown show about totalitarianism we never knew we needed. Rhum…

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