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  December 11, 2013 / 0 Comments

  Random Acts of Wildness: For One Night Only

  “We do ask the audience to abandon all common sense at the door,” Graham Hicks says, explaining his latest project.   Together with Aiden Brooks, this is pretty much par for the course from their comedy partnership as Random Acts of Wildness; and this Christmas they are turning the Unity into a party zone – […]

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  November 25, 2013 / 0 Comments

  REVIEW: Beauty and the Beast, Unity Theatre

  “I think the video is much more, if people get past the point that I’m naked and you actually look at me. You can tell that I actually look more broken than even the song sounds,” so wittered a nonsensical Miley Cyrus, convincing absolutely no-one that her decision to swing on a wrecking ball in […]

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  November 18, 2013 / 0 Comments

  INTERVIEW: Julie Atlas Muz

  She’s known as the queen of neo-burlesque and is a former Miss Coney Island and Miss Exotic World, and native New Yorker Julie Atlas Muz returns to Liverpool this weekend with new full length theatre show Beauty and the Beast.   Described as an adult fairy tale, anyone familiar with the work of Muz and […]

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  November 17, 2013 / 0 Comments

  REVIEW: Caz and Britney’s Mis Les, Unity Theatre

  Caz and Britney – the Scouse scally alter egos of city actresses Gillian Hardie and Keddy Sutton – may have started as a joke, but their second full length show has really taken the act to another level. Homotopia commission Mis Les featured their trademark musical theatre parodies and so much more besides.   The […]

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  November 16, 2013 / 2 Comments

  REVIEW: Le Gateau Chocolat, Unity Theatre

  Le Gateau Chocolat may know a thing or two about being an outsider; but his remarkable new show Black goes a long way to show there are many ways we are all the same.   A larger than life cabaret star, Le Gateau Chocolat is bright, bold and hard to ignore – but this beautiful […]

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  November 10, 2013 / 0 Comments

  REVIEW: Dance Triple Bill, Unity Theatre

  Part of the Homotopia programme, this unimaginatively named evening belied the wonderful variety of performance to be found within. Led by an all female line up of performers, the three pieces were a combination of funny, touching, gaudy, gentle and thought-provoking works that fitted together for an entertaining mix.   Leed-based De Nada Dance Theatre’s […]

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  November 1, 2013 / 0 Comments

  Homotopia 10 top ten

  Homotopia launched and celebrated its 10th anniversary this week in a flurry of unicorns, glitter, beautiful people and Boy George. With another incredible programme about to begin, the fest welcomes back some old friends from near and far, as well as the usual raft of new commissions. The LGBT event crosses all media to take […]

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  October 20, 2013 / 0 Comments

  REVIEW: STATIk, Unity Theatre

  When you don’t have kids there’s not much cause for going anywhere near children’s theatre, with the general exception to the rule being panto when you’re feeling festive. So it was intriguing to see a work that gave little minds (and big ones) something to ponder rather than filling them full of sugar and letting […]

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  October 14, 2013 / 0 Comments

  Kids answer life’s big questions in STATIk

  Not many people would look to a toddler or a teenager for the answers to life’s big questions, but Ellesmere Port-based theatre company Action Transport Theatre set off in to local schools and quizzed hundreds of children on issues that have puzzled adults for centuries. Inspired by the responses that varied from serious to straight […]

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  October 7, 2013 / 0 Comments

  New European theatre at the Unity

  This looks fantastic – the highlights of Birmingham’s international theatre event BE FESTIVAL 2013 will tour in Liverpool this month, introducing three emerging European theatre companies to UK audiences. Each of the pieces presented have been selected for their capacity to transcend cultural and linguistic boundaries, and the performance, at the Unity on October 22, […]

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  September 14, 2013 / 0 Comments

  Write Now festival returns

  The Write Now festival of one act plays has found a new home in the Unity Theatre, and things get underway next week. Six brand new pieces, one from outside the region and five from Merseyside-based playwrights will be being performed from  Wednesday (September 18) to Saturday (September 21).   “We relocated to the Unity […]

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  September 11, 2013 / 0 Comments

  The Unthinkable Mystery of the Indigo Star

  Sherlock Holmes Murdered! Priceless Diamond Stolen! Can the world’s greatest (remaining) detectives solve the case and escape with their lives? Find out in… The Unthinkable Mystery of the Indigo Star, which is on until Friday (September 13) at the Unity Theatre.   Sefton-based theatre company Gambolling Arena’s new comic thriller is written by Liverpool writer […]

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  August 14, 2013 / 0 Comments

  Master and Margarita at the Unity

  The theatre company behind the Liverpool Shakespeare Festival is turning its hand to something completely different, with an adaptation of a modern classic Russian novel.   Mikhail Bulgarov’s satire Master and Margarita is a multi-layered story combining -it sez ‘ere – “the love affair of the century, Satan’s visit to Moscow, the final days of […]

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  August 7, 2013 / 0 Comments

  REVIEW: How to Fall in Love, Unity Theatre

  How to Fall in Love is described as “a performative love affair, a date, and a promenade performance through the streets of Liverpool”. And it stars you, the audience member, as much as the theatre company that devised it.   Those who signed up to see the show at various slots during each evening were […]

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  August 1, 2013 / 0 Comments

  How to Fall in Love with RAWD

  Be mine forever? How about an hour then? A new show next week will be pairing off strangers to spread the word about How to Fall in Love.   RAWD is a Wirral-based theatre group that has been active for a two years, mainly producing pantomimes and devised pieces. Dedicated to helping vulnerable adults grow […]

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  July 29, 2013 / 0 Comments

  John Bishop’s Unity fundraiser

  The first and only time MADEUP ever saw John Bishop live, he was playing to a handful of tables in a Merseyside arts centre maybe ten years ago; so the idea of him going back to give the Unity a go isn’t quite as strange as you’d think. Well, least of all because he is […]

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  July 12, 2013 / 0 Comments

  REVIEW: When I was a Girl I used to Scream and Shout, Unity Theatre

  When I was a Girl I used to Scream and Shout is a bittersweet, harrowing and hilarious dissection of the relationship between a mother and daughter; it is also much, much more than that, examining the choices available to women over the generations and the stigma that continues to surround female happiness and desire.   […]

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  July 4, 2013 / 0 Comments

  When I was a Girl I used to Scream and Shout

  You might know Gillian Hardie as one half of comedy cabaret act Caz and Britney. More akin to goofing about giving show tunes a Scouse twist, things take a dramatic turn next week for the debut production of her new theatre company, Kidakidder.   The show is a revival of 80s coming-of-age drama When I […]

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  June 28, 2013 / 0 Comments

  The ultimate comedy smackdown

  If it’s nearly July, then Improvageddon is upon us. Improv dueling at its sharpest, totally inspired by audience suggestions, Improvageddon, at the Unity on July 3, is a show entirely made up in front of your eyes by an ensemble of performers, creating scenes, songs and silliness like never before.   Four teams enter, but […]

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  May 31, 2013 / 0 Comments

  Bat Boy: The Musical

  Check out this fantastic graphic – coming highly recommended next week is Bat Boy, the first production of 2013 from community musical theatre group What We Did Next.   Described as “a love story with bite”, the entire show – from the composer of Legally Blonde: The Musical – was inspired by a recurring spoof […]

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