It’s the most wonderful time of the year and so on and so forth.
In fact, let us not mess around.
Let’s just go straight to Chris Rea. Ish.
Because this year, Mancs, Honorary Mancs, Visitors to Manc…
I’m going HOME this Christmas…
Why, you ask? Well I can’t wait to see those faces.
Whose, you ask?
Well everyone who frontline works there from Box Office to Bar. But of equal measure, I can’t wait to see some of the films and theatre productions that HOME Mcr are treating us to this yuletide season. Because, frankly readers? We’ve all been very good and have swerved the naughty list.
First up, At Home in the 80s.
I love three things (I mean I love more but for the purposes of the here and now, I love three):
- Being at HOME
- Christmas
- The 80s
And so those clever people combine all three with their season of films inspired by this devastatingly brilliant decade.
We all live for nostalgia at Christmas and these films deliver it in spades:
- Who Framed Roger Rabbit?;
- An American Werewolf in London;
- This is Spinal Tap (watch out for more on this on sister blog What the Projectionist Saw;
- Raiders of the Lost Ark;
- Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure; and
- Heathers.
We love the 80s and this is the only decade to bring us significant films.
Hey, who said that? HOME and I beg to differ. What about the era of slapstick?
Guess what, reader, HOME are bringing this to us as well with a season of Slapstick featuring the likes of Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton and The Marx Brothers in:
- A Night at the Opera;
- One Week/Sherlock Jr – a Buster Keaton double bill accompanied by live musicians HarmonieBand; and
- Modern Times – again, watch out for feature on film blog What the Projectionist Saw, coming to a screen near you…
For full film listings head to www.homemcr.org/cinema
I love slapstick and I love HOME. But is there a second cultural medium bringing the two concepts together? I hear you ask (you’re saying a great deal today, reader).
Why yes! HOME may be inviting you into their intimate grown up cinemas this Christmas, but they haven’t shut up shop at their theatre spaces.
For older children (and adults), the Dutch musical explosion that is Slapstick (anyone know how to do an umlaut on a laptop – anyway there should be two dots of the ‘a’), hits HOME, with an ode to the timeless comedy of Messrs Chaplin, Keaton, Marx, Laurel and Hardy, with five world class performers combining musicianship, mayhem and physical comedy to bring a show that will mesmerise from start to finish. Running from 13-22 Dec.
For the little Mancs, Honorary Mancs, Visitors to Manc, (let’s say between the ages of 2-4)there is the delightful White, a fully immersive show where the little ones sit on bean bags in a magical white tent and hear the story of two friends in a magical white world whose job it is to watch over the birds and their precious eggs. Sarah Jessica Parker described the show as
One of the greatest experiences of a lifetime and the best 40 minutes of my life.
and you can’t argue with SJP. Running from 13-23 Dec.
And so we have it, for all details of dates, tickets and the venue itself, head to www.homemcr.org
For Christmas, there’s no place like HOME (I know it’s twee, but it works so…)
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