HOME Manchester is set to enchant audiences with a lineup of captivating theatrical experiences. Dive into a world of imagination with 'I Wish' by Le Gateau Chocolat, 'Miracle on 34th Street,' and the enchanting 'Coraline – A Musical.' These events promise to offer unique adventures, combining music, drama, and a touch of magic for the entire family. Whether you're seeking delightful family activities or a nostalgic holiday experience, these productions are tailored to provide unforgettable memories during this festive season and beyond.

Magical Theatre Experiences Await This Holiday Season at HOME Manchester

Please let us know if you’re coming to the tour on your own and we’ll arrange for a member of staff to accompany you. Guide dogs are also welcome on set, subject to an advance assessment to ensure a safe environment. Alternatively, we can arrange for your guide dog to be looked after.

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Touch Tour: Miracle on 34th Street

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A major New York department store is on the brink of collapse and their upcoming Christmas sale has to be a success. When their Santa quits at the last minute they’re left with a kindhearted stranger who is convinced he’s the real deal to save the day.

Miracle on 34th Street

If you’re looking for some fun family activities for the little ones this Autumn, join award-winning theatre artist and singer, Le Gateau Chocolat, as they transform into The Wish Giver for an unforgettable theatrical and musical extravaganza the whole family will cherish.

I Wish

That Love Thing is a story of courage and confusion, crashing together the world of ordinary love with the not-so-ordinary world of disability.

That Love Thing

Welcome to Blackpool! Home of fish and chips, hen dos, and the dulcet, nicotine stained, vocal tones of Anton Brine! This year, due to a multitude of court mandated appointments related to unpaid parking fines, Anton will be taking his legendary backing band ‘The Mingus Fingers’ on a non-stop, action packed tour of the UK consisting of dates in Liverpool AND Manchester. Anton Brine Presents: Sun, Sea, Sand, and Seagulls promises to bring all the magic of Lancashire’s best loved seaside town straight to your door… Not literally of course, but it’ll be much easier to get to than driving down the M55 in Friday rush hour traffic.

Anton Brine: Sun, Sea, Sand and Seagulls

Thatcher’s Section 28, which banned the “promotion” of homosexuality in schools, was the landmark legislation that silenced a generation, offered a global blueprint for LGBTQ+ oppression and galvanised a community. After the Act is funny, camp and unapologetically queer but also a clear-eyed exposure of the political playbook used to enact repressive laws.

After the Act

A fully BSL-led hip-hop gig theatre show, Follow the Signs is performed through BSL, rap, spoken English, movement, and creative captioning, to be shared and celebrated by Deaf and hearing audiences together. It tells the story of acclaimed dancer and choreographer Chris Fonseca: from infanthood when he became Deaf after contracting meningitis, through a school system unable to value his differences, into teenage years where music and dance entered his life, to meeting Raffie Julien, a mixed-race Deaf woman who’s lived experience couldn’t be more different…or is it?

Follow the Signs

Sisters-in-law Kay and Steph meet for the first time in years at the funeral of Robert McGregor, the most important man in both their lives. Having never been close, expectations are low, but nothing could prepare them for the revelations that lie ahead.

In this intricate and playful solo show, inspired by his involvement in the Egyptian revolution of 2011, and his experience of the counter-revolution that followed, actor and activist Khalid Abdalla (United 93, The Kite Runner, The Crown) takes us on a surprising journey into his own history, set against a cartography of seismic world events.

Nowhere

One lost poem, two rivers and three people connected by a single drop of water are the heart and soul of MLF audience favourite Elif Shafak’s superb new novel There Are Rivers in the Sky. In Victorian England, Arthur is born by the River Thames and raised in the slums until his brilliant memory and love of knowledge lead him to foreign lands. In 2014 by the River Tigris in Turkey, Narin, a Yazidi girl travels to Iraq to be baptised with holy water. In 2018 in London, Zaleekhah, a hydrologist, escapes the wreckage of her marriage in a houseboat on the Thames, until an unexpected connection with her homeland changes everything.

An Audience with Elif Shafak

Dame Harriet Walter, one of Britain’s most esteemed Shakespearean actors, imagines what Shakespeare’s women were really thinking in her fascinating new book She Speaks! Here’s what Gertrude longed to say; why Lady Macbeth felt she should be King; how Juliet’s nurse bemoaned her loss; why Ariel is anxious about freedom and what Cleopatra’s handmaidens really thought of her. Ophelia surprises us, Olivia surprises herself and Miranda glimpses the future.

Harriet Walter

Poets have written about the wonder and beauty of the natural world for centuries. From John Clare to Charlotte Mew, from Gerard Manley Hopkins to Lucille Clifton, from Paula Meehan to Jorie Graham, the poets collected in Carol Ann Duffy’s anthology Earth Prayers discuss the eco-crisis, remind us of our place in the eco-system and ask us to cherish the planet we live on. Carol Ann will perform poems from the collection, alongside some of her own sublime nature poems. She will be accompanied by the musician John Sampson.

Earth Prayers with Carol Ann Duffy

From terrifying films like The Wicker Man and Witchfinder General to the gentle eeriness of The Owl Service and Worzel Gummidge, ‘Folk Horror’ has become a thrilling genre in its own right.

Scarred for Life

In his passionately argued new book, The Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism (& How It Came to Control Your Life), George Monbiot explains how neoliberalism has become so pervasive we see it as an immutable law rather than the ideology at the root of our current crises. The major element allowing the rich to get richer while the poor stay poor. An inspiring speaker, George will discuss how neoliberalism became central to our societies and how we can push for changes that will lead to a happy, healthier and more hopeful population.

George Monbiot on The Invisible Doctrine

HOME and Community Arts North West will be hosting this meeting of the Arts and Migration Group at HOME in October. The Arts and Migration Group is a network of artists, freelancers, facilitators, and producers who have lived experience of migration. The group typically meets twice per year and hosts a celebration event during Horizons Festival annually. 

Arts and Migration Network meeting

In February 1958, BEA Flight 609 crashed on take-off at Munich Airport. On board were the Busby Babes, the young, gifted Manchester United team, along with journalists and supporters. 23 passengers died, 21 survived. In his utterly gripping new novel Munichs, David Peace explores the grief, the heartbreak and the resurrection of a club, a city and a country.

David Peace

Now 60, Neneh joins us to discuss her beautiful and deeply personal memoir A Thousand Threads. From a childhood in Sweden and New York with her artist mother Moki and musician father Don Cherry to Sierra Leone to London. From jazz to punk to hip hop. From family to friendships to love. Neneh will discuss her creative life, her collaborations and her navigation of fame in conversation with Booker Prize-winning author Bernardine Evaristo (Girl, Woman, Other).

An Evening with Neneh Cherry

WRESTLELADSWRESTLE, a new live performance by acclaimed artist and choreographer Jenni Jackson, explosively combines  theatre, dance, judo and pro-wrestling to transform T2 into a battleground of joy and reclamation.

Wrestleladswrestle

Two of Us ruminates on what may have happened. Truths that may have been spoken and traumas that may have been shared. Their apologies and eulogies, what was said and what was left unsaid. It is the story of two working class boys who loved each other.

Two of Us

Described by The Times as a “one-person music festival”, international non-binary beatboxing star SK Shlomo returns with award-winning gig-theatre solo show BREATHE: a rollercoaster love-letter to the lifesaving power of beats, bass and breathing.

BREATHE: a rollercoaster love letter to music by SK Shlomo

Olivier award winners, their shows are dark, peculiar and varied, with moments of black humour and immense beauty. This unique, Brechtian street opera trio tour the world playing concerts and theatre shows such as The Tiger Lillies Christmas Carol, The Ancient Mariner and the West End hit Shockheaded Peter.

The Tiger Lillies: Come on Down (The Nihilism Tour)

Transfiguration presents a trio of 10-minute dance films, focused on a series of defining moments into journeys of recovery from substance use. This will be followed by a Q&A session with Paul Bayes Kitcher (Co-founder Fallen Angels), Director Dan Thorburn, Leon Clowes (Performing Recovery) and Eve Steele (Playwright & Actor).

TRANSFIGURATION: Fallen Angels Dance Theatre + Q&A

On this, the year of our Lord 2024, it’s a brand-new, hour-long, stand-up comedy concert from your ol’ pal Rhys Nicholson. Only a coward wouldn’t attend.

Rhys Nicholson: Huge Big Party Congratulations!

Join the ever-tasteful, often hilarious, always readable writer and broadcaster Jay Rayner as he celebrates 25 years as The Observer’s award-winning restaurant critic with the publication of Nights Out At Home – LIVE, a memoir-in-recipes. Throughout his quarter of a century eating professionally in some of the world’s best (and frankly worst) restaurants, Jay has always reverse-engineered his favourite dishes; now he’s ready to share with you those brilliant recipes and his memories of the restaurants that served them.

Jay Rayner – Nights Out At Home – LIVE

Fallen Angels Dance Theatre

There is something not quite right about the house Coraline and her parents have moved into. The roof leaks, the wallpaper is peeling off the walls, the new neighbours are a little eccentric and her parents are so busy they hardly notice her at all.

HOME Manchester

May 15 - Jun 7, 2025

Coraline – A Musical

Dec 20, 2024

Touch Tour: Miracle on 34th Street

6 - 31 Dec, 2024

Miracle on 34th Street

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