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Back and Welcome to Unity's 2021 Programme of Events 2021 SEASON unitytheatreliverpool.co.uk Welcome back and welcome to Unity’s 2021 programme of events. We are delighted to finally be sharing Showcasing Local Talent with you some of the exciting productions With over 40 events and 100 artists and activities that form a special year already involved, our specially curated of work from Unity. reopening activities are a manifestation of this. Like everyone, our 2020 wasn’t quite the year we had planned. Originally Supporting Artists intended to be a landmark celebration This new season includes 22 of our 40th anniversary, instead we Merseyside-based creatives and found our doors closing indefinitely. companies who feature as part of The implications of the pandemic our Open Call Programme. Created and shutdown of venues across the UK to provide income and performance were serious and far-reaching, but they opportunity to local artists after allowed us to take stock and question a year without both, the Open Call our role as an arts organisation. celebrates these artists, their stories, communities and lives. What has emerged is a renewed commitment for Unity to provide 2021 welcomes a huge-new event space and opportunity for people series as part of our talent development to be creative, enjoy high-quality programme - Creative’pool. This will entertainment and celebrate the provide personalised training, workshops, communities of Liverpool. We want advice, exclusive events and development to continue to inspire creative opportunities to over 200 artists a year. risk and achieve a fairer, more supportive and accessible world. Access for All After a year of such uncertainty some of you may understandably be nervous about venturing into buildings. Therefore, Unity are committing to making all live-work available online, as well as in-venue, at a Pay What You Can rate. Therefore, nearly all of this programme will also be online as well as in-venue. Finally, before we leave you to explore the full programme, we’d like to dedicate this season to you. Whether you’re an avid theatre-fan, an artist-in-the-making, a long-term supporter or someone who has stumbled upon this brochure by mistake – welcome, we hope you find something you enjoy, and we can’t wait to see you soon. Thank you again for your on-going support All at Unity Explore our programme Accessibility using the key below: Part of Unity’s Open Call programme, Captions Available celebrating Merseyside-based artists Part of Creative’pool – Unity’s BSL Interpretation Available Talent Development Programme This event will take place live at Unity Audio Description This event can be This event is available to accessed digitally/online experience in additional languages Relaxed Unity Online Unity Online is the home of our digital programme. Through Unity Online you will be able to access nearly all of our 2021 Programme alongside online training, Q&A events, workshops and exclusive artist content. Online Programme Online Training From 2021 onwards Unity Online Through Unity Online artists will become home to our theatre will be able to watch free-to-access programme. Alongside brand-new, recordings of training sessions, specially commissioned digital works workshops and Q&As. These include for you to enjoy from your own home, Business Skills Sessions in marketing, for our 2021 season we are also fundraising, finance and business committing to making nearly all planning, our 2020 success No One of our in-venue programme available Way – a 10-part Guest Speaker Series to watch online as well. with creatives who have taken unusual routes into their work and some Online performances will be available of our upcoming Creative’pool at a Pay What You Can ticket price training programme. and will premiere one-month after the physical production. You can find Exclusive Content out more about the shows involved Liverpool is full of wonderful people in our online programme by looking making wonderful work. Through Unity out for this logo: Online Online you can get to know some of the artists involved in our programme through exclusive interviews, behind- the-scenes insight into rehearsals, guest vlogs and more. You can access Unity Online for free on the Unity website: unitytheatreliverpool.co.uk Wed 21– Sun 25 Apr The Storm Written by Stuart Crowther with All Things Considered Shepherd Supported by Unity | Online This is a story that will happen in Funded by The Arts Council and in your home, in your ears and in your Association with The Unity Theatre. imagination! For booking, pricing and It’s about a kid like you called Scur but access information please visit they have a really special job. In fact, unitytheatreliverpool.co.uk they are the only one. Scur is a Storm Shepherd but today something is not Online quite right. Would you like to know what a Storm Shepherd does? Scur can show you and maybe, hopefully you can help! Coffee with Creatives The Storm Shepherd is an interactive, Thu 22 Apr, 1pm audio experience for a child 7+ and a Chat with the All Things Considered grown-up which takes place in your own team about their work as Socially home. It works best on a rainy day. Engaged Theatre makers, with a focus on creating intimate and immersive You will need two devices that can play theatre experiences. audio, two sets of headphones, a table and your imagination. 20 Stories High in association with Unity present Commissioned by the Wellcome Collection Released between May and June 2021 | Online Five short films, Five unique stories, Co-created by 20 Stories High with a Five reasons to watch. multi-talented collection of rappers, singers’ actors, poets, beatmakers, A mash up of theatre and music writers, visual artists, animators. Touchy video - interweaving beats, drama, offers a unique exploration in the world poetry, animation, visuals and original of touch. music. We follow the journey of six characters as they navigate their Booking Information way through the tactile highs and Touchy is a series of 5 short films that lows of young adulthood. will be released between May and June 2021. To be the first to hear when the films become available, please visit unitytheatreliverpool.co.uk Online Wednesday 21st – Sunday 25th April Written by Stuart Crowther with All Things Considered Tamasha Theatre Company and Titilola Dawudu present Hear Me Now: Audition Monologues - Volume 2 From May | Online | Part of Creative’pool Hear Me Now Volume 2 is a new the coming together of ten theatres and publication of short monologues created regions from across England, as well as in partnership with Unity and Liverpool- 100 actors, 50 writers, five dramaturgs, based writers and actors. 10 facilitators, signers, access workers, audio engineers and directors. Volume 1’s book of short monologues was a first of its kind, bringing together From May, Unity will begin working with playwrights and actors in creative actors and writers in Merseyside to workshops to generate better audition develop their monologues as part of a material for ethnically diverse actors year-long engagement project, ahead of than the largely stereotypical characters publication in early 2022. generally found in published play texts. Supported by Arts Council England With a focus on actors and writers who are either ethnically diverse and/or deaf unitytheatreliverpool.co.uk and disabled, the new volume will see Amina Atiq presents Scouse Pilgrimage Supported by Unity Mon 17–Sat 22 May | Online | Part of Unity’s Open Call Scouse Pilgrimage is a project Booking Information challenged by Brexit. What does This is a free to access event that does immigration look like in Britain today? not require a ticket. Find out more at unitytheatreliverpool.co.uk Liverpool holds one of the largest and longest communities in Europe, but some Online communities are still unknown and are yet to be heard. Scouse Pilgrimage Group Workshop Scouse Pilgrimage is a self-guided Mon 17 May experience for an audience who is What is your Scouse Pilgrimage? curious about their own Scouse journey, To celebrate celebrate immigration, created to celebrate immigration and language and culture across the free movement between borders. Creator city, join Amina for a workshop Amina Atiq will be sharing part of her to discover your own immigration journey to Liverpool. story to Liverpool. This brand-new digital and print This is a free, ticketed event. Sign up project will be available to hear, at unitytheatreliverpool.co.uk watch and read, with Arabic translation also available. You can also follow Amina’s story through pick-up postcards, available to collect during productions run from Unity or online at aminaatiq.org/scouse-pilgrimage The Battle of Wits by Gold Maria Akanbi Thu 20 – Sun 30 May Commissioned by Unity Online | Part of Unity’s Open Call The Battle of The Wits is a digital Booking Information performance piece that explores the Battle of Wits is a free online ways in which covid-19 has created performance. Booking, access and a state of internal warfare, with different trigger warning information can be aspects of self either coming to the found at unitytheatreliverpool.co.uk fore or fighting to be seen and heard. Online Whilst Gold is a neurodiverse artist and this work refers to those who are The Reality Behind the Frivolity, neurodiverse/neurodivergent, this works Post Event Online Q&A also addresses how the minds of the Thu 20 May general public have neurologically Join Gold Maria Akanbi for a free been challenged and either forced Q&A about her artistic process to change or submit to new ways for ‘The Battle of the Wits’, creating of being for the better. performance work when isolating during Covid-19 and being in the Music produced by Charles Jaiyeola.
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