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  September 5, 2011 / 0 Comments

  It’s about to get Translunar

  MADEUP is already stockpiling the tissues for this one. Multi award-winning Theatre Ad Infinitum, one of the massive success stories of this year’s Edinburgh Fringe, invites you on a journey of life, death, and enduring love with their latest prod…

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  September 1, 2011 / 0 Comments

  Blackberry Trout Face returns

  Following an acclaimed debut in 2009, Liverpool theatre company 20 Stories High will tour Laurence Wilson???s award-winning play Blackberry Trout Face to national venues, schools and communities throughout September and November. Directed by the com…

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  August 24, 2011 / 0 Comments

  Unity Theatre is Making Art

  Making Art is the name of the Unity Theatre???s artist development programme, and it is kicking off their autumn season with not one but five new pieces that have been made possible by the scheme. It provides a ?100 loan as well as technical, mark…

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  August 18, 2011 / 1 Comment

  A Question of Freedom

  A hard-hitting, award-winning play about the horrors of modern day slavery is coming to the Unity. The subject is so pertinent, there will even be an academic conference running alongside the performances. Feelgood Theatre bring their production S…

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  July 25, 2011 / 0 Comments

  Review: An Evening with Andrew Lancel, Unity

  Andrew Lancel, star of Coronation Street and The Bill, paid his dues as a patron of the Unity theatre at the weekend and hosted a one-man show and fundraiser for the venue. It was a packed, entertaining night that surpassed expectations and showed…

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  July 17, 2011 / 0 Comments

  Diversity in Dance

  The city’s carnival season is well underway, and as part of Brouhaha???s 2011 programme, the Unity will be hosting showcase performance Diversity In Dance on Tuesday (July 19). This year acts include companies from The Netherlands, Norway and Spain …

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  July 13, 2011 / 0 Comments

  Review: Last Dance at the Rialto, Unity

  For someone who only knows the Rialto area of Toxteth as a place to get the papers, a takeaway and a grotty bottle of wine its recent history is nothing short of fascinating. It’s almost impossible to imagine the place as the battleground it becam…

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  July 7, 2011 / 0 Comments

  Interview with Coronation Street’s Andrew Lancel

  Coronation Street star Andrew Lancel doesn???t often take to the Liverpool stage, but there???s a special occasion coming up. Lancel is returning to the Unity, where he is a patron, for a night of song and entertainment later in the month. It’s not so…

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  June 27, 2011 / 0 Comments

  This week, failure teaches success

  City-based company Annulled Theatre debuts its comedy production Failure Teaches Success at the Unity from tomorrow (Tuesday, June 28) until Thursday. The play focuses on a group of struggling actors who have formed a theatre in education company …

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  June 23, 2011 / 0 Comments

  Community theatre spins a Yarn

  City-based MATE Drama Workshop bring their latest production The Yarn to the Unity tonight (June 23) until Saturday. Written by Rob Brannen, it tells the story of villagers of a rural northern community in the 1800s weaving together a patchwork of…

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  June 15, 2011 / 0 Comments

  Toxteth Riots play at the Unity

  To mark the 30th anniversary of the Toxteth Riots, The Unity Theatre is premiering Last Dance at the Rialto, a new play written by a former police officer who served, and was injured, in the violence. It is written by Dave Potts, who at the time o…

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  May 24, 2011 / 0 Comments

  Sex, booze and Jimmy Choos

  After a successful run in 2009, the Unity theatre is welcoming back award-winning local company Boom Boom Baby Productions with their comedy production If The Shoe Fits!. With the tagline “sex, booze and Jimmy Choos!”, the play – which been made i…

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  May 22, 2011 / 0 Comments

  Start of the Physical Fest

  This week sees the start of the seventh annual Physical Fest, courtesy of Liverpool-based physical theatre company Tmesis. A unique festival for performers and enthusiasts comprising a variety of workshops and performances, it will launch on Satur…

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• May 6, 2011 / 0 Comments

  Review: Andi Osho, Unity

  Andi Osho is great. A bold female presence on the stand up circuit and the panel show bear pit, the chance to see what she could do live was a real treat and, to use the old reviewers’ cliche, she did not disappoint. (Note to self: Don’t use that …

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  May 5, 2011 / 0 Comments

  Review: Simon Munnery, Unity

  Simon Munnary’s show, Self Employed, is a revealing journey into the mind of one of British comedy’s unsung talents. Personally, I hadn’t seen Munnary live for donkeys’ years, and don’t really remember much enjoying his Alan Parker, Urban Warrior …

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  April 28, 2011 / 0 Comments

  Review: Arthur Smith, Unity Theatre

  It’s the first night of the Liverpool Comedy Festival! So to kick things off, Made Up headed over to the Unity to catch up with veteran performer Arthur Smith for a night of… well, comedy was just one part of his amiable, silly, but thoroughly e…

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  April 20, 2011 / 0 Comments

  A story of the Liverpool blitz

  After a run of sell out performances last year, the Unity Theatre is welcoming back local theatre company CJ Productions with Red Skies from May 11 – 14. Almost 4000 people on Merseyside lost their lives in the air attacks of Hitler???s blitzkrieg, …

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  April 5, 2011 / 0 Comments

  Review: Andrew Lawrence, Unity Theatre

  Andrew Lawrence’s acerbic writing and impishly flowery delivery ultimately couldn’t save tonight’s show from descending into a ramshackle evening of floundering stand up. When Lawrence is good, he is very good. His writing is tight and he plays on…

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  March 24, 2011 / 0 Comments

  Interview: The Summer House writer and actor, Neil Haigh

  Neil Haigh is one of the writers and performers of The Summer House, a new comedy coming to the Unity next week. Produced by London’s Fuel Theatre, it is the story of three men on a lads’ holiday in the Scandinavian wilds. Among other work, Neil i…

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  March 23, 2011 / 0 Comments

  Review: And the Horse You Rode in On, Unity

  Just before arriving at the Unity to see last night???s show, I???d been sat in the Baltic Fleet discussing, among other things, the fabled Bold Street ???timeslip???, the urban legend that people have actually experienced unwitting time travel in that pa…

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