What’s on > Theatre

We’re delighted to be back open. Our Theatre programme will be back from October, find out what will be on our stages this season here and read more about our new safety measures here.

We’re also continuing with our series of digital commissions, Homemakers, featuring brand-new works that you can enjoy at home, from Bryony Kimmings, Javaad Alipoor, Ad Infinitum and many more.

Highlights: Theatre

Our Sep 2020 – Jan 2021 Theatre Season

Tue 13 Oct 2020 – Sun 31 Jan 2021

Live theatre will return to HOME from October with a programme including World Premieres from RashDash, David Hoyle...

HOME launches campaign to highlight cost of empty seats to arts venues

The tongue-in-cheek campaign depicts a cinema seat “attempting” a number of alternative job roles – including barman, lighting...

Next 7 Days: Theatre

HOME Presents

Homemakers

Online now

Homemakers is series of new commissions inviting theatre and live art makers to create new works at home,...

Fane Online Live Stream Programme

August - November 2020

We are delighted to be partnering with leading production company Fane to help co-present a host of exclusive...

Dante or Die presents:
User Not Found: A Video Podcast

Watch Online from Thursday 10 September

An immersive video podcast about what happens to our online identities after we die.

RashDash presents:
Don’t Go Back To Sleep: The Lockdown Album

Tomorrow 19.30; Thu 19.30; Fri 19.30; Sat 19.30

The words of people during the pandemic are turned into song. Part concept album, part documentary.

BLACK HISTORY MONTH

Cheryl Martin presents:
One Woman

Watch online on Saturday 24 October

One Woman takes you inside the mind of a woman living with mental illness.

Louise Orwin presents:
Ur Favourite Scary Movie

Available online Mon 26 Oct - Sat 31 Oct

Using Foley-making and spoken text this is part horror dreamscape, part investigation into a cultural hunger for Horror

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BLACK HISTORY MONTH

HOME Sound Sessions: Dorcas Sebuyange

Tue 27 Oct 19.30

Dorcas Sebuyange is a Congolese multi-disciplinary artist specialising in drama, music and poetry.

Welcome HOME: What to expect when you visit

We're delighted to be back open and wanted to share some of the measures we have put in...

Where You Are: A Mini-Festival

Online from 29 October - 1 November

Join Ad Infinitum for a gathering of events, audiences and theatre makers connecting in the digital sphere. New...

BLACK HISTORY MONTH

HOME Sound Sessions: To!u × Aden

Fri 30 Oct 19.30

To!u × Aden make up a third of Manchester-based collective Pieces of a Man. As frontman & beat-maker...

Fane Online presents:
A Live Stream with Fatima Bhutto

Sunday 1 November 6.30pm

Fatima will deliver a speech originally written for the Sydney Writer’s Festival but never broadcast, reflecting on Islamophobia,...

The Javaad Alipoor Company presents:
The Believers Are But Brothers

Tue 3 Nov 2020 – Thu 5 Nov 2020

The digital realm of tech-savvy extremist groups, spies, journalists and fantasists weave together in this award winning show.

Director Surgeries with JMK and HOME -Now fully booked

Wed 4 Nov 2020

We will be running an open surgery half day for you to book a half hour slot with...

Stacy Makishi presents:
Homeward (house) Bound

Thu 5 Nov 2020 – Sat 7 Nov 2020

A live and intimate one to one encounter to be experienced on the phone. Homeward (house) Bound offers...

Bertrand Lesca and Nasi Voutsas presents:
The End

Thu 12 Nov 2020 – Sat 14 Nov 2020

The end of a relationship, a future without each other. A reminder and a celebration.

Beats and Elements presents:
High Rise eState Of Mind

Wed 18 Nov 2020 – Thu 19 Nov 2020

A fast paced, urban story about class and housing, frustrations, inequalities and the pointlessness of it all.

Daniel Kitson presents:
Dot. Dot. Dot.

Watch Online Tue 24 - Thur 26 November 2020

Daniel Kitson presents his account of six ridiculous and devastating months, experienced largely from a safe distance

David Hoyle presents:
A Grand Auction of my Life

Fri 27 Nov 2020

The past is creatively reinterpreted and a the future opens up as everything is up for sale.

HOME Presents

HOME presents:
The Earth Asleep

Fri 4 Dec 2020 – Sat 5 Dec 2020

Robin Richards & Clara Casian premiere their latest film and live score following Birdsong (2016)

Séayoncé: Déjà Voodoo

Tue 8 Dec 2020 – Wed 9 Dec 2020

The legendary Ghost Whisperer Séayoncé is lubed up to mystic it to you in this dragtastic séance.

HOME Presents

AMP presents:
House Party

Fri 11 Dec 2020

HOME's regular inclusive club night for music lovers, movers and shakers aged 18+ with different abilities and needs.

Sh!t Theatre presents:
Sh!t Actually

Sat 12 Dec 2020 – Wed 23 Dec 2020

Come shout-along, sing-along, dance-along, cry-along, drink-along to this adults-only celebration of Christmas Actually.

Le Gateau Chocolat presents:
Duckie

Mon 14 Dec 2020 – Wed 23 Dec 2020

Family-friendly glamour & glitz take centre stage in a classic tale of identity & belonging

HOME Presents

HOME presents:
Empty

Watch & Listen Online

During lockdown renowned Manchester-based composer, Jaydev Mistry, set out on a sonic adventure to find HOME’s unique soundtrack

Bryony Gordon: Glorious Rock Bottom

Wed 13 Jan 19.30

Bryony Gordon is a respected journalist, a number-one bestselling author and an award-winning mental health campaigner. She is...

HOME Presents

Push Festival 2021

Fri 15 Jan 2021 – Sat 13 Feb 2021

Push Festival is our annual celebration of the North West’s creative talents. For 2021 we're extending the festival...

Adam Buxton Rambles

Sun 28 Feb 2021 – Mon 1 Mar 2021

Join comedian and podcast host Adam Buxton as he talks about and reads from his upcoming new book.

Mark Thomas: 50 Things About Us

Fri 21 May 2021

Mark Thomas' 50 Things About Us is a show about songs, gongs, loot, tradition, wigs, nicking, statues, art...

Digital Channel

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Séayoncé comes to HOME for the first time with Déjà Voodoo

HOME Theatre Podcast: Black History Month 2020

Q&A with Jaydev Mistry about recording HOME’s empty spaces

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