You are cordially invited to a magical house party on the grandest scale. HOME builds an entire house before your very eyes, and then explores how it turns into a home. With fixtures, fittings, and finally inhabitants. And even – maybe – a little help from you.

Actor, creator, magician and illusionist Geoff Sobelle won enormous praise for previous shows Flesh and Blood and Fish and Fowl in 2010, and the multi-award-winning The Object Lesson in 2014.

His new show, co-commissioned by the International Festival, is his most dazzling to date, as he throws open the doors and invites you to his party. HOME is a moving meditation on the relentless passage of time, and a breathtaking spectacle of illusion, choreography, inexplicable construction and live documentary.

As a whole house miraculously materialises around him, Sobelle explores how a home shapes the lives of those within it – from the humdrum rituals of showering, cooking and doing the washing, to the momentous events of births, deaths, even crazy parties.

With live troubadour tunes from Elvis Perkins and an ever-expanding crowd of residents past and future, HOME reveals how we’re haunted by previous inhabitants of our homes, and how we in turn will haunt those who come after us.

Witty and wise, hearty and hilarious, lively and life-affirming, HOME is both experimental and thrillingly immediate, full of wonder and excess. It captures all the drama and emotion of our everyday lives.

'a delicious piece of dreamlike visual theatre and sleight of mind'
The Independent

★★★★★ 'there is a poignancy to Sobelle and co’s extended study of human behaviour'
The Herald

★★★★★ 'unlike anything else you'll see in Edinburgh this year'
Scottish Daily Mail

★★★★ 'A visual feast and incredible feat of logistics, HOME presents a moving study on the poetics of time'
The List

★★★★ 'an often magical, meditative piece on what a home can be'
The Stage

★★★★ 'Playful, heart-warming and dazzling'
EdinburghGuide

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