Introducing our Spring/Summer season including: A Radical Re-Imagining our National Lottery Heritage Project ⭐️
Join us over the summer months as we host returning festivals Leap & Improvisation festival, laugh-out-loud stand up comedy, our renowned local scratch nights, theatre, workshops & more 🤝
Everything is available to book NOW via our website 🏃
See you at our launch event tonight! 👀
A RADICAL RE-IMAGINING IS HERE 🫵
Join us this May & June as we explore Unity’s rich heritage through performance, archives, exhibitions, workshops, panel discussions and more.
Head to our website to browse and book all events. 🎟️
We are delighted to announce we have been shortlisted for People’s Choice Award – Outstanding Contribution to Culture, at this years Liverpool City Region Culture and Creativity Awards! 🌟
At Unity, we are incredibly proud of all the work we do to better our communities through creative mediums. Our affordable workshops, community group projects and creative programme are a testament to our dedication to Liverpool’s Creative scene 🧡
Voting goes live on the 3rd February so watch this space!
Thank you to @lpoolcityregion Culture and Creativity Awards 💥
It is all happening in the building this week with Stage Left rehearsals, our Young Radicals grafting away with Patrick Dineen and our exhibition flying up at LJMU and in our bar!
Head to our website to book all of our incredible heritage project events 🔥
📦️From The Archives: Serving the Labour Movement
See more from our fascinating archive at Mount Pleasant Library 🤝
Thursday 14 May to Sunday 28 June
Step into the past at this exhibition featuring archives from the Unity Theatre collection.
Opening hours Monday to Friday 8:45am-7pm, Saturday 10am-6pm and Sunday 10am-4pm.
🎟️On Sale Now
@lungtheatre return to Unity with Woodhill
📅Wednesday 21st - Thursday 22nd October | 7:30pm
‘I DANCE IN THE HORROR OF GRIEF.’
Three men at Woodhill prison are dead. Their families demand answers. This is a call to arms about the crisis facing prisons.
Gut punching choreography and unflinching beats shine a light on the hidden story of HMP Woodhill. Lyrically told in their own words, three families investigate what happened to their boys. What they discover is so haunting, it turns their world upside down.
Pushing the form of documentary theatre and dance, Woodhill is an explosive true story by multi-award-winning LUNG and originally developed with The North Wall.
“Essential viewing”
BroadwayWorld ★★★★★
“a dazzling show that does justice to injustice”
Evening Standard
★★★★★
🔨Breaking the Class Ceiling – A Live Exploration of Working Class Artistry
(Plus Scratch Open Mic🎙️)
Saturday 30th May | 3pm-6:30pm
Join us for an unflinching, live panel discussion that bridges the gap between Unity’s 1930s ‘Workers’ Theatre’ roots and Liverpool’s contemporary creative scene.
In an era where the ‘class ceiling’ remains a challenging barrier in the arts, how do creatives and radical makers keep momentum? We bring together five Liverpool working-class artists to discuss the politics of the stage, the power of heritage, and the future of working-class storytelling.
Following our headline panel discussion, we’re offering a space for working-class creatives to test new ideas, political rants, or works in progress.
Followed by Radical Scratch Open Mic 5-6.30pm
🤝Part of Unity’s Heritage Lottery Funded project.
Lock up your Dads - The Princesses are coming! 👑💨
After a sold-out debut performance, THE SERIOUSLY STUPID SHOW returns this Saturday with all-new sketches, absurd characters, and interactive daftness 🌀
It’s a riot for all ages - think Vic and Bob meets the Muppets!
📆 Saturday, 16th May
⏰ 2pm @unity_theatre
🤑 £8/ £5
Book fast! 🎟️ in the 🔗 in bio 👆
#LiverpoolComedy #WhatsOnLiverpool #LiverpoolFamilies #LiverpoolEvents #TheSeriouslyStupidShow
🎺Political Songs Workshop: Sing, March, Protest with Patrick Dineen
Saturday 23rd May | 2-5pm
Come along and experience the political songs that the Unity Theatre would have performed, written and experienced over the years from the Spanish Civil War to the 1960s.
From rousing marching songs through to sophisticated cabaret. Listen and sing the wit and irony, dark humour of songs that speak of injustice and corruption.
Patrick Dineen is a composer and lyricist. He has written many scores for theatre and political cabaret over the years and has had a long standing relationship with The Unity Theatre. His work as a composer includes tv, film, dance, cabaret and directing his own music-theatre shows.
Tired of “boring” shows for kids? Prepare for something Seriously Stupid!
Liverpool’s favourite professional idiots present a brand new comedy show for all ages, every month! It’s an explosion of mayhem for the whole family – like Vic and Bob meets the Muppets!
Expect stupid sketches, crazy characters, and interactive daftness, performed by an award-winning cast who really should know better… !
Don’t just watch – join in!
Our grand finale is The Seriously Stupid Talent Show, we believe every child deserves a stage to be stupid on… and it means we have to do less!
★★★★★ “The perfect show to go to as a family” — Theatre & Tonic
The best part? The Seriously Stupid Crew are now returning monthly at Unity for Stupid Shenanigans 🤪
Next Show: SATURDAY 16TH MAY!
🎟️Via our website
📦️From The Archives: Waiting for Lefty and Chester Festival 1938
See more from our fascinating archive at Mount Pleasant Library 🤝
Thursday 14 May to Sunday 28 June
Step into the past at this exhibition featuring archives from the Unity Theatre collection.
Opening hours Monday to Friday 8:45am-7pm, Saturday 10am-6pm and Sunday 10am-4pm.
Scratch Nights are BACK 🙌
We have a fantastic line up this month 👇️
💥The Edge of Nothing | @fionascottactor (aka Sparrows Kneecaps)
Inspired by a shed, a garden and the odd wafting scarf…
A performer tries out different ways of playing Shakespeare’s Fools in search of that elusive breakthrough moment.
💥Ernie | @talesfromaroundours
This one man mask show combines live foley, mime and music to transport us back to the 1960s to understand the harsh realities faced by the working man on the Liverpool docks.
💥Shambles | @shambles.theplay
SHAMBLES! On an iced over lake, two dog walkers watch as their little pampered pooch kills a duck. As the animals fight, so do they…
(a devised absurd comedy)
💥Choose Your Future | @nextwavedanceco
Choose Your Future is an interactive contemporary dance performance where audiences vote on four societal priorities: Care, Industry, Technology and Environment.
These choices shape the choreography live, meaning each performance unfolds differently.
Wednesday 27th May | 7:30pm
Tickets just £7! 🎟️
