Brixton Home’s new season opens in January 2023 with one other multi-artform programme of labor championing experiences and tales which might be essential, celebratory, and intimately discover the world round us.
Launching with Rooster Burger N Chips, the second piece of labor getting back from the inaugural Housemates Competition which launched final 12 months to showcase rising artistic expertise.
Brixton Home will current the beforehand sold-out present by Corey Bovell for 2-weeks in the primary theatre to a bigger viewers from 31 January.
Set in South London, this uncooked and nostalgic UK storage music-infused story explores what it appears like rising up and navigating love and loyalty in a fast-paced world the place gentrification and restricted prospects are engulfing the world round you.
February celebrates love and friendship via the voices from the LGBTQ+ communities. Affiliate Artist Tristan Fynn-Aiduenu’s social occasion Queer Black Males’s Playground explores what it’s to be Black, Queer and a Man in Britain at present.
Adopted by Edinburgh Competition 2022’s hit present, Joyful Meal by Tabby Lamb, a joyful queer rom-com the place Millennial meets Gen Z and alter is throughout, enjoying for 3 weeks from 21 February.
From March onwards, a give attention to the indelible affect of ladies takes centre stage with Household Tree, the highly effective story of Henrietta Lacks is retold in a fantastically poetic drama.
Directed by Matthew Xia, Household Tree is a drama about race, well being and the atmosphere, and the unimaginable legacy of a Black girl whose affect on modern-day medication nonetheless reverberates at present.
Author Mojisola Adebayo received the Alfred Fagon Award 2021 for this daring and fearless play that re-earths this highly effective historic narrative.
It is a brand-new co-production with Actors Touring Firm and Belgrade Theatre Coventry, in affiliation with Brixton Home, and is enjoying at Brixton Home as a part of the nationwide tour. Household Tree heads to London, on 12 April till 23 April.
For youthful audiences, Magician Trixy provides a handful of magic tips that may amaze and excite, and Tangled Ft and Rowan Tree current their brand-new manufacturing Belongings for 6-11-year-olds.
Belongings, which helps younger individuals deal with concepts of belonging and imagining a brand new future, has been made in collaboration with youngsters who’ve skilled the care system. Informed with Tangled Ft’s distinctive mix of physicality, progressive design, and unique music.
The season branches out into stay music and movie with displays from TEAFilms and their famend intergalactic music occasion, The Shut Encounter Membership, this time, stay from the Home.
Audiences can get pleasure from two cinematic takeovers from We Are Parable, recognized for his or her legendary experiential cinema screenings, Expertise Over All the things celebrates their tenth anniversary, and Bounce Cinema will showcase a singular curation of impartial filmmakers and brief movies.
Creative Director and joint CEO, Gbolahan Obisesan says,
“This subsequent season of programming permits us to share and encourage our neighborhood with provides that encourage distinctive insights and new experiences.
These artists and their voices come to us at an necessary time, and their essential journeys will assist us outline new artistic alternatives.”
The Housemates Competition returns in July 2023 and submissions at the moment are open. After a profitable launch competition in 2022, which noticed two Housemates (Sonny Nwachukwu and Shakira Newton) nominated for Black British Theatre Awards, and the return of two productions (Issues I Can Chuckle About Now and Rooster Burgers N Chips) for a second run to bigger audiences, submissions open for brand new Housemates to take over the Home.
The competition submission call-out seeks all storytellers to share their tales and work with the theatre to carry them to life of their artistic areas and levels.
Open to all genres, types of writing and storytelling for efficiency. Submissions shut at 14:00 on Tuesday, January 3, 2023, full particulars might be discovered on our web site, right here: https://bit.ly/housematescall23
The theatre’s Take Half programme continues with courses and workshops that embrace Gowka Dance and Afro-Brazilian Fusion Dance, programs in playwriting and appearing for adults in addition to the Brixton Home Youth and the increasing neighborhood choir.
Full listings are hooked up and see the web site: https://brixtonhouse.co.uk/whats-on/
