Breach Theatre to Bring TANK to HOME Manchester This Spring

Breach Theatre follows up The Beanfield with Tank, which runs for three nights at HOME in Manchester, after its string of four-star reviews at last year's Edinburgh Festival. Performances will play Thursday 4 - Saturday 6 May 2017.

In 1965, an American scientist lived with a dolphin for 10 weeks to try and teach him to speak English - part of the Dolphin House experiments, a NASA-funded research project into human-animal communication.

Condemned by the wider scientific community as an elaborate circus trick, researcher Margaret Lovatt's lessons with Peter remain a highly controversial episode in the space race between the two superpowers at the height of the Cold War.

Breach's Fringe First Award-winning Tank rips this history apart to explore the difficulties of bridging cultural divides, the politics behind the stories we tell, and what happens when you inject a dolphin with LSD.

Commissioned by Battersea Arts Centre. Supported by New Diorama Theatre and Camden People's Theatre.

Performances run: Thu 4 May 19:45; Fri 5 May 19:45; and Sat 6 May 14:15, 19:45 at HOME, 2 Tony Wilson Place, Manchester M15 4FN. Tickets: £12.50 (concessions £10.50).

For more information, see here, and check out a short trailer below!

HOME, Manchester's centre for international contemporary art, theatre, film and books, opened its doors over the 2015 May Bank Holiday weekend. Designed by Dutch architects Mecanoo and featuring a 500-seat theatre, a 150-seat flexible theatre, a 500m2, 4m high gallery space, five cinema screens, digital production and broadcast facilities, a café bar and restaurant, HOME's theatres are a platform for questioning and ambitious artistic projects that involve audiences with new and extraordinary theatrical experiences. The international contemporary visual art programme is dedicated to presenting new commissions by emerging and established artists of regional, national and international significance, with a bold, proactive policy of visual, innovative storytelling with the ability to experiment and explore, probe and provoke, creating a distinct experience for both artists and audiences. HOME's five cinemas showcase the very best in contemporary and classic cinema, screening works by artists and filmmakers both established and new. HOME is a centre for co-production, talent development and artistic creation, dedicated to learning, for people of all ages. A place for new work and playful ideas; of festivals and commissions; of artists and of audience engagement. The patrons of HOME are Danny Boyle, National Theatre Artistic Director Nicholas Hytner, actress SurAnne Jones, playwright and poet Jackie Kay MBE, artists Rosa Barba and Phil Collins, filmmaker Asif Kapadia, and actress and author Meera Syal CBE. Following Tank, HOME stages Jack Rooke: Good Grief presented by Soho Theatre & Jack Rooke (17-19 May); Kieran Hurley's Heads Up presented by Show & Tell (18-20 May); Rose by Martin Sherman, starring Dame Janet Suzman (25 May-10 June); Operation Black Antler presented by Blast Theory and Hydrocracker (7-17 June); The Wedding presented by Gecko (12-16 Sept); People, Places & Things presented by Headlong, National Theatre, HOME, and the Northcott Theatre, Exeter (22 Sept-7 Oct); and Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov directed by Walter Meierjohann (3-25 Nov). www.homemcr.org | @HOME_mcr

BREACH creates politically engaged, formally innovative live performances that cross disciplines and mash up different media. A collaboration between theatre-makers and a video artist, Breach has been described as "a young company with a strong creative identity" by The Stage. The company won the 2015 Total Theatre award for an Emerging Artist or Company for The Beanfield, their debut production, which the company made while the company were all students at Warwick University, and which ran at HOME in 2016. www.facebook.com/breachtheatre | @breachtheatre