7:30pm
There’s no place like home… apparently. Claire has tried moving cities. She’s tried finding queer community. She’s therapised herself to the point of almost actually wanting to live. Man, she’s even tried clicking her heels three times, but nothing seems to work.
The thing is, Claire is always being told to ‘go back home’, and they’ve had enough, so this time they’re really doing it. Through a combo of full-on oversharing, dramatic storytelling, and a bit of audience participation (consider yourself warned), this darkly comic solo show explores intersectional identities, marginalised communities, and the unconventional ways that we find home.
Homotopia Festival 2026 is back: We Come Together
This autumn, the UK’s longest-running LGBTQIA+ arts and culture festival returns to Liverpool with a new theme and a simple invitation: We Come Together.
We come together to gather around a stage. To fill the dancefloor. To join a workshop. To sing with others. To discover a new artist. To celebrate Queer brilliance. To remember our histories and imagine new futures together.
Across October and November, Homotopia Festival 2026: We Come Together will bring artists, audiences and communities together across Liverpool for a celebration of Queer creativity in all its forms. Expect bold performance, visual art, film, music, comedy, club culture, workshops, conversation and plenty of collective joy.
What’s on at Unity?
NATURAL BEHAVIOUR
Saturday 7th November | 7:30pm
Dance theatre company Thick & Tight presents their award-winning show Natural Behaviour, a collection of performed portraits of human and non-human life forms.
RAISING THE WRECK: REVISITED
Thursday 12th November | 7:30pm
Forty years after its groundbreaking premiere an iconic piece of British queer theatre returns for a new generation. For centuries four women pirates have been lying on a wreck at the bottom of the sea.
Fag Packet: DYKE Systems Ltd
Thursday 19th November | 7:30pm
An anarchic cocktail of comedy and physical theatre and a sharp, subversive takedown of pyramid schemes, ruthless heteronormativity and corporate feminism.
Homotopia x Unity Scratch Night
Wednesday 25th November | 7:30pm
Come and join us for a fantastic night of new queer work from local artists at Unity!
Kim Blythe: Puzzle
Saturday 21st November | 7:30PM
Kim Blythe is back with her brand new show Puzzle.
A remarkable true story from behind the scenes of some of Hollywood’s biggest films of the 90s is coming to Liverpool this autumn.
The acclaimed one-woman show She’s Electric: My Strange but True Story tells the extraordinary story of Vanessa Woolf, who spent a decade as the only woman working successfully as an electrician in the UK film industry.
Prior to her current role as a top professional storyteller, she helped light the sets of major Hollywood productions — powering up some of the world’s biggest stars.
Blending humour, nostalgia and heartfelt storytelling, She’s Electric offers audiences a fascinating glimpse behind the scenes of iconic movies while exploring themes of resilience, determination and breaking barriers. A must for lovers of storytelling and comedy, the performance is “funny, nostalgic, true… and it’s got Alec Baldwin in it.”
The Capstone Theatre on Friday 9th October at 7.30pm
Tickets available now via the Capstone Theatre website priced at £12, with £10 concessions available, plus booking fee.
Content warnings: Sexual threat, drug use, mild swearing.
Prepare to be flown into a proper Liver‑tale, where an evil prin has had an awful day and decides, “I’ll take your voices away!” A group of cheeky children journey through the Every‑Man of Ever‑After Woods, past the Walton Wand Shop, through The Cavern of Creatures and into the Lark Lane Labyrinth to recapture their voices and face their greatest fears!
Come witness a story of friendship and self‑discovery, blending the mythical with the fabulously Scouse, packed with physical theatre, clowning, comedy and celebrations from the YEP 14-17 Actors.
YEP is supported by Backstage Trust, Brabners, Lady Anne Dodd, Garfield Weston Foundation, The Hemby Trust and The Steel Charitable Trust
1888. Rodney Street…
Holmes, Watson and Mrs Hudson’s first Christmas away from London. They’re settling in for a relaxing, festive holiday in their new Liverpool lodgings, when a snow-covered cob of horse manure hits the window. It heralds the arrival of a new conundrum for Christmas. Or, as they say around here… sh*t happens.
Join Andrew Schofield, Catherine Rice and Rob Jarvis—plus whoever isn’t doing panto, in this exciting Yuletide audio playdio romp packed with mystery, mischief and seasonal cheer.
With sounds provided by Alan (Dr) Watson.
Experience a Victorian Christmas from the comfort of the 21st century as they take outrageous liberties with the 19th.
On long wave, short wave… and give us a wave.
7:30PM
The Leap is a movement and storytelling piece that weaves together physical theatre, puppetry, and personal history. Partly inspired by the performer’s own family story, it traces the journeys of Portuguese emigrants who crossed the Pyrenees barefoot in the 1960s, leaving behind poverty in search of a different future. The Leap explores what we carry with us, what we leave behind, and how these journeys shape our sense of identity and belonging.
A man wakes up in a Manchester hospital in the mid eighties and tries to piece together what led to his almost fatal downfall.
Stephen Porter’s sold-out Fringe show mixes poetry, stand-up and song to tell its darkly funny tale.
Songs from Daisy Summerfield.
18+
Dare to Dream is an interactive piece of theatre exploring health equity. It has been created with the voices of communities at its centre, and represents these through song, stories, poetry and performance. Come and find out how people in Liverpool, Sefton, and Knowsley think about health, and how they imagine better outcomes for everyone. All venues are wheelchair accessible. The performance will include integrated audio description and BSL interpretation.
Tickets are free but advance booking is encouraged.
https://actionnetwork.org/events/dare-to-dream-a-journey-to-health-utopia/
Dare to Dream is an interactive piece of theatre exploring health equity. It has been created with the voices of communities at its centre, and represents these through song, stories, poetry and performance. Come and find out how people in Liverpool, Sefton, and Knowsley think about health, and how they imagine better outcomes for everyone.
All venues are wheelchair accessible. Performances include integrated audio description and BSL interpretation.
Tickets are free but advance booking is encouraged.
https://actionnetwork.org/events/dare-to-dream-a-journey-to-health-utopia-3/
Dare to Dream is an interactive piece of theatre exploring health equity. It has been created with the voices of communities at its centre, and represents these through song, stories, poetry and performance. Come and find out how people in Liverpool, Sefton, and Knowsley think about health, and how they imagine better outcomes for everyone.
All venues are wheelchair accessible. The performance will include integrated audio description and BSL interpretation.
Tickets are free but advance booking is encouraged.
https://actionnetwork.org/events/dare-to-dream-a-journey-to-health-utopia-2/
