A fitting finale for the Unity Theatre’s 2025 season comes in the form of Sleep Can Wait! – a heart-warming, high-energy journey through myths, legends, and imagination – lovingly curated by Unity Theatre and Liverpool-based theatre company, Tmesis Theatre. On a snowy winter’s night, with excitement in the air and sleep nowhere to be found, three children open a magical book, and are whisked away on an adventures far from the comfort of their bedroom!
Unity has been behaving radically onstage since the 1930s, with its roots in The Unity Theatre movement – a national theatrical initiative that produced politically left-wing works by and for working class audiences. Throughout the 40s, 50s & 60s, Unity were audaciously radical and experimental, staging politically and socially conscious contemporary works that challenged conventional theatre and addressed themes of workers’ rights, fascism and wider issues of inequality.
Today, Unity Theatre is the only surviving member of that movement, and the organisation continue its mission with the same sentiment dating back to the 30s – investing in local work, emerging artists and theatre companies – and producing high-quality radical and groundbreaking theatre that platforms underrepresented voices from the local community.
Unity Theatre has developed into not only a fantastic city-centre performance space but a fully-fledged cultural hub for Merseyside-based creatives and the wider community. Unity’s activity now extends far beyond the world of traditional theatre and programming, with a vibrant exhibition space, music events, film screenings, creative workshops and a dedicated talent development programme for emerging performance artists.
Join them for a heart-warming, high-energy journey through myths, legends, and imagination in this enchanting, physical theatre show, packed with fun, laughter, and wonder. The jewel in the Unity’s festive crown, this enchanting physical theatre show is packed with fun, laughter, and wonder – perfect for dreamers of all ages this winter season! Showing until 23rd December, the show is packed with lots of physicality and minimal text – the ultimate family- and neurodiverse-friendly production.
For tickets and further information please check the Unity Theatre Website.
