Orbit Festival 2017 brings together innovative new work from theatre makers across the globe who want to explore our place in the world. Many of these shows come straight from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, exploring our relationship with the past, how we remember, the stories we tell ourselves and what it is that makes us who we are.
How do we navigate today’s world, forging and challenging our economic, political and social circumstance? What about our plans for the future and the threats to our ideals and aspirations we hold dear and hope will keep us safe?
Like you, these artists are extraordinary. They have their stories; all they need now is you. They want to talk to you about where we are now, where we’ve been and where we are going.
So join us for a journey through what it means to be human in these unstable times.
This year’s festival is sponsored by :
This year Orbit teams up with Journeys Festival International to present some special events celebrating the creative talent of exceptional refugee and asylum seeker artists, and sharing refugee experiences through great art and culture. #JFIMcr
In this festival
The Orbit 2017 Podcast
Orbit 2017 has arrived! To find out more about the inner workings of our annual celebration of fringe-theatre, HOME's Senior Producer Kevin Jamieson talks to…
Previously in this Festival
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Palmyra Post show discussion
After the performance on Wed 4 Oct, join us for a post-show discussion about the destruction of cultural heritage in the Middle East. The company…
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Rekrei VR Installation
Using VR and photogrammetric techniques this innovative installation allows viewers to explore recreated three-dimensional representations of heritage that has been lost around the globe.
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HOME and Journeys Festival International presentsLemn Sissay: Something Dark
A rare chance to see a dramatic reading of the acclaimed one-man play by celebrated performance poet, Lemn Sissay.
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Greg Wohead presentsThe Backseat of My Car (and other safe places)
An interactive true storytelling piece for one audience member at a time that takes place somewhere off by ourselves.
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Bravado Post Show Discussion: Working Class Blokes
Scottee has gathered some blokes and their victims to talk about working class masculinity - and you’re invited to speak your mind after the performance…
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Telling the History of Journeys
Join artist and performer Selina Thompson and Historian Dr Peter Gatrell (Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute, University of Manchester) to discuss the history of journeys,…
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Bourgeois & Maurice: How To Save The World Without Really Trying
The demented duo deliver their most hilarious, scathing and joyfully cynical show yet.
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Áine Flanagan Productions, Seiriol Davies and the Young Vic present presentsHow To Win Against History
A hilarious, ripped-up new extravaganza by Seiriol Davies about being too weird for the world, but desperately not wanting it to forget you.
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We Are Ian Post show DJ
After the performance on Fri 13 Oct DJ Darryl Marsden will be in the bar spinning Haçienda classics.
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In Bed With My Brother presentsWe Are Ian
We Are Ian is about our mate Ian, who was our age in the late 80s and early 90s Acid House scene in Manchester. The…
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ARC Stockton Productions presentsInstructions for Border Crossing
From the maker of The Price of Everything and Going Viral, Instructions for Border Crossing is an exposed gearbox of a political thriller. Blending Daniel’s…