The creative team behind the critically-acclaimed Romeo & Juliet reunites for HOME’s debut production in its new £25m city centre venue in Manchester.
Double Olivier award-winner Simon Stephens relocates The Funfair from the 1929 Oktoberfest to north west England and draws parallels with the political tensions and social uncertainties of early 21st century Britain.
The Funfair will be directed by HOME’s artistic director: theatre, Walter Meierjohann, whose sell-out production of Romeo & Juliet in Manchester’s Victoria Baths in September has four nominations in this year’s Manchester Theatre Awards.
Complete with freak-show, live band, and a big dipper, The Funfair tells the dark and humorous story of Cash and Caroline, two young lovers, whose agonising break-up is played out against a backdrop of economic and social hardship.