Tag Archives: The Unity Theatre

Austin Mitchel Hewitt Returns To Liverpool With World Premiere.

Internationally renowned puppeteer and performer Austin Mitchel Hewitt returns to his home town of Liverpool to present the world premiere of his first solo show I’m Happy Here (honest) at The Unity Theatre on March 25th and 26th.

This new production features a compelling mix of puppetry, shadow, music, clowning, visual theatre and storytelling to explore the burred line that memory creates through the retelling of stories; making them almost ‘fairytale’ in quality. It features an original soundtrack and songs by local musician Barry Han, who has written for Tmesis Theatre and Periplum Theatre companies.

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(313 words, estimated 1:15 mins reading time)

Big Wow Return To The Unity Theatre With Extra, Extra Happy.

A hapless idiot with a wildly out of date Lonely Planet goes travelling and looking for an ‘experience’.

From Wednesday 12th till Saturday 15th February Big Wow will return to the Unity Theatre with their first ever show, Extra, Extra Happy, to raise funds to support their 2014 Edinburgh Fringe show – The Art Of Falling Apart which premiered at the Unity Theatre in 2012!

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Liverpool Based Actress Denise Kennedy Brings The Story Of Bella Burge To The Unity Theatre.

Liverpool-based actress Denise Kennedy premieres her new show with live music, song, dance, and boxing, and tells the amazing true story of the world’s first female boxing promoter, Bella Burge, a woman who, after having toured the music halls as Marie Lloyd’s dresser, entered the male-dominated world of boxing.

She succeeded in taking over the running of south London boxing venue Blackfriars Ring from her husband, the ex prize-fighter Dick Burge – a promise made to him on his deathbed – until it was destroyed in a World War Two air raid in 1940.

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(350 words, estimated 1:24 mins reading time)

Three Home Grown Greats Make Thier Way To The Unity Theatre.

The Unity Theatre has three home-grown shows coming to the Hope Street venue during the next month. Opening with a new production, Virtually Reality examines how advancements in bio-technology and artificial intelligence will shape the future of the world we live in. The Bells is a reinvigorated adaptation of the classic and rarely performed Victorian melodrama set in a mountain village with a terrible secret… The Judgement Of Hakim examines security and privacy in this new play directed by Spike Theatre’s Mark Smith – how far are we willing to find the truth?

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(660 words, estimated 2:38 mins reading time)

The Pied Piper, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Edwina Lea, Emma Hirons, James Michael Doolan, Nathan Smith.

The Pied Piper is one of those rare stories that can both enthral and beguile and disgust and terrify at the same time, it is no wonder it is such a firm favourite of lovers of fairy tales and that it is ripe for re-telling in as many different ways as you can imagine on the stage.

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(380 words, estimated 1:31 mins reading time)

Spooky Tales At The Unity Theatre Thanks To Petite Ullaloom.

The Unity Theatre has announced that is thrilled to welcome back experienced children’s theatre company Petite Ullaloom with a fun, frightening theatrical experience for children!

Petite Ullaloom are the sister company to Ullaloom. The company produces original writing, commision based work and exciting, imaginative theatre for children. Petite Ullaloom collaborated with Unity Theatre on the successful productions of The Snow Queen and The Red Shoes.

Gasp, gawp and grin at stories of witches, ghosts and things that go bump in the night! Join Edward and Martha Creep as they perform and read terrifying stories as only a true Creep can!

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(251 words, estimated 1:00 mins reading time)

liverpool Sound And Vision: The Saturday Supplement, An Interview With Eddie John Fortune. (2)

The heat in Liverpool, even at ten in the morning, has begun to drain people and what feels like the longest heat-wave since 1976 takes on the atmosphere in the city and it feels strangely quiet around the area of St. Luke’s as crowds flock to river to get some sea breeze and seek some sort of shelter against the summer sun. One man though who forever seems in good spirits and who can turn an overcast, thundery day into a ray of sunshine is Eddie John Fortune.

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(1422 words, estimated 5:41 mins reading time)

Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Saturday Supplement, An Interview With Anna Corcoran.

Anna Corcoran’s voice and beautiful melodies have earned her a great accolades and plaudits for her work, especially alongside her great friend Robert Vincent and since the release of her E.P., Anything Better, the owner of that recognisable voice has just kept growing in stature and quite rightly so.

Before she took to stage at The Unity Theatre, Anna took time out from the worries of the day to music world and relaxed in the café and loosened up before her show she spoke of her new video for the outstanding single The Show, her work on the E.P. and the reasons why she still calls Liverpool her home.

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(1459 words, estimated 5:50 mins reading time)

Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Sunday Postscript, An Interview With Paul Dunbar Of The Midnight Ramble.

Paul Dunbar greets me with a friendly smile and an outstretched hand as he comes from out of one of the many doors that are part of the rabbit warren of the iconic Unity Theatre. Every band and musician I have come across in Liverpool has something special about them, from Buckle Tongue to Ian McNabb, from Jo Bywater to Stealing Sheep, Paul Dunbar and his band have something about them that makes you want to smile which fits in with the current and lasting view that the city of Liverpool is perhaps arguably the best city in terms of creativity within music to call home.

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(1726 words, estimated 6:54 mins reading time)

When the Rain Stops Falling At The Unity Theatre This June.

When the Rain Stops Falling by Andrew Bovell is an epic play, spanning eight decades, four generations and two hemispheres and will be coming to Liverpool’s Unity Theatre between Tuesday 18th and Saturday 22nd June.

From the stifling heat of Alice Springs to the cold damp of London’s streets, from 1959 to 2039, from the extraordinary summit of Uluru to the ordinariness of a grimy London flat. Follow Gabriel Law as he retraces the paths of his ancestors, on a journey to piece together the jigsaw puzzle of his own identity.

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(210 words, estimated 50 secs reading time)