HOME Autumn/Winter Season

Kristy Stott, Theatre Editor

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HOME Autumn/Winter Season

HOME Manchester, Manchester
22 September 2017-31 March 2018

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The Maids at HOME
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Bold new adaptations and artistic explorations around class, power and gender course through HOME Manchester’s vibrant and explosive new Autumn Winter Season. Illuminating global discourses around feminism, sociological hierarchies and the struggle for power, there’s much to explore this autumn winter at HOME.

Providing a vital window into India’s independent film scene, HOME presents the second Not Just Bollywood season this September. Curated by the University of Manchester’s Omar Ahmed, the season will see screenings of classic and new titles from India’s independent film scene alongside post-film debate and discussion.

Exploring notions of identity and celebrating Manchester’s diverse community, Asia Triennial Manchester runs for two weeks this October. Now in its fourth edition, ATM18 is Europe’s only triennial festival dedicated to contemporary visual art on the theme of Asia.

The theatre season opens with a fresh take on two of Shakespeare’s most striking works. In a powerful and extraordinary fusion, OthelloMacbeth offers an alternative perspective in which the voices of Shakespeare’s most iconic female characters are brought to the fore. The season gathers even more theatrical momentum with Jean Genet’s radical, subversive and playful classic – The Maids – exploring the tortuous and tangled relationship between servant and employer. Running alongside the main house production of The Maids, is France Now – three contrasting performances, by three of France’s leading artists – offering a view of life on the other side of the Channel.

HOME welcomes four innovative female directors this autumn. Exploring sexual politics and social order, Jude Christian heads up the creative team for OthelloMacbeth and Lily Sykes brings Genet’s modern classic to HOME’s stage. Abbi Greenland and Helen Goalen of RashDash collaborate with Unlimited Theatre to direct Future Bodies. Colliding scientific fact and fiction to explore developments in technology, Future Bodies is the first HOME-grown production in Theatre 2.

Prepare yourself for the return of FilmFear this October. For six days and nights, HOME’s regular programme is complemented with a series of cult horror, Halloween favourites and extreme screenings, curated by Film4 Editor David Cox. October also sees the 12-day Orbit Festival deliver new and exciting work from theatre-makers across the world, to eager audiences in Manchester.

So get yourself over to HOME to discover new experiences, new art and new perspectives, from our city and right across the globe.

What's on at HOME Manchester

Freaky Friday at HOME
FamiliesManchester
Freaky Friday at HOME

HOME’s Christmas show Freaky Friday makes its UK stage premiere. A funny, heartfelt Disney musical offering a body-swappingly brilliant alternative to panto.

From £27.70
SÉANCE at HOME
Until
TheatreManchester
SÉANCE at HOME

Happening at HOME, SÉANCE transforms the interior of a shipping container into a Victorian séance room.

From £13.00

Where to go near HOME Autumn/Winter Season

Manchester
Restaurant
Indian Tiffin Room, Manchester

Indian Tiffin Room is a restaurant specialising in Indian street food, with branches in Cheadle and Manchester. This is the information for the Manchester venue.

The Ritz Manchester live music venue
Manchester
Music venue
The Ritz

The Ritz was originally a dance hall, built in 1928, has hosted The Beatles, Frank Sinatra and The Smiths and is still going strong as a gig venue now.

Homeground
Manchester
Event venue
Homeground

Homeground is HOME’s brand new outdoor venue, providing an open-air space for theatre, food, film, music, comedy and more.

Manchester
Café or Coffee Shop
Burgess Cafe Bar
at IABF

Small but perfectly-formed café – which also serves as the in-house bookstore, stocking all manner of Burgess-related works, along with recordings of his music. It’s a welcoming space, with huge glass windows making for a bright, welcoming atmosphere.

Rain Bar pub in Manchester
City Centre
Bar or Pub
Rain Bar

This huge three-floor pub, formerly a Victorian warehouse, then an umbrella factory (hence the name), has one of the city centre’s largest beer gardens. The two-tier terrace overlooks the Rochdale canal and what used to be the back of the Hacienda, providing an unusual, historic view of the city.

Manchester
Bar or Pub
The Briton’s Protection

Standing on the corner of a junction opposite The Bridgewater Hall, The Briton’s Protection is Manchester’s oldest pub. It has occupied the same spot since 1795, going under the equally

Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
Castlefield
Gallery
Castlefield Gallery

The influential Castlefield Gallery sits at the edge of Manchester’s exciting Castlefield district, an ideal home for thought-provoking contemporary art.

What's on: Festivals

A large mechanical puppet controlled by multiple people. Encounter Festival in Preston
FestivalsLancashire
Encounter Festival in Preston

Expect a jam-packed day of outdoor performance, live music, family fun – plus Preston’s iconic Torchlight Procession and fireworks finale.

Free entry
Get Outside with Bradford 2025: An image of a large man made pool with fountains in front of a historic building with a clock tower
Until
FestivalsBradford
Get Outside with Bradford 2025

Explore art in the moorlands, soundscapes through the glen and appreciate how the city has become totally transformed when you get outside with Bradford 2025.

Free entry

Culture Guides

Cinema in the North

A host of Halloween horrors, experimental shorts, plus pioneering black British cinema make our October Cinema Guide.

Theatre in Manchester and the North
Theatre in the North

Theatre this month bursts with contrasts - from bold new writing and Black History Month highlights to contemporary arts and reimagined classics.

Exhibitions in the North

Galleries around the North are gearing up for a new season of exhibitions - from iconic art prizes to smaller, artist-led gems.

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Music in the North

From corrupted shoegaze to experimental electronica, post-hardcore to Indian classical, these are the shows that should be on your radar.