A Packed Programme Of Shows This June At The Unity Theatre.

Unity Theatre has a packed month of shows in June, in the last month before the theatre closes for its redevelopment, which takes place over the summer.

From Thursday 2nd – Saturday 4th June, much-loved community theatre company, What We Did Next, return to Unity with the musical Urinetown; a social and political satire set in a fictional future.

Preggers, on 7th- 8th June is a one woman a show about motherhood and family. Parents with babes in arms are invited to attend the special 11am showing on 8 June. Straight from the West-End, on 10th – 11th June, catch Jim Cartwright’s Fringe First award-winning rollercoaster of a night out in modern Britain, RAZ.

Comic, poet and psychiatric nurse, Rob Gee performs his self-written Alzheimer’s whodunit, Forget Me Not on 9th June, and Nordic crime thriller, Roseacre visits on Tuesday 14th June.

The Diary of a Hounslow Girl on Thursday 16th June gives a bold and provocative insight into the life of many Pakistani girls living in West London and Rights Of Passage on Friday 17th June is a verbatim theatre production about the struggle of LGBT refugees as they seek asylum from anti-gay countries.

Former Hollyoaks actress and fashion model, Phina Oruche performs her one-woman show, Identity Crisis that looks at the history of black women in the media, incorporating stories of her own vibrant past, taking place on Wednesday 22nd June – Friday 24th June.

On 25th June Unity Theatre will hold its final shows delivered by its talented Youth Theatre, Then, Now and Neon Lights, as they reminisce about the past and look forward, asking “What does the future hold?”

Saturday Splatterdays, which is two hours full to the brim with games, making stuff and storytelling takes place on Saturdays 11th and 25th June, with sessions for ages 5-8s and 9-13s.

Unity Theatre closes between 25th June and 28th September for redevelopment. The Edinburgh preview shows will still take place on 21-23 July at the LJMU Makin Drama Centre next door. More information on these shows can be found on their website.

Tickets can be booked via Unity Theatre’s box office, on 0151 709 4988 or via www.unitytheatreliverpool.co.uk.

See the Unity Theatre home page for full details.