unityyouththeatre (UYT) has been running at unitytheatre since 2004.
Working along side professional theatre companies, performers and practitioners, unityyouththeatre members gain valuable experience in the performing arts, developing a wide variety of skills in improvisation, storytelling, devising and acting techniques to create original performances plus opportunities to perform on unity's stages.
UYT meet on Mondays at unitytheatre 6pm-8.30pm. It’s open to all young people from the age’s 14-18 years.
Please note: places are full at the moment but we do have a waiting list.
For more information e-mail:
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Current Projects
Uprising - A Film/Performance project. UYT have been working on a six month research project into the social and political context of the Toxteth uprising of 1981. unityyouththeatre and Clapperboard Youth Project present a short documentary and dramatic presentation in connection with the current Toxteth 1981 exhibition at the International Slavery Museum and as part of the Black History Month events.
The group have been writing a blog on their experiences so far...catch up with them at
http://blog.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/
Uprising is on Friday 28th October at 7.00pm.
For booking details, tickets and more information follow this link to the National Museums website:
http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/events/displayevent.aspx?eventID=6553&venue=10
Past performances
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2005 - History in the Making explored the political origins of the unity and left theatre movements, an insightful and touching piece of drama.
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2006 - Performed reworked extracts from the play as part of the Liverpool Children's Festival and Liverpool World Museum.
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2007 - Times Like These focused on youth, popular culture and social history from the 1950's Liverpool to the present day.
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2008 - Play for Time, a short film which premiered at unity in Spring 2009. Entirely written, designed and story-boarded by the members themselves, storyline is based on a youth theatre that faces closure in the light of property redevelopment and funding cuts.
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2009 - UYTV, sketch/performance based on our nation's obsession for reality television.
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2010 - Our Generation, based around 30 stories about life in contemporary Britain as a teenager.
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2011 - Dark Side of the unity, an edgy, alternative mythology on the history of unity's historical building.
About
unityyouththeatre was founded in Spring 2004 by HelenFlooks.
“unitytheatre has provided arts based activities for children aged 5 – 13 years for well over a decade. It seemed like a logical progression to develop a project for the next age group up and the Heritage Lottery Fund made it possible to create a UYT project as part of unitytheatre’s 25th Birthday celebrations”
Helen Flooks (UYT Founder)
unityyouththeatre founder Helen Flooks passed away in February 2008.
To honour her, Times Like These was performed in the Capital of Culture year, September 2008.
Spin The Angel
To commemorate and pay tribute to Helen’s infectious energy and her sincere commitment to nurturing and encouraging the creative talents of children and young people, unity are delighted to announce the launch of Spin The Angel
This fund is exclusively to support children & young people’s projects at unity.
Your donation, however small, will make it possible for us to continue to grow and to support an increasingly vibrant programme of creative education projects.
Please see the
unityangels page for more information about how to
donate.
Thank you
