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Home Mcr new season announced with plenty of LGBT content

Home Mcr new season announced with plenty of LGBT content

HOME announced their new theatre season for 2019, with a continued commitment to bold international programming, nurturing new creative talent, and building-wide festivals and celebrations.

The season includes the acclaimed production of Wise Children directed by Emma Rice, whose work includes including Kneehigh’s Brief Encounter and Tristan & Yseult.

Choreographer Hofesh Shechter’s Grand Finale is back following a sell-out run at HOME earlier this year; Headlong are back with their new production of Shakespeare’s Richard III; and theatre innovators 1927 present their smash-hit The Animals and Children Took to the Streets.

Then in July, there’s Kemp Powers’ One Night In Miami, directed by former Royal Exchange Associate Director Matthew Xia. This powerful production imagines the pivotal moment in American history when Cassius Clay met his friends Malcolm X, Sam Cooke and American Football star Jim Brown following Clay’s heavyweight championship victory.

The season aso contains a number of LGBT related productions including;

Sleepwalk Collective

Kourtney Kardashian

Thu 7 – Sat 9 Mar

And

Soho Theatre & Tim Whitehead Management presents

Jinkx Monsoon & Major Scales: The Ginger Snapped

Thu 28 – Sat 30 Mar

Full details about all these are available via the link below.

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Published: 22-Nov-2018: (5161)

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