The new season at Manchester's HOME features the world stage première of Paul Auster's City of Glass and Dame Janet Suzman in Martin Sherman's Rose.
Tony Award-winning 59 Productions will present Duncan Macmillan's adaptation of a third of Paul Auster's New York Trilogy, directed by Leo Warner. It will run from 4 to 17 March 2017 alongside an Auster-inspired film season chosen by the novelist, plus a book reading and signing event.
The first UK revival of Martin Sherman's Rose since its première at the National Theatre in 1999 will see the return to the stage for the first time in seven years of Dame Janet Suzman. Directed by Richard Beecham, it will run from 25 May to 10 June 2017.
¡Viva! Spanish & Latin American Festival 2017 will feature two UK premières from Spain: One-Hit Wonders by Sol Picó, the winner of the Spanish National Dance Award 2016, and Agrupación Señor Serrano’s Birdie, a multimedia performance using Hitchcock’s The Birds to explore the politics of global migration. Emma Frankland returns with the world première of Republica, presented alongside Juan Carlos Otero, Lola Rueda and Keir Cooper, in which a flamenco dancer, a guitarist and a stripper will aim to reclaim the forgotten history of events leading to the Spanish Civil War.
As part of ¡Viva!, HOME will also present scratch performances of Josep Maria Miró’s Smoke, directed by Walter Meierjohann, and Archimedes’ Principle, directed by Sam Ward.
Meierjohann will also direct a new production of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya in November 2017 as part of a building-wide Russian season.
Operation Black Antler will be a site-specific and experimental theatre piece for nine people at a time by Blast Theory and Hydrocracker, inviting audiences to enter the murky world of surveillance and question the morality of state-sanctioned spying.
National Theatre artistic director Rufus Norris collaborates with Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy on My Country: a work in progress, which gave people across the UK a voice to share their views of the country and town they live in, their lives, their future and the EU referendum.
Gecko returns to HOME with The Wedding created by Amit Lahav, Sh!t Theatre looks at the national housing crisis with songs, politics, dodgy landlords and detective work in Letters to Windsor House, Queen of Ireland Panti Bliss invites you into her gender-discombobulating, stiletto-shaped world, exposing the stories behind the make-up in High Heels in Low Places, Breach Theatre will present Tank, exploring the difficulties of bridging cultural divides, Soho Theatre present Jack Rooke’s Good Grief, exploring how we treat the bereaved and the state of welfare for grieving families, and Kieran Hurley's Heads Up asks what would we do if we found ourselves at the end of our world as we know it.
In dance, Boy Blue Entertainment brings a new hip hop dance triple bill Blak Whyte Gray, choreographed by Kenrick ‘H2O’ Sandy, and Rosie Kay returns with her new work MK ULTRA, inspired by the bizarre realm of pop culture mind control conspiracies.
Finally, following a successful ceremony in 2016, the Manchester Theatre Awards will return to HOME on Friday 17 March 2017 for another celebration of local theatre hosted by Justin Moorhouse.