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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
Winners of a 2nd Prize Epic Award!
We managed to gather 25% of all votes spread across the 26 shortlisted groups and projects!
Here’s a snippet from the Epic awards website www.epicawards.co.uk
Unanima Theatre came second in England, and also notched up an impressive 13,526 votes in the People’s Choice award!
Creative Director Jayne Lewis commented: “This was the first award nomination for Unanima Theatre so we were delighted to be shortlisted. To go on and win a 2nd place Epic Award from the expert panel vote is a fantastic achievement. But also being runners up of the People’s Choice, with 13,500 votes, closely behind a well-established group with hundreds of members is amazing for a project from a small town in Nottinghamshire. The Epic Awards have hugely raised the profile of Unanima Theatre, both regionally and nationally, gaining recognition from Voluntary Arts England. We would urge any voluntary arts organisations and projects across the UK to get involved.
We would like to The Minster School and Southwell Care Project. Thank you to Nottinghamshire County Council and Arts Council England. Special thanks to all of our wonderful participants, performers, voters, promoters, supporters and dear friends who give us the inspiration to share, connect, communicate and create unique theatre and film. We shall all celebrate together and look forward to our exciting new play in March.”
‘Epic’ Press Release in Mailout.co
An ‘Epic’ New Year as Nottinghamshire’s Unanima Theatre is nominated for National awardPosted on January 5, 2012
As the festive tinsel is taken off the tree and the New Year cheer turns to indigestion, January can often be a month of post-party blues. But for Southwell based participatory arts project Unanima Theatre, the New Year offers exciting opportunities as they are nominated and shortlisted for a National Epic award.
The Epic awards are an initiative by Voluntary Arts Network, the national agency for arts participation, which shines the spotlight on projects like Unanima Theatre, across the UK, to raise awareness of the fantastic work they produce.
Unanima Theatre is a collaborative performance project that brings together adults with learning disabilities and young people aged 16+, to work with arts professionals, for the shared purpose of creating theatre and film. They were nominated for the Epic award in November for a unique piece of theatre that they developed, devised and performed. ‘Everyday People’ was an exploration of identity and individuality that shared the group’s experiences of independence and standing out from the crowd.
The performance, which was funded by an Arts Council grant, awarded to partner charity Southwell Care Project and hosted by The Minster School in April 2011, gathered great positive feedback from audiences across Nottinghamshire.
Unanima Theatre’s Creative Producer Tracy Radford says; ‘It is so exciting that ‘Everyday People’ has made it to the shortlist for an Epic award. Our volunteer participants work tremendously hard to raise awareness of the benefits to social inclusion and community cohesion that this kind of arts project can offer. To make it to the final seven from hundreds of fantastic projects across England is an amazing achievement and a win would be even better. As it becomes ever more difficult to secure funding for this work to continue, this kind of recognition is of great benefit, so please vote!’
The Epic awards will be judged by a panel of experts and a winner and runner up will be announced from each area; England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, in late January. But there is also a chance to vote for your favourite project to win a People’s Award. So get behind your local community and help bring home an Epic award to Nottinghamshire.
Visit: www.epicawards.co.uk/shortlist and click on the green thumbs up underneath Unanima Theatre.
Follow Unanima Theatre on Twitter @unanimatheatre or Facebook:Unanima Southwell
Epic Awards
Unanima Theatre is EPIC…
We have made it to the short-list for an Epic Award from the Voluntary Arts Network! HOORAY!!!
There is a panel vote and the winner will be announced in January and YOU CAN HELP us by supporting us in the People’s Vote.
Follow the link and click on the green thumb under Unanima Theatre (second row down) Voting closes on 16th Jan.
http://www.epicawards.co.uk/shortlist/
We are one of seven in the England shortlist alongside other projects from Wales, Scotland and Ireland.
Please vote Unanima Theatre!
New camera
Some interesting results from a novice trying out manual settings on the new camera (and evidence that Jayne needs some more photography lessons!)
Are they just blurred visions of today’s rehearsals of Horace or accidental works of art? Tell us what you think.
Unanima on XFactor!
Please watch and ‘Like’ our XFactor ad vid and get us on TV next weekend (15th & 16th October).
Fantastic First Session…
Fantastic first session of a new exciting term was had on Wednesday with twelve established participants along with two fresh faces.
Amazing words and phrases were discovered, created, post-it’ed and strung together using the essence of an exercise from the Playwriting book by the unique genius that was Noel Greig.
Buy the book: ISBN 978-0-415-31044-4
We are back!
* New term, Wednesday 28th September, same time, same place *
Hello Unanima members,
Hope you had a fantastic summer.
We missed you all and look forward to seeing you at our first session back on Wednesday 28th September.
See you then.
Jayne & Tracy.xxx
