PUSH Festival 2025 at HOME
Kristy Stott, Theatre Editor
Thrilling and challenging, PUSH Festival at HOME Manchester is always a highlight of the theatre calendar. A celebration of the North West’s creative talents, PUSH Festival 2025 will take place over four weeks – as HOME offers up its stages, screens and spaces as a platform for some of the fantastic work happening across the region.
Celebrating the North West’s emerging artists and creatives, we love that PUSH gives audiences the chance to seek out new and extraordinary performances, works and screenings – some brand-new and some so good that they demand to be seen again.
PUSH 2025 brings exciting new commissions across a range of art forms. You’ll find a new work-in-progress performance from HOME-commissioned artist Nathaniel J Hall (First Time), a brand-new piece of contemporary theatre from Girl Gang Manchester and an interactive quiz-meets-theatre production from Afreena Islam-Wright.
We’re also thrilled that this year’s festival features work from some of our favourite theatre companies and artists: Box of Tricks, Switch_MCR, Smug Roberts, Sam Buttery and many more. Additionally, 111 More Time, a verbatim piece exploring young people’s mental health, originally performed at MIF23, will also be presented at PUSH 2025.
Aside from performance and visual art, PUSH Festival also offers a range of masterclasses and workshops – all bringing great opportunities for artists and creatives to meet industry professionals and further hone their skills across a broad range of topics.
