The new season at HOME Manchester will include a cross-artform Russia season, marking the hundredth anniversary of the Russian Revolution.
Walter Meierjohann—HOME's Artistic Director: Theatre—will direct Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya in a version by Andrew Upton. This will run alongside a new group exhibition The Return of Memory, exploring how contemporary artists respond to the new East, and a series of Soviet-era films.
HOME will collaborate with Headlong, National Theatre and Exeter Northcott on a revival of Duncan Macmillan’s People, Places & Things. For Christmas, Australian collective Briefs Factory’s Hot Brown Honey will present its hip hop political cabaret explosion and Little Angel Theatre will come back to present its own take on a classic fairy tale with Red Riding Hood and the Wolf.
Hofesh Shechter Company will return in early 2018 with a HOME co-commission, Grand Finale, which will be part-dance, part-gig and part-theatre.
Orbit Festival will return to showcase the best from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and beyond, and PUSH will bring in exciting film, theatre and visual art from the region.
Project X, a collective of 18 "emerging creatives", will take over HOME’s galleries, cinemas and theatres for a month with This is Human, a "programme of unusual happenings".