Autumn drama at HOME Manchester

Shakespearean tragedy, a modernist literary adaptation and an American drama will be the three main productions at Manchester arts centre HOME this autumn.

Shakespeare’s Othello (September 29-October 10) comes in a co-production by HOME, Northern Stage, Royal & Derngate and Citizens Theatre, and reimagines one of Shakespeare’s most enduring tragedies of jealousy, power and manipulation for contemporary audiences.

A new version of Virginia Woolf’s radical masterpiece Mrs Dalloway comes to HOME (September 24-26) on its UK tour, following the world premiere at Storyhouse in Chester. The immersive new stage version has been created by award-winning director Jen Heyes and Olivier award-winning writer and performer Kit Green, who plays the lead role and several other characters as memory, identity and loss collide in a vibrant celebration of life, love and survival.

Pioneering theatre company Headlong brings a new production of August Wilson’s Fences (November 3-7) as part of a UK tour.

This co-production between Headlong, Leeds Playhouse, Lyric Hammersmith and HOME marks the first major revival of the American in more than a decade. Set in the 1950s, Wilson’s drama follows Troy Maxson as the past keeps closing in and pressure builds, dreams collide and tempers flare – edging towards a reckoning that could reshape everything they know.

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