HOME

Both breathtaking and hilariously relatable; we are all at times a little homesick. PUSH Physical Theatre—the multi award-winning team behind Orlando Fringe’s “best play” HYDE and the Off-Broadway sensation GENERIC MALE —create a visually stunning, acrobatic dreamscape where we long for home while aching to escape it.

Through a spectacular fusion of movement, illusion, and dynamic physicality, HOME unpacks the fragile, shifting nature of home. As the architecture around us collapses, and reassembles, we struggle to hold onto a place that won’t stay still.

Foundations crack, rooms shift, walls bend, doors vanish. This heartwarming story explores the tension between house and home—what we build, what we lose, and what we’re always searching for. Where do we belong? And what happens when the place we call home refuses to stay the same?

Run Time: 80 – 90 minutes Age Range: All ages

Supported by __Irwin and Sadie Cohen Fund

“Darren Stevenson, Heather Stevenson and Ashley Jones show supreme command of their bodies as they tumble, balance and support one another …” – Orlando Sentinel “…perfect metaphor-in-motion… myth and magic… super-strong acrobatics…” – City Newspaper “The most fantastic, emotional event I have ever experienced. Absolutely remarkable” – Audience rave

ABOUT PUSH AND THE PERFORMERS Intense athleticism, gravity-defying acrobatics, and soulful artistry are the trademarks of award-winning, genre-defining PUSH Physical Theatre. Founded in Rochester, NY in 2000 by husband-and-wife team, Darren and Heather Stevenson, out of a desire to “push” the boundaries of conventional theatre, PUSH has since earned an international reputation as one of the world’s leading physical theatre companies.

Over the last two years PUSH has performed at the International Festival for Jewish Theatre in Jerusalem, appeared Off-Broadway at the Soho Playhouse, garnered multiple awards including “International Fringe Encore Series”, four “Best of the Fest” awards as well as “Critics Choice Best Show” at Orlando Fringe and “Outstanding Production” at Ottawa Fringe, a “Jenny” in Winnipeg and “Media Pick” with a 5 out of 5 star review in Edmonton. PUSH has also been featured in acclaimed collaborations with the Grammy- winning Ying Quartet, the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, and Pulitzer Prize-nominated composer Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon’s two multi-media operas. PUSH also produces its own works including RACE or ‘You’ve Seen Me Before,’ in collaboration with artist Hassiem Muhammad (online 2020); Generic Male: Just What We Need, Another Show About Men (2021); Someone No One Can See, a collaboration with transgender artist Penny Sterling (2022); and Hyde (2023). PUSH has been recognized for service to the community through the Rochester Community Foundation’s 2023 Ames-Amzalak Award for Nonprofit Excellence, University of Rochester’s Lillian Fairchild Award, Performing Artist of the Year Award from the Arts & Cultural Council for Greater Rochester, and the “Community of Color” Black History Month Anton Germano Dance Award, honoring advocates for an inclusive and diverse community who affect positive change. PUSH engages underserved populations in areas with some of the highest poverty rates and too little access to the arts, and provides workshops for children with disabilities, the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, youth involved in the juvenile justice system, and adults in senior facilities. To serve historically excluded communities, we are well aware of the need to seek out sources, inspiration and material beyond the lived experiences of our core company. Our creative consultants and focus groups include Black artists such as Thomas Warfield and Hassiem Muhammad, transgender artist Penny Sterling, people from rural areas, people with various disabilities, members of the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, and members of the University of Rochester Office of Diversity and Inclusion. More about the show and it’s creators: To be homesick may embody a longing for home—or feeling sick of home. Today many people say they ‘don’t feel at home’. But what do we mean when we speak of home? Is it a place? Is it other people? Or do we carry home with us? Using dance, non-traditional partnering, mime and more, Home(sick) will tell stories that draw audiences into questions about home: Where do I belong?’ What makes us feel ‘at home’—or not? What responsibilities do I have to this home, to this community?

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