Home Theatre, Manchester; Wednesday 31st October, 2018

They dance and smile, they leap around and shout with joy – they’re here to deliver a performance that the audience will never forget. But this may not quite turn out the way that you’d imagine it because these are no ordinary clowns: these are clowns that will cut your throat and shoot you in the head – this is a SHOW of a different kind.

Hot on the heels of the stunningly impressive Grand Finale in early 2018, the Hofesh Shechter company return to Manchester with their new creation: SHOW – yet another mind-bending conundrum of surrealist modern dance.Read More »

Home Theatre, Manchester; Wednesday 31st January, 2018

Images: Rahi Rezvani

Images: Rahi Rezvani

Images: Rahi Rezvani

Images: Rahi Rezvani

Images: Rahi Rezvani

Images: Rahi Rezvani

Images: Rahi Rezvani

Images: Rahi Rezvani

Seemingly inspired by the story of the resolute orchestra who continued to play even as the Titanic sank around them, Grand Finale is a spectacular piece of physical theatre which mixes the sultry hopelessness of despair with the feverish energy of joyous fun.

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Home Theatre, Manchester; Saturday 8^th July 2017

On the final night of Manchester’s Flare Festival of new international theatre, Belgian director Bosse Provoost briefly appeared in the foyer of Home Theatre and introduced himself to the gathered audience waiting to take their seats. He politely asked everyone to turn their mobile phones off and warned that the entire performance would be delivered in the dark.

He wasn’t exaggerating. It really was dark, very, very dark, it took the best part of five minutes for everyone to stumble their way in and find a seat without falling over each other. This simple task was made all the more difficult by the presence of the alarming spectacle on stage: what appeared to be a human body sat upright, all curled up with only the spine and back exposed, lit up with the only light in the room: a small flickering candle.

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Home Theatre, Manchester; Thursday 6^th July 2017

Created and performed by Belgian actor Simon de Winne, Baardeman is a puzzling dance spectacle centred around one man and his extreme dance moves.

This is theatrical performance stripped bare – almost literally. The audience is greeted by a man sat beside the stage in his underwear. He seems fairly relaxed. Eventually he steps forward and begins the show. With no accompanying music or sound effects, he begins to unleash the kind of dance moves that would probably result in an arrest and some form of co-ordinated social care intervention by numerous government authorities, rather than just a removal from the premises by an impatient bouncer.Read More »

Home Theatre, Manchester; Wednesday 3^rd May 2017.

If you’re confident that, right now, no one else is looking at your screen, do a Google search for “MK Ultra”.

What you’ll find is rather quite disturbing. It seems that the American government was up to no good back in the 1950s, devising hideous methods of mind control in order to overpower and subjugate ordinary people. Read More »