Unity Theatre Company promotes cutting-edge work from the national and international circuit. The venue supports a reservoir of talent, many of the companies being embryonic, with individual artists in the early stages of development. Our investment is to support a programme of work from the national and international touring circuit and the development of young companies and individual artists.
Four extraordinary adventures in a re-imagined North.
"We're pioneers, up here, chucking sense out of the window. We're an experiment."
Four outstanding writers challenge the 'it's grim up North' clichés and offer a fresh, surprising and vibrant perspective on four amazing Northern cities: Liverpool, Newcastle, Sheffield and Manchester.
Stories written by
Luke Barnes (Bottleneck, Soho Theatre)
Alison Carr (Can Cause Death, National Theatre & Latitude Festival)
Matt Hartley (Sixty Five Miles, Hull Truck)
Sarah McDonald Hughes (Once In A House On Fire, The Lowry)
Directed by Chris Meads
Northern Spirit in association with New Writing North, Northern Stage, Royal Exchange Theatre, Sheffield Theatres and unitytheatre
Find out more:
www.northernspirit.org.uk
Four extraordinary adventures in a re-imagined North.
"We're pioneers, up here, chucking sense out of the window. We're an experiment."
Four outstanding writers challenge the 'it's grim up North' clichés and offer a fresh, surprising and vibrant perspective on four amazing Northern cities: Liverpool, Newcastle, Sheffield and Manchester.
Stories written by
Luke Barnes (Bottleneck, Soho Theatre)
Alison Carr (Can Cause Death, National Theatre & Latitude Festival)
Matt Hartley (Sixty Five Miles, Hull Truck)
Sarah McDonald Hughes (Once In A House On Fire, The Lowry)
Directed by Chris Meads
Northern Spirit in association with New Writing North, Northern Stage, Royal Exchange Theatre, Sheffield Theatres and unitytheatre
Find out more:
www.northernspirit.org.uk
"...this is a powerful piece of theatre."
British Theatre Guide
The prisoner next door has hung himself. Another has been beaten by an officer.
Kelly is barricaded inside a cell with the officer. Both are guilty of something and both want answers.
Officer Scully plays a dangerous game to predict Kelly's future, but his own hangs in the balance.
Written by prison writer in residence Michael Crowley and developed with staff and inmates at a young offender's institution.
Directed by Ron Meadows
Written and produced by Michael Crowley
A Hard Act Theatre production
A widow, a criminal son, an affair and a honeydew melon baby.
What happens when you lose everything?
If there are no customers?
Does your world end?
Do you create a new one?
Meet the owners of three abandoned shops as you enter their absurd and wonderfully, weird worlds.
Exploring love, loss, melons and the plight of all things small, come walk the streets between comedy and far darker places!
Idiotsinsync return to unity after a rapturous reception with this hilarious and newly adapted dark comedy.
An Idiotsinsync production
Directed by Paula Simms
Take a trip with Hansel and Gretel deep into the magical forest, where the trees are alive, wonderful creatures roam and a house made of sweets stands proud in the sparkling moonlight. Make friends with a not-so-helpful bird, face a wicked witch and eat sweets and cakes along the way!
With jolly songs, belly laughs, heroes and villains, all topped off with a sprinkling of magic, the festive season wouldn't be the same without unity's festive show.
Perfect for ages 5+
Filmed and Edited by Paul Dunbar & Joanna Straczowski
Take a trip with Hansel and Gretel deep into the magical forest, where the trees are alive, wonderful creatures roam and a house made of sweets stands proud in the sparkling moonlight. Make friends with a not-so-helpful bird, face a wicked witch and eat sweets and cakes along the way!
With jolly songs, belly laughs, heroes and villains, all topped off with a sprinkling of magic, the festive season wouldn't be the same without unity's festive show.
Perfect for ages 5+
Written by Jeff Young (The Voyages of Sinbad The Sailor)
Directed by Nina Hajiyianni I Music & lyrics by Patrick Dineen
unitytheatre in association with Hope Street Limited and Action Transport Theatre
Find out more at www.hanselandgretelliverpool.co.uk
Filmed and Edited by Paul Dunbar
Ground control to Major Tit, 3, 2, 1!!...Blast-Off!!!!!
Go into orbit this year with Captain Terry Titter and his cosmic comedy themed festive silly super-nova!!
With his usual galaxy of out-of-this-world star characters, plus a few sci-fi surprises, it promises to be a rocket fuelled big bang of brilliance!
So polish your helmet and beam yourself up as Mr. Titter says U.F.O to Two Thousand and Twelve!!
Filmed and Edited by Paul Dunbar
Candy floss windows and gingerbread walls,
Chocolate chimneys and marshmallow doors,
But who would live in a house of sweets?
Maybe it's children they'd like to eat!?!
Take a walk into the forest and you will see, all is not as it's meant to be...
Hansel & Gretel soon will find, it's friends that matter, no-one's left behind!
A tale of bravery, action, adventure and joy,
Friendship and fun for every girl and boy,
So expect the unexpected in this family festive treat,
With songs, dance and laughs that are good enough to eat!
Perfect for ages 5+
Signed performances:
Sat 5 Jan 5:30pm I Sat 12 Jan 2pm
Written by Jeff Young (The Voyages of Sinbad The Sailor)
Directed by Nina Hajiyianni I Music & Lyrics by Patrick Dineen
A unitytheatre production in association with Hope Street Limited
Filmed and Edited by Paul Dunbar
Homotopia Festival 2012
Returning for its ninth year Homotopia rampages across Liverpool this autumn presenting visual arts, performance, film and debate that reflects the non-heterosexual experience.
The festival theme this year is 'Traditional Family Values' and encompasses over 35 events including new commissions and world premieres that celebrate, interrogate and explore 'the family' in all its queer diversity.
Continuing and developing partnerships with cultural organisations across the city Homotopia is insinuating the queer aesthetic into venues including the Walker Art Gallery, Open Eye, FACT and the Liverpool Biennial.
WORLD PREMIERE
Deep in the dark woods, a woman is held prisoner.
But is her sinister captor a predator of the body or her mind?
Fairytale and reality blur as the dark side of human nature is explored with skilful physicality and a playful original soundtrack.
Don't miss this quirky and disturbingly memorable show from Tmesis Theatre, one of the UK's leading physical theatre companies.
"Rarefied, intriguing...beautiful"
The Guardian
Devised by the company and award-winning writer Chris Fittock.
With input from Nigel Charnock (co-founder DV8), Fin Walker and Lorna Marshall.
A Tmesis Theatre production. Commissioned by unitytheatre.
Candy floss windows and gingerbread walls,
Chocolate chimneys and marshmallow doors,
But who would live in a house of sweets?
Maybe it's children they'd like to eat!?!
Take a walk into the forest and you will see, all is not as it's meant to be...
Hansel & Gretel soon will find, it's friends that matter, no-one's left behind!
A tale of bravery, action, adventure and joy,
Friendship and fun for every girl and boy,
So expect the unexpected in this family festive treat,
With songs, dance and laughs that are good enough to eat!
Perfect for ages 5+
Cold Call
Tue 9 - Wed 10 Oct I 8pm
Filmed and edited by Paul Dunbar
What's your idea of hell?
A new call centre worker tries to be himself, tries to break the routine, the monotonous action, the brain-numbing dullness.
But when the cycle becomes too much and life starts becoming robotic, what happens?
Join Plastic Factory as they explore the work place of a new generation with hypnotic, preposterous movement and dark comic physical theatre. Funny, unsettling and eye-opening.
Candy floss windows and gingerbread walls,
Chocolate chimneys and marshmallow doors,
But who would live in a house of sweets?
Maybe it's children they'd like to eat!?!
Take a walk into the forest and you will see, all is not as it's meant to be...
Hansel & Gretel soon will find, it's friends that matter, no-one's left behind!
A tale of bravery, action, adventure and joy,
Friendship and fun for every girl and boy,
So expect the unexpected in this family festive treat,
With songs, dance and laughs that are good enough to eat!
Perfect for ages 5+
Signed performances:
Sat 5 Jan 5:30pm I Sat 12 Jan 2pm
Written by Jeff Young (The Voyages of Sinbad The Sailor)
Directed by Ann Farrar I Music & Lyrics by Patrick Dineen
A unitytheatre production in association with Hope Street Limited
One unforgiving moment.
Repercussions beyond the imaginable.
American Fullbright scholar Amy Biehl is killed in the Gugulethu township of Cape Town. A horrifying murder, carried out by four youths. The mother of one of the murderers tries to make sense of a senseless act recounting events in an imaginary conversation with Amy's mother.
Interwoven with music and the Xhosa indigenous language this powerful and profound monologue is delivered with dignity, sensitivity and humour by South African actress Thembi Mtshali-Jones.
Original novel written by Sindiwe Magona
Adapted for the stage by Sindiwe Magona, Janice Honeyman and Thembi Mtshali-Jones
Directed by Janice Honeyman
A Wondrous Place Opening Night
The Cell trailer - Unity Theatre
Tales From Under The Counter - idiotsinsync - Unity Theatre
Hansel and Gretel opening night audience reaction - Unity Theatre
Hansel and Gretel Trailer - Unity Theatre
Terry Titter's Spaced Out Christmas - Unity Theatre
The Art Of Falling Apart - Trailer (2012/13)
Hansel and Gretel 1st Read Through - Unity Theatre - 5/11/12
Homotopia Promo 2012 - Unity Theatre
Wolf Red - Audience Reaction on Opening Night - Unity Theatre - 26/09/12
Catherine Jones talking about review writing - Hansel and Gretel - Unity Theatre
Cold Call show trailer - Plastic Factory - Unity Theatre
Jeff Young reading a Hansel and Gretel extract - Unity Theatre
