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Unanima Theatre are delivering a Heritage Lottery funded project.
Collecting Stories – instigated and managed by Southwell Care Project – is a participatory arts and heritage initiative, enabling adults with learning disabilities to explore their local heritage, collect and share stories and create a theatre/film installation based on the experience.
Check out the blog for Collecting Stories here,
Hilarious You Tube Film
Watch this hilarious short film and do a good deed at the same time!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfFpC8uhkn8
Our fabulous founding member, Cissy is part of a women’s footie team in London and they are up for some fantastic sponsorship. Just watch and share the vid, each view gathers votes.
The Guardian – Case for Culture
Can you spot our Creative Director in this Guardian article?
Follow the link;
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture-professionals-network/culture-professionals-blog/interactive/2012/dec/07/case-for-culture-100-voices
Unanima Theatre helping to make a case for culture.
We only need £10,000 per year to make great art happen.
Can you help us?
office.unanima@gmail.com
Article in Nottingham Evening Post
Mis-quoted and slightly disgruntled!
If you read the article in yesterday’s Nottingham Evening Post (page 7 of Monday 24th September issue) we would like you to know that Jayne Lewis, our Creative Director, was mis-quoted. We were pleased to have an article in such a well known paper and the photograph looks great but it wasn’t the story we agreed to. Here is the actual press release which Jayne wrote;
World Event Young Artists
Our family friendly comedy performance of Horace went down a storm on Wednesday, at the very first WEYA Festival in Nottingham.
It rained…then it poured, but the audience still roared with laughter!
Here are a few photos courtesy of Ian Dearman Media www.iandearmanmedia.co.uk
Paralympics are go!
We are so excited for the Paralympics which open with a spectacular ceremony this evening (as we write).
Our contribution is having the finishing rehearsal touch ups as we speak! Come and see us perform HORACE at the East Midlands Olympiad and international festival – WEYA!
http://worldeventyoungartists.com/
World Event Young Artists will provide fantastic creative exhibitions, performances, film and experiences across Nottingham City. Catch us on market square, Wednesday 12th September from 1pm.
Our unique, family friendly, comic ensemble performance, HORACE pays homage to the Olympics with a gold medal winning egg and spoon race! Don’t miss it!
Calling all shoppers!
Unanima Theatre have been chosen as one of three worthy projects for the ‘Community Matters’ scheme at Newark Waitrose.
All you have to do is take a green token and pop it in the Unanima box to help us gain some of the funds.
You can help us continue to create new opportunities for adults with learning disabilities to work in equality with young people and arts professionals, to produce unique theatre and film.
Just DROP a token in our box, each time you SHOP at Newark Waitrose!
Southwell Folk Festival
Our Creative Producer, Tracy has just been on the main stage at Southwell Folk Festival, soundchecking for Horace tomorrow.
Come down and see us, Sunday, 4.15 to 4.45pm.
It’s gonna be a jubilant jubilee!!!
The sun bursting through the doors of the main arena, at Southwell Folk Festival
Horace! What the audience think.
Here is a small selection of audience comments and tweets from our new play ‘Horace’; March 21st & 22nd.
‘Witty, thought-provoking and truly inclusive and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Well done…fantastic.’
‘Brilliant, loads of energy, a great mixture of funny visual humour and everyone supporting each other.’
‘First time I’ve seen anything like this and I found it quite uplifting, it made me smile just about all the way through, enjoyable, very enjoyable.’
‘I really enjoyed it. It was good fun doing the work and it was great to watch.’ Volunteer Technician
‘Loved the slow-motion egg and spoon race to chariots of fire and then the superman theme tune…fantastic mix of music!’
‘It was the best yet and the others have been good. Listening to the narration was amazing.’
‘I saw one of the flyers and thought it looked interesting. It was a great story, good choice of music and really well illustrated with the choreography with all the props going round.’
‘I wanted it to be longer…I could watch it all over again.’
‘I started a group here nearly forty years ago, just so that we would raise confidence and feel happy walking the streets, let alone creating a show and showing off so beautifully. It has been a marvellous evening. I have a great affinity with you all; it has been a marvellous journey for me.’ Parent of an adult with a learning disability
‘It went really well, we’re really pleased…and I don’t think anything went wrong.’ Performer
‘Glad it’s over ‘cos I’m tired. Want to do another one though. I’ve gained confidence to do more shows. Can we do a horror one next?’ Performer
‘Major Ace Babe! Rock on.’ Performer
Some Tweets…
@Buzville Your website looks like you do amazing work, really sorry I missed Horace L
@MansfieldMuseum A big #ff to @unanimatheatre your performance last night was brilliant!
@IanMunch Has just seen the @unanimatheatre show Horace & it is GENIUS!…if you don’t mind! Completely fun & funny J
@newsteadjodie The show was brilliant! You did a great job!! Loved the chair swimming @unanimatheatre #horace
@Storymoves #horace #disabilityarts Loved the egg and spoon race and the upside down sheep cloud – keep it!
@TheDrummer3 went to see #horace this evening! Was gr8! Well done everyone involved
@Gareth_Stubbs Just been to see #Horace at minster school Southwell @unanimatheatre fantastic go for tomorrows performance 7pm
New play by Unanima Theatre!
Two nights only! Book either Wednesday 21st March or Thursday 22nd March…or book both nights if you’d like to see it twice!
Unanima Theatre’s new play HORACE is the story of one man, with one chance, to get a job, get a life, and even get the perfect wife. Will he succeed or will that thing that niggles within, prevent him from winning? The thing that still brings tears to his bi-focalled eyes…the school bully!
Join Horace as he decides to take a look at the world from a different angle.
All tickets only £3. Wednesday 21st & Thursday 22nd March, 7pm at The Minster School Drama Theatre. (Free parking)
Family friendly comedy, created and performed by Epic award runners up; Unanima Theatre.
Approximate duration: 45 minutes
