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HOME Autumn/Winter Season

Kristy Stott, Theatre Editor
The Maids at HOME
Image courtesy of HOME Manchester

HOME Autumn/Winter Season at HOME Manchester, Manchester 22 September 2017 — 31 March 2018 Entrance is free — Visit now

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.

HOME Autumn/Winter Season at HOME Manchester, Manchester 22 September 2017 — 31 March 2018 Entrance is free Visit now

What's on at HOME Manchester

After the Act at HOME
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TheatreManchester
After the Act at HOME

The ever-brilliant Breach Theatre bring a new scorching protest musical that traces the infamous Section 28 anti-gay legislation.

from £15.00
Feel Me at HOME: A girls face is cradled by multiple hands. The background is bright pink, with different symbols poking out including a house, heart emoji and pyramid.
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TheatreCity Centre
Feel Me at HOME

Interactive and provocative, The Paper Birds’ new show looks at empathy and connection, and actively encourages the audience to use their mobile phone throughout.

from £20.00
I Am Not Your Negro
Until
CinemaManchester
James Baldwin and Britain at HOME

In this series of screenings, presented in partnership with the University of Manchester’s ‘James Baldwin and Britain’ project, HOME examines his ongoing influence on British culture.

from £7.95

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 patriotic name The Ancient Britain.

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What's on: Festivals

Crowd listening to music at Islington Mill as part of Fat Out Fest
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MusicChapel Street
Fat Out Fest 2024

Fat Out Fest, a Salford festival championing the experimental and the underground in music and visual art, returns with three-days of music, exhibitions and workshops.

from £ 0
Fireworks above Sessions House at night.
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FestivalsLancashire
Encounter Festival in Preston

Expect a joyous weekend loaded with outdoor performances, live music, hands-on family events, and of course, Preston’s signature Torchlight Procession and firework display.

free entry

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