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For Everyone
Critical Conversations
20 May - 31 Jul 2020 In response to the climate emergency, we want to hear what you, our young audiences, are feeling, thinking and saying. | This year, you’ve been the strongest and most urgent voices about this global issue. We want to respond to your call to action. What do you feel about the global climat... Read more
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For everyone
Schools Programme 2019/20
20 May - 1 Jul 2020 | Visit our Primary and Secondary webpages for full details or sign up to our teacher mailing list to stay in the get regular schools' focussed updates. If you'd like a chat about any aspect of our programme, or make a booking contact schools@unicorntheatre.com . SUMMER 2019 S... Read more
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Age guide: 4 - 7
Aesop's Fables (Ages 4-7)
16 Jun - 4 Aug 2019 All the most interesting things are ambiguous. | 'You couldn’t hope for a more exciting line-up of contemporary playwrights.' Lyn Gardner at Stagedoor As far as we know, Aesop was a slave and storyteller who lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 564 BC. But although we don&rsqu... Read more
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Age guide: 8 - 12
Aesop's Fables (Ages 8-12)
21 Jun - 3 Aug 2019 All the most interesting things are ambiguous. | ' You couldn’t hope for a more exciting line-up of contemporary playwrights.' Lyn Gardner at Stagedoor As far as we know, Aesop was a slave and storyteller who lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 564 BC. But although we... Read more
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For everyone
Free Events
22 Jun - 4 Jul 2020 | OPEN HOUSE WEEKEND | Sun 22 Sep Join a free guided tour of award-winning building. Tours hourly 12pm - 4pm. Booking opens soon. UP CLUB | Most Saturdays 12 - 2pm Join the Unicorn Play Club most Saturdays from 12 – 2pm for free drop-in activities from portrait painting... Read more
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For everyone
Our 2019/20 season brochure
1 Jul - 31 Jul 2020 What's on Aug 19 - Jul 20 | Read more
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Age guide: 2 - 16
Summer Holidays
20 Jul - 4 Aug 2019 Shows and workshops | Join us during the Summer for extraordinary theatre and our ever-popular series of drama, dance and set design workshops. Tickets for Aesop’s Fables are £8 – 20, save 15% when booking 4 tickets (must include 1 adult/child). Workshops range from £... Read more
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Age guide: 3 - 12
Show-Themed Workshops
25 Jul - 20 Jun 2020 | UP CLUB+ Our extra special UP Club Plus activities are themed around shows and usually take place straight after a performance. To book for a show-themed workshop online, add tickets for the relevant show to your basket on a matching date and the event will show during the b... Read more
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Age guide: 7 - 16
Summer Holiday Workshops
29 Jul - 16 Aug 2019 -GET ON STAGE AND MAKE YOUR OWN SHOW! | Our creative workshops for ages 7 - 16 are back for the Summer holidays. Led by professional theatre-makers, you'll learn great new skills and make new friends. Choose from dance, set design, drama, puppetry and more. Workshops range from a day or two days, th... Read more
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Age guide: 8 – 12
15 Minutes Live
8 Sep 2019 A ONE-TIME ONLY EVENT FEATURING NEW SHORT RADIO PLAYS PERFORMED LIVE WITH AN ONSTAGE BAND. | Featuring plays by: Katherine Jakeways major comedy writing talent for theatre & TV | Nima Taleghani London-based writer, rapper & actor | Kenneth Emson BAFTA-nominated writer for theatre &... Read more
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Age guide: 3 - 7
Anansi the Spider
18 Sep - 27 Oct 2019 The greatest tales ever spun. | People say that in a time long, long ago, animals walked on two feet and spoke with words, like we do. And back then it was known by everyone that the cleverest of all the animals in the kingdom was a spider – the infamous Anansi – the original&... Read more
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Age guide: 9 - 13
Maggot Moon
26 Sep - 27 Oct 2019 "The Best Thing We Have Is Our Imagination..." | In a sinister 1950s Britain, the country is under the rule of the violent and oppressive Motherland. Dark government forces are at work. Spies and surveillance are everywhere, and the truth is difficult to discern. Meet our hero, Standish Treadwel... Read more
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For professionals
Unicorn Industry Get Together
15 Oct - 2 Apr 2020 | Each Get Together will include tickets to at least two performances across the day, a chance to meet the company and, where possible, there will be an opportunity to view the spaces, equipment and facilities available. Come and find out about our journey so far as well as plans for the future.&n... Read more
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Age guide: everyone 7+
Oscar Wilde's The Canterville Ghost
10 Nov - 5 Jan 2020 Get into the spirit of Christmas... | This wonderfully witty, delightfully spooky retelling of Oscar Wilde’s 1887 comic novel is brought to life this Christmas with spine-tingling magic, spectacular illusions and ghoulish effects. Mr and Mrs Otis and their boisterous children arr... Read more
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The Unicorn on Tour
14 Nov - 21 Nov 2019 | We're pleased to announce that our highly successful 2018 co-production with Untitled Projects, The End of Eddy , will be playing at New York’s Brooklyn Academy of Music as part of their Next Wave Festival this autumn. The End of Eddy previously played at the 2018 Edinburgh In... Read more
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Age guide: 3 - 7
The Wolf, the Duck and the Mouse
15 Nov - 5 Jan 2020 INSIDE A MODERN FAIRYTALE. | One day Mouse is gobbled up by a wolf. ‘Oh woe’ says Mouse, who fears this must be the end. But then we discover Duck, who was, until Mouse arrived, taking a nap. As it turns out, it’s pretty nice living inside the belly of the beast with ... Read more
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Strictly for ages 6-18 months
Scrunch
27 Nov - 22 Dec 2019 IT’S BABY’S FIRST CHRISTMAS. | ★★★★ WhatsOnStage (2014) This gorgeous, sensory show from the makers of our highly successful, long-running Baby Show returns to delight babies and parents alike this festive season. As you sit together in our cosy space, share in your baby&rsquo... Read more
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Age guide: 8 - 12
The Bee In Me
31 Jan - 1 Mar 2020 LET’S FLY AWAY. | One ordinary boy living an ordinary life. Every day the same: parents still asleep, late again for school, can’t find his clean trousers. But today is different. Today is a game. Today he has wings. Fly out of your room. Congratulations! Level two. Get dressed, find bre... Read more
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Age guide: 11 - 14
I, Cinna (the poet)
5 Feb - 29 Feb 2020 WRITE A REVOLUTION. | The poet Cinna hardly says a word in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar before he’s mistaken for someone else and torn to pieces by an angry mob. He’s Shakespeare’s unluckiest character. Now Cinna searches for the subject of his next poem and invites us... Read more
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Age guide: everyone 7+
Gulliver's Travels
15 Mar - 3 May 2020 A wondrous world, a different perspective. | This perfect family Easter show is an adventure-filled modern adaptation of Jonathan Swift’s surreal masterpiece. Three bored teenagers left behind in the school gym. Together, with camera, projector and props, they bring vividly to life Gullive... Read more
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Age guide: 2 - 6
Wild
17 Mar - 3 May 2020 “You cannot tame something so happily wild...” | Wild’s home is the forest. Bears teach her how to eat, birds help her to speak, and foxes show her how to play. She is irrepressibly wild. Then one day, some new animals arrive. They look oddly like her – and they want to... Read more
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Age Guide: 4 - 7
Robotology
19 May - 21 Jun 2020 THE FUTURE, FRIENDSHIP AND ROBOTS. | Imagine the future. Imagine living in space. Imagine that robots are very much like humans, but maybe smarter, tidier and NEVER cross or tired or sad. Your best friend is a robot. This is mostly great, but sometimes hard because robots can’t really have... Read more
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