All manner of home comforts at HOME
●●HOME new Jan – Jul 2020 Theatre Season HOME Manchester have unveiled a stunning new season for 2020 with world and UK premieres, new HOME commissions, and famous names and artists making their breakthroughs.
There are works that are thoughtful, immersing, harrowing and funny.
The biggest, glitteriest and most glamorous show of the season is Insane Animals, a modern mythical musical.
This world premiere from the cult cabaret duo is a queer unravelling of past and present, fact and fiction, life and death.
There’s thrilling new work from Hofesh
Shechter Company with Double Murder, presenting two distinctly contrasting pieces exploring societal schisms and human kinship.
There will be UK premieres of two touring shows, the strikingly original and audacious play Amsterdam, Matthew Xia’s first production as
Artistic Director of Actors Touring Company, and David Hoyle’s lacerating and riotous Ten Commandments.
And HOME favourites Figs in Wigs return with Little Wimmin, a live art feminist adaptation of Louise May Alcott’s novel (spoiler alert: Beth dies).
There is an international first as Atresbandes and Bert and Nasi collaborate for the very first time with the tale of the fictitious artist Patrick Watson It Don’t Worry Me, Mind the Gap and Gecko Theatre’s intricately crafted a little space, Ad Infinitum’s powerful Extraordinary Wall of Silence, and Cheryl Martin’s immersive and moving One Woman.
Three festivals will showcase the most exciting theatre around, from HOME’s annual celebration of the North West’s creative talents, PUSH, to a packed programme for Horizons Festival marking Refugee Week and the very best emerging theatre companies in the country in Incoming Festival.
There’s also a host of shows by touring companies.
Jessie Cave returns after a sold-out run earlier this year with Cave Women, a work-in-progress with her sister Bebe, and the long-endured cabaret duo Jinkx Monsoon and Major Scales are Together Again, Again! Or take your pick from Poltergeist Theatre’s existential comedy caper Art Heist, the Technicolor coming-of-age tale Poet in
Da Corner, the hilarious homage The Strange Tale of Stan Laurel and Charlie Chaplin or Night of the Living Dead – Remix, a love song to George A. Romero.
Jess Thom, co-founder of Touretteshero, brings
Samuel Beckett’s Not I.
There are appearances from Mark Thomas, Roddy Doyle, Alexei Sayle and Adam Buxton and Manchester Camerata orchestra will perform alongside award-winning group Kabantu, a group of musicians who are reinventing global sounds from their multicultural home of Manchester.
HOME, 2 Tony Wilson Place, Manchester M15 4FN.
Phone: 0161 200 1500.