Following its first Orbit Festival in autumn 2016, HOME Manchester has confirmed the programme for a second event from 28 September to 15 October 2017, with venues including a caravan, a car park and the roof of HOME.
There will be new commissions including Javaad Alipoor's The Believers Are But Brothers and Daniel Bye's Instructions for Border Crossing, Fellswoop Theatre will première its latest production Palmyra, inspired by the destruction of the ancient Syrian city, and Manchester performance poet Lemn Sissay will present his autobiographical Something Dark.
The full line-up is:
- Bravado, presented by Scottee, 28 to 30 September
- The Backseat of My Car (and other safe spaces) and Hurtling, presented by Greg Wohead, 30 September
- Eurohouse, presented by FellSwoop Theatre, 2 and 3 October
- Palmyra, presented by FellSwoop Theatre, 3 and 4 October
- Rekrei, presented by Journeys Festival International, 2 to 4 October
- Instructions For Border Crossing, presented by Daniel Bye, 5 to 7 October
- Salt, presented by Selina Thompson, 6 and 7 October
- The Believers Are But Brothers, presented by Javaad Alipoor, 9 to 12 October
- Mobile, presented by Paper Birds, 10 to 14 October
- Bourgeois & Maurice: How To Save The World Without Really Trying, 10 and 11 October
- We Are Ian, presented by In Bed With My Brother, 12 to 14 October
- Lemn Sissay: Something Dark, presented by HOME and Journeys Festival International, 13 October
- How To Win Against History, presented by Áine Flanagan Productions, 14 and 15 October