Following their acclaimed collaboration on Medea at the National Theatre in July 2014, director Carrie Cracknell and choreographer Lucy Guerin create a stirring new version of Macbeth. Beginning with Shakespeare’s text, the powerful and unsettling choreography weaves its way throughout Shakespeare’s supernatural tragedy. When the prophecy of three witches proclaims that Macbeth (John Heffernan –…
The Manchester International Film Festival, which launched in 2015, is set to take place from 3 to 6 March 2016 across the city, including venues at HOME, AMC and the Odeon Printworks as Manchester’s first city wide international film festival once again welcomes filmmakers and films from across the world to premiere their work before…
Taking the annual Re:play Festival to a new dimension, Home will be hosting the Push 2016 festival from Thursday 14 January until Sunday 24 January. Re:play became one of the key events in Manchester’s theatre calendar highlighting the best in fringe theatre from the previous twelve months. Now Push offers audiences the chance to immerse…
Macbeth and Endgame to lead early year programme Home has announced two classic plays as part of its 2016 programme with productions of William Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Samuel Beckett’s Endgame. First up is Macbeth, starring John Heffernan and Anna Maxwell which runs 2 – 6 February 2016 and reunites director Carrie Cracknell and choreographer Lucy…
Explosive new season of crime films from Hong Kong to take over Home Home is set to feature 20 different Hong Kong crime films over three months as the UK’s biggest and boldest celebration of Hong Kong Cinema to take stops at Manchester’s cinema and theatre complex as a part of a UK tour taking…
Classic documentary-cum-horror to be accompanied by new and unique score by Josephine Oniyama and musicians from the University of Salford. HOME, Manchester’s centre for contemporary visual art, theatre and film, is set to present the third instalment of Music & Film, featuring a new and unique score of documentary-cum-horror film Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages,…
Home is set to host a Big Family Day featuring special one-off events, creative workshops and family friendly theatre and film. The Big Family Day will take place on Sunday 13 December when the venue will open to families. The BIG Family Day coincides with the UK premiere of HOME’s first ever Christmas production for…
Home has announced that Delia Derbyshire Day 2016 will take place at Home on 17 January 2016, featuring music and visual art, celebrating the work and archive of Delia Derbyshire, a pioneer of electronic music who worked for the BBC Radiophonic Workshop and is perhaps most famous for realising the iconic, original Dr Who theme…
Home has announced that it is to host a major new solo exhibition of film, drawing, installation and live concert hall performance by British artist and filmmaker duo AL and AL. The epic sci-fi odyssey entitled Incidents of Travel in the Multiverse investigates a new era of scientific exploration, both real and imagined, navigated and…
Home is set to host an exhibition of new commissions and existing works inspired by the movie Safe. Set in 1987, Safe stars Julianne Moore as Carol White, a housewife in the San Fernando Valley, and explores her slow decline as she becomes increasingly allergic to everyday domestic products and routine activities, eventually moving to an…
