Listen and watch carefully at HOME

Published: 24 June 2016
Reporter: David Upton

Footworks Theatre’s Now Listen To Me Very Carefully Credit: Alex Brenner

Bootworks Theatre’s all-action comic homage to one man’s obsession with classic sci-fi action movie Terminator 2, Now Listen To Me Very Carefully, was nominated for a Total Theatre Award in 2015.

When it comes to HOME in Manchester July 7 to 9, James Cameron’s original 1984 Terminator film, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, also screens on the final day of the show’s run. Bootworks concludes its stay in Manchester with a very different production, The Many Doors of Frank Feelbad, a show for children on July 10.

And, following critically-acclaimed runs at The Yard and the National Theatre in London, Alexander Zeldin’s Beyond Caring, a show which pulls no punches in its vivid depiction of the human cost of zero-hours contracts, comes to HOME later the same month.

Four people arrive to work the night shift in a meat factory. They meet for the first time. They are employed as cleaners, by a temp agency. They are all on zero-hours contracts. Every shift, they clean. Every four hours, they take a break. They drink tea or coffee together. They read magazines. They chat until something stirs, until isolated people get too close to one another, too fast.

The New York Times wrote that “Beyond Caring is beyond praise.”

It runs from July 13 to 16.

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