HOME, Manchester’s international centre for contemporary visual art, theatre and film, has announced its first full season from October 2015 to March 2016.
It features an array of new commissions, productions, collaborations and site-specific work.
Highlights include director Blanche McIntyre’s bold reimagining of The Oresteia in a translation by Ted Hughes.
- The UK première of HOME’s Christmas production Inkheart, adapted from award-winning author Cornelia Funke’s best-selling fantasy novel for children.
- A new version of Macbeth, reuniting director Carrie Cracknell and choreographer Lucy Guerin and starring Anna Maxwell Martin and John Heffernan, who together create a new, dance-infused version of Shakespeare’s popular supernatural tragedy.
- An epic, large-scale performance by leading experimental theatre company Quarantine, HOME’s Associate Company, which will present the world première of Summer. Autumn. Winter. Spring.—a quartet of work about our relationship with time.
- A visit by internationally acclaimed artist Philippe Quesne who premières La Mélancolie des Dragons in the UK, combining performance and visual art.
- The return of world-class dance group Hofesh Shechter Company presenting its completed trilogy Barbarians.