2pm & 6pm
Perfect for brave children aged 9+ and their families.
From the Team that brought you When Another Dragon Roars
Do you enjoy stories about ghosts, witches, and things that go bump in the night? You do?
Then join Edward and Martha Creep as they share terrifying tales that will make you gasp, gawp, and grin.
Please say you’ll come, we’re dying to meet you!
Featuring Altered Scale Theatre’s outstanding puppetry and Petite Ullaloom’s unique storytelling, Spooky Tales is a Halloween treat!
6pm-8pm
Join the multi award winning Ugly Bucket in a workshop exploring the endless possibilities of verbatim and devising.
Verbatim is a key feature of Ugly Bucket’s work to date; Personal testimony can be a dynamic tool to tell honest stories and devise exciting, perspective changing productions.
Together we can focus on how we can care for the communities we bring into our work, and explore different forms to show these stories on stage.
Participants will devise with verbatim from previous Ugly Bucket productions, learning more about documentary style theatre as we create.
Matthew Kelly and George Costigan star in a new staging of Samuel Beckett’s classic play – in which absolutely nothing happens.
Set in a shifting, timeless landscape, Waiting for Godot follows two men, Vladimir and Estragon, as they wait for someone who may never come. As they pass the time with scraps of conversation, moments of tenderness and flashes of dark humour, their story becomes a moving reflection on what it means to keep going in a world that rarely offers answers.
Beckett’s timeless play endures as one of the defining works of the 20th century and returns to our stage in all its strange, funny and heart-breaking brilliance. Darkly comic and deeply moving, Waiting for Godot is a profound exploration of what it means to be human – even when the waiting never ends.
7:30pm
Everything was perfect in the midnight garden. The flowers grew, the fairies flew, the grobbity grobbits danced a merry dance in the twinkly moonlight. Then one day, without warning, the deranged gardener from next door threw the shed door wide, and let loose the massive-evil pitchfork-of-doom!
PIXIEMATOSIS is a happy/sad tale of tiny extraordinary creatures living in a nocturnal paradise who realise, far too late, that they are being exploited for a distinctly sinister purpose.
Featuring sqwonky puppets, odd-automata and a slew of charity-shop rejects, PIXIEMATOSIS is not unlike watching a lost episode of Bagpuss, filmed by the Tales of the Unexpected crew… or witnessing Fingermouse being folded up and used to stop a pub table wobbling.
Come along, be charmed, be appalled; get swept up in the existential madness of it all, Plus Meet the puppets on stage after the performance!
“We loved Pixiematosis and people still talk about how brilliant it was.”
Jack Robson – Crediton Arts Centre
“There is a lot of love in this show. Surprises delightful and traumatic. Laughter and horror. I highly recommend it.”
Audience member – Ashburton Arts Centre
The Team
Marc Parrett – Writer, director, designer, performer
Nicole Colbert – Director, technician, creative support
Ione Vaughan – Associate Producer
Shady billionaires make plans to colonise and mine the solar system, and our nearest celestial neighbour has something to say about it. A clowning show performed by Meg Hodgson with live sound from Livvy Lynch, MOONFACE is a funny and exuberant love letter to our rocky satellite that explores what it means to be human. Expect burlesque and drag-style numbers, testimony from survivors of human-made disasters, and movement inspired by the gravitational interactions between Earth and moon.
8pm
UNITY CHRISTMAS CABARET IS BACK!
After last year’s anarchic success, our cabaret is back to entertain you with comedy, acro, puppets and more, featuring Velma Von BonBon, Katy Anne Bellis, Caustic Widows and Teatro Pomodoro!
Perfect for works Xmas parties, to enquire email info@unitytheatre.co.uk
6-8pm
Free for Creative’pool subscribers when you book a ticket to see Graeae’s production of Bad Lads. Workshop spaces limited.
This workshop explores the challenges when writing a living person’s narrative. We will explore the responsibility, sensitivity of the process and the emotional complexity of writing people’s stories.
Each person will share a short segment of their lives and then write the starting point for writing a segment they have heard from another person. We will encourage people only share what they feel comfortable with as we move through the process.
ACCESS The workshop is held in a wheelchair accessible space and is audio described and BSL interpreted. Any materials will also be provided also standard, large print, and easy read formats.
If you have access requirements not covered here, please email jodi@graeae.org upon booking to discuss how else we can support you to participate.
H.G. Wells’s classic novel retold byimitating the dogSupported by Lancaster Arts and Cast, Doncaster
“Life is real again, and the useless and cumbersome and mischievous have to die.”– H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds
Four performers enter the stage with cameras and construct an epic road movie before our eyes.
It’s a story we know, or think we know – an apocalyptic tale of alien invasion and the unfolding destruction of everything we hold dear. Extraterrestrial lifeforms land from the skies. Lines of Brits scrabble to flee across the channel while their cities and towns lie in smouldering ruins. It’s all of our worst nightmares.
What would you do if order broke down?
What would you do to survive?
How far would you go to protect your own?
Using miniature environments, model worlds, camera tricks, and projection, imitating the dog mix the live and the recorded, the animate and the inanimate to create a thrilling, audacious and timely retelling of H.G. Wells’s classic novel.
Following their acclaimed adaptations of literary classics Heart of Darkness (2018), Dracula (2021), Macbeth (2023) and Frankenstein (2024), “multimedia daredevils” (The Times) imitating the dog push their inventive storytelling to new heights.
The legendary production of Susan Hill’s chilling ghost story The Woman in Black returns to Liverpool Playhouse
One of the most successful and longest running theatre shows in the history of London’s West End, this gripping production is a brilliantly successful study in atmosphere, illusion and controlled horror. Now seen by over 7 million people worldwide, The Woman in Black continues to delight and terrify audiences of all generations.
Obsessed with a curse that he believes has been cast over him and his family by the spectre of a Woman in Black, Arthur Kipps engages a sceptical young actor to help him tell his terrifying story and exorcise the fear that grips his soul.
The Sandbox Showcase – Edition Four
Presented by Let’s Make Films CIC
? Picturehouse @ FACT – Liverpool
The Sandbox Showcase is Liverpool’s alternative creative film night. A vibrant evening built around the bold and exciting short pieces of work, the emerging filmmakers and creatives and a community-led night that is bursting with creative energy and life. All here to celebrate the work on the biggest screen.
Now in its fourth edition, The Sandbox has become a creative home for filmmakers who are doing things differently! First-timers, grassroots crews, DIY Storytellers and new voices that have exciting stories to tell!
The event takes place at Picturehouse @ FACT and features a carefully curated lineup of 10-12 short pieces of work. Some are emotional, some are experimental, some are terrifying, but most importantly, all of them bring a unique voice to the big screen. You will get a chance to hear from the creatives about their work and process before screening their work. The night will also include the winner of our special DIY challenge, a quarterly filmmaking challenge that pushes creatives to make something from nothing.
The Sandbox isn’t just a screening either. We offer a pre-creative mixer before the show starts where you can get yourself a drink and relax and mingle with your fellow creatives and community. And even better, after the final film rolls, you can continue the conversation in the bar in the post-creative mixer and meet the creatives behind the work that you loved seeing.
What to expect throughout the night:
If you’re an emerging filmmaker, creative, artists, storyteller, or just a film-fan looking for something different in the city, then the Sandbox is perfect for you.
So, come along, bring a mate, come by yourself, grab a drink and be part of special night that belongs to the creatives.