unityyouth Theatre

unityyouth Theatre (UYT) has been running at unity since 2004. Since then the group have produced two major heritage productions, previewed on unity’s stage, and this year have produced a short film and a comedy showcase with Big Wow Theatre Company.
Working along side professional theatre companies, performers and practitioners, UYT members gain valuable experience in the performing arts, acting skills, plus opportunities to perform on unity’s stages.

UYT meet on Mondays at unity 6pm-8.30pm. It’s open to all young people from the age’s 14-18years and although places are full at the moment we have a waiting list.

If you get your name down we’ll keep you up to date with invitations to workshops & details about events running throughout the unity season. Call 0844 873 2888 and leave your name and phone number.

Stuff to do, places to go, things to see, friends to meet.

Do you want to meet friends and find new places to hangout? Or are you looking for cool things to see and do in you spare time? www.findyourtalent.net may have the answer. It’s a new website for young people aged 11-19 in the Merseyside area.

You can find out about events and activities including arts, music, dance, design, fashion, film, heritage and digital media, from drop in sessions to clubs to join. If the limelight isn’t your thing, you can simply find out what’s on near you. You’ll find tonnes to do on your doorstep, as well as places where you can relax and be entertained. We hope to see you there!

For more information about what's going on in the Merseyside for young people go to the Find Your Talent website.

UYT History
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 unity Angels page for more information about how to donate.

unityyouth Theatre was founded in spring 2004 by Helen Flooks. To use her words “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 unity theatre’s 25th Birthday celebrations.”

Through the research UYT members did in developing the production, the group’s discovery of the roots of unity theatre as a passionate theatre movement fuelled by social injustice and the desire to provide theatre for the masses, inspired the young people to explore how people used theatre to raise awareness of social injustice.

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n June/ July 2005 UYT performed their first ever production, “History in the Making” running over 4 sell out nights at unity. They chose Make Poverty History campaign and the timing of the G8 summit and Hyde Park Concert could not have been planned better as our performances took place in the same week. UYT were invited to perform extracts from the play as part of the Liverpool Children’s Festival and also at Liverpool World Museum.

The Heritage Lottery Fund again supported UYT through their second major performance project, “Times Like These”. This time the focus of the groups’ heritage research was on youth, popular culture and social history from the 1950’s post war Liverpool to the present day. This time the research began a little closer to home with UYT members quizzing parents and grandparents as to their teenage crushes and must-haves. “Times Like These” premiered at unity in September 2007 once again to packed out audiences.

unityyouth Theatre founder Helen Flooks passed away in February 2008. To honour her plans to stage “Times Like These” in the capital of culture year, UYT performed the play in September 2008.

During the winter of 2008/09, UYT made a short film “Play for Time” which premiered at unity in the spring 2009. Entirely written, designed and storyboarded by the members themselves, the storyline is based on a youth theatre that faces closure in the light of property redevelopment and funding cuts.

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