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This summer, follow us on social media as we head to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival with five co-produced shows. Looking ahead to September, we welcome back four HOME staples; Gecko Theatre with their new show The Wedding, the National Theatre and Headlong with West-End smash People, Places & Things, Gary McNair with new show Letters to Morrissey and finally the return of our best-of-Edinburgh festival, Orbit 2017.

Highlights: Theatre

Headlong, National Theatre, HOME & Exeter Northcott presents:
People, Places & Things

Fri 22 Sep 2017 – Sat 7 Oct 2017

An intoxicating play about surviving in the modern world. Following a critically-acclaimed, sold-out season at the National Theatre...

HOME presents:
Uncle Vanya

Fri 3 Nov 2017 – Sat 25 Nov 2017

Taking Russia's past as inspiration in this historic year, Walter Meierjohann's production explores the deeply tragic and deeply...

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This is Human

Thu 3 - Thu 31 Aug

This distinctive and ambitious series of events will challenge your expectations of HOME through a programme of unique...

HOME Weekend: National Theatre’s River Stage Festival

Fri 4 - Sun 6 August

River Stage returns to London’s National Theatre in Summer 2017, for five long weekends of live music, dance,...

This is Human: ReTreat

Thu 10 - Thu 31 Aug

Curated by Joshua Wilkinson and Teniola Dowie, ReTreat invites audiences to relax and reflect.

Course: Stage Directions 2017

Mon 18 Sep - Sat 23 Sep 10:00 - 17:00

Have you ever wondered what goes on inside a rehearsal room? Would you like to find out more about...

Gecko presents:
The Wedding

Tue 12 Sep 2017 – Sat 16 Sep 2017

In a blur of wedding dresses and contractual obligations, Gecko's extraordinary ensemble guides us through the struggle between...

Gary McNair presents:
Letters to Morrissey

Tue 12 Sep 2017 – Sat 16 Sep 2017

Gary McNair returns to HOME after his award-winning sell-out show A Gambler’s Guide to Dying. Letters to Morrissey...

Headlong, National Theatre, HOME & Exeter Northcott presents:
People, Places & Things

Fri 22 Sep 2017 – Sat 7 Oct 2017

An intoxicating play about surviving in the modern world. Following a critically-acclaimed, sold-out season at the National Theatre...

Orbit 2017

Thu 28 Sep 2017 – Sun 15 Oct 2017

Orbit 2017 brings together innovative new work from theatre makers across the globe who want to explore our...

Scottee presents:
Bravado

Thu 28 Sep 2017 – Sat 30 Sep 2017

Bravado explores the graphic nature of maleness and the extent it will go to succeed. Blood, spit and tears...

Greg Wohead presents:
Hurtling

Sat 30 Sep 2017

An outdoor performance for one with a cassette player and headphones that is re-made for each location in...

Greg Wohead presents:
The Backseat of My Car (and other safe places)

Sat 30 Sep 2017

An interactive true storytelling piece for one audience member at a time that takes place somewhere off by...

Journey’s Festival International

Mon 2 - Sun 15 October

Journeys Festival International is back celebrating the creative talent of exceptional refugee and asylum seeker artists, and sharing...

Bertrand Lesca & Nasi Voutsas presents:
Eurohouse

Mon 2 Oct 2017 – Tue 3 Oct 2017

Two performers – one Greek, one French – dance and shout, cry and sing, agree and disagree, about...

Bertrand Lesca & Nasi Voutsas presents:
Palmyra

Tue 3 Oct 2017 – Wed 4 Oct 2017

Inspired by the destruction of temples and artefacts in Palmyra, Syria, Palmyra uses images of destruction as a...

ARC Stockton Productions presents:
Instructions for Border Crossing

Thu 5 Oct 2017 – Sat 7 Oct 2017

From the maker of The Price of Everything and Going Viral, Instructions for Border Crossing is an exposed...

Selina Thompson presents:
salt.

Fri 6 Oct 2017 – Sat 7 Oct 2017

A journey to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. Selina Thompson’s solo show is about grief, ancestry, home,...

Javaad Alipoor presents:
The Believers Are But Brothers

Mon 9 Oct 2017 – Thu 12 Oct 2017

Writer and theatre maker Javaad Alipoor spent time in the digital realm of tech-savvy extremist groups exploring the blurry...

Bourgeois & Maurice: How To Save The World Without Really Trying

Tue 10 Oct 2017 – Wed 11 Oct 2017

The demented duo deliver their most hilarious, scathing and joyfully cynical show yet.

The Paper Birds presents:
Mobile

Wed 11 Oct 2017 – Sun 15 Oct 2017

Mobile is The Paper Birds’ second show in a trilogy about class in modern Britain. Made for audiences...

Upclose: Manchester Camerata at HOME / Aziz Ibrahim: Lahore to Longsight

Wed 11 Oct 19.30

Theatre 1 will be home to the pioneering Desi-guitar sound of Aziz Ibrahim, backed by the Camerata and...

In Bed With My Brother presents:
We Are Ian

Thu 12 Oct 2017 – Sat 14 Oct 2017

We Are Ian is about our mate Ian, who was our age in the late 80s and early...

HOME and Journeys Festival International presents:
Lemn Sissay: Something Dark

Fri 13 Oct 2017

A rare chance to see a dramatic reading of the acclaimed one-man play by celebrated performance poet, Lemn...

Áine Flanagan Productions, Seiriol Davies & the Young Vic presents:
How To Win Against History

Sat 14 Oct 2017 – Sun 15 Oct 2017

A hilarious, ripped-up new extravaganza by Seiriol Davies about being too weird for the world, but desperately not wanting it...

Motionhouse presents:
Charge

Tue 17 Oct 2017 – Wed 18 Oct 2017

Motionhouse’s electrifying new multi-media production explores themes of energy, using the company’s renowned fusion of thrilling dance-circus, enthralling...

Manchester Folk Festival presents:
The Theatre Ballads: Horse + Bamboo

Fri 20 Oct 2017

Horse + Bamboo depict songs of a great fight, a broken contract and a female smuggler. Each is...

A Revolution Betrayed?

Sat 21 Oct - Sat 25 Nov

We embark on a major new season of theatre, visual art and film, inspired by the 100th anniversary...

Manchester School of Theatre presents:
The Suicide

Fri 27 Oct 2017 – Sat 4 Nov 2017

Marking the Centenary of the year of the Russian Revolution, Manchester School of Theatre present Nikolai Erdman’s The...

HOME presents:
Uncle Vanya

Fri 3 Nov 2017 – Sat 25 Nov 2017

Taking Russia's past as inspiration in this historic year, Walter Meierjohann's production explores the deeply tragic and deeply...

Babel presents:
Underground

Thu 23 Nov 2017 – Sat 25 Nov 2017

Babel’s newest production invites the audience to experience the world of one of Dostoyevsky’s notorious characters, only really...

Pen:Chant Protest & Revolution

Fri 24 Nov 2017 – Sat 25 Nov 2017

For this protest & revolution Pen:Chant special, we’ll be presenting a special line-up of acts whose art is...

HOME and Contact presents:
Forced Entertainment: Real Magic

Wed 29 Nov 2017 – Fri 1 Dec 2017

To the sound of looped applause and canned laughter, a group of performers take part in an impossible...

Meow Meow: Feline Intimate

Wed 6 Dec 2017

International singing sensation and purr-fect post, post post-modern showgirl and star of the Olivier award winning show La...

Little Angel Theatre presents:
Red Riding Hood and the Wolf

Thu 7 Dec 2017 – Sat 30 Dec 2017

You all loved Wow! Said the Owl so much last Christmas that we’ve invited Little Angel Theatre to...

The Tiger Lillies: A Cold Night in Soho

Thu 7 Dec 2017

For this very special show, the Grammy nominated Godfathers of alternative cabaret The Tiger Lillies return to Manchester...

Briefs Factory presents:
Hot Brown Honey

Tue 12 Dec 2017 – Sat 23 Dec 2017

Hot Brown Honey is taking the heat up a notch and bringing the temperature to fever pitch –...

PUSH 2018

Sat 13 - Sat 27 Jan

Join us for two weeks of inspiring, creative experiences fresh from the North West when we will be...

Hofesh Shechter Company presents:
Grand Finale

Wed 31 Jan 2018 – Sat 3 Feb 2018

Grand Finale is the feverishly anticipated new show from internationally acclaimed artist Hofesh Shechter and comes to HOME as...

Winter Solstice

Tue 13 Feb 2018 – Sat 17 Feb 2018

Family, betrayal and the inescapable presence of the past reverberate through the UK premiere of Roland Schimmelpfennig’s razor-sharp...

Circle Mirror Transformation

Fri 2 Mar 2018 – Sat 17 Mar 2018

In a small town in Vermont, New England, five unlikely strangers come together in their community centre for...

Our new Autumn Winter Season

Music that leaps from Lahore to Longsight. Boundary-breaking theatre fresh from the Fringe. Orchestral dreams come true, and...

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