Manchester experimental theatre company Quarantine has been appointed associate company at HOME, Manchester’s new international centre for contemporary theatre, film and visual art.
Regarded as being at the cutting-edge of the alternative British theatre scene since it was established in 1998 by artistic directors Richard Gregory and Renny O’Shea and designer Simon Banham, Quarantine has been internationally acclaimed for their experiments with everyday life.
With performances staged at venues in the UK and across the world, ranging from private homes to major theatres to a warehouse in an industrial estate in Salford, the company has made family parties, karaoke booths, cookery lessons, radio broadcasts and journeys in the dark for one person at a time as well as performances on stage.
As part of Quarantine’s partnership, the company is developing its new production Wallflower at HOME. It is a dance marathon in which three performers are challenged to remember every dance they’ve ever danced. Quarantine will be trying it out in front of an invited audience August 20-22 prior to its world première at the Noorderzon Performing Arts Festival, Groningen, Holland.
Quarantine is also currently developing Summer. Autumn. Winter. Spring., a large-scale quartet of performances taking place in Manchester in March and April 2016.