Liverpool’s celebrated independent arts venue, Unity Theatre, has revealed its Autumn/Winter 2025 programme, a diverse line-up of theatre, music, and performance that champions creativity beyond the mainstream. Staying true to its founding mission, Unity continues to spotlight underrepresented voices and push boundaries on stage.
Here’s some of their October highlights:
A celebration of songwriting and a re-telling of the most famous band ever. Journey through the timeless classics of Liverpool’s own, The Beatles, reimagined and reworked into a jazz setting to tell a story of friendship, growth and triumph through the art of storytelling and songwriting. Featuring the iconic classics of protest, peace, place, time, love and loss, told in never-heard-before expressive free-form jazz, Latin-jazz and blues, will leave you breathless as some of the finest international jazz musicians bring to life and explore the music of John, Paul, George and Ringo.
A twisted game of power and desire… Jean Genet’s The Maids returns to Unity Theatre on 15th & 16th October after 30 years! That Theatre Group CIC brings together stalwarts from Liverpool’s theatre scene in what was to be Graeme Phillips’ directorial follow-up to last year’s critically acclaimed Krapp’s Last Tape. Exploring themes of oppression, isolation and incarceration, Unity’s Artistic Director Elinor Randle will direct a modern and radical interpretation of the classic – fusing opera, spectacle and movement. The production is inspired by the Unity’s former Artistic Director, the late Graeme Phillips MBE, who originally directed the play first in 1992 and then began working on the new interpretation, but sadly died earlier this month.
This is a story about passive aggressive letter writing, early morning jet washing and making a house a home. It’s about those who live, laugh and love meters from us, but who really, we barely know at all. A roughly seventy-two minute show, read from a little black book, by a scruffy, bearded, glasses-wearing man in a red check shirt and black jeans who does not own a pressure washer. A new storytelling show** by Sam Freeman (Every Little Hope You Ever Dreamed, Every Time I Close My Eyes).
