Unity Theatre Trust

UNITY THEATRE TRUST
The Trust

The Trust was set up as a charity in the spirit of the traditions of the theatre and its history with the purpose:

"To advance the education of the public by fostering, promoting and increasing the interest of the public in the art of drama and in the co-related arts"

Unity Theatre Trust is a Registered UK Charity (No.210387) and is governed by a Board of Trustees.

UNITY THEATRE TRUST
Archives

The trust maintains an archive of heritage materials relevant to the theatre.

If you would like to access the Archives please follow the procedure below:

Unity Theatre Archives are now housed at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in Blythe House.

The Unity Archive can be viewed in the V&A reading room in West Kensington by appointment. The V&A archive catalogue can be searched at this link and appointments to view material can be made directly with the V & A.

The reading room is located in Blythe House near the Kensington Olympia exhibition centre. The nearest station is Kensington Olympia on the District and Overground lines. They are open Tuesday-Friday, 10.15am-4.30pm.

This is a free service but an appointment must be made.

V&A Theatre & Performance Enquiry Service Blythe House 23 Blythe Road London W14 0QX

UNITY THEATRE TRUST
Trustees & Administration

Clive Gehle
Trustee/Chair
Dike Okoh
Trustee/Vice Chair
Kayelle O'Donoghue
Trustee
Ann Mitchell
Trustee
Clare Kenny
Trustee
Ayvianna Snow
Trustee
Shola Adewusi
Trustee
Jason Wing
Trustee

Michael Kennard
Treasurer
Sean Chiles
Secretary

UNITY THEATRE TRUST

Terms of Use & Privacy

Unity Theatre Trust Website Privacy Policy & Terms of Use

1.Privacy Policy

The Unity Theatre Trust (UTT) is very respectful about the privacy concerns of the visitors to any of its sites on the Internet.

Information we collect and how we use it:

As a general policy, no personal information is automatically collected from passing visitors to its sites. However, certain non-personal information is recorded by the standard operation of its Internet servers. This information is primarily used to provide an enhanced online experience for the visitor and to provide UTT with non-personally identifiable statistics about use of the sties.

UTT websites use session cookies when you browse them. These cookies do not contain any personally identifying information.

The collection, storage, and use of any information that we collect about you in relation to your application for the awarding, and administration, of a Grant is for the sole use of enabling the Trustees to decide about grant or Bursary applications and will be in accordance with the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). We process this information under GDPR Article 6(1)(b) relating to Contract. When an application is successful and a grant awarded, we will keep this information for 6 years. When an application is unsuccessful, we will keep the information for 2 years and then delete or destroy it.

To communicate with you, except in the context of any grant application or award or administration of a grant, we will obtain your specific consent. We use this information only for our own organisation and we will not sell or otherwise transfer it outside the organisation. Where we send out email newsletters they will always contain instructions on how to discontinue receipt and how to unsubscribe from our mailing list. You can unsubscribe at any time. We process this information under GDPR Article 6(1)(a) relating to Consent. We will keep your consents until you remove them.

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Where and how we store your information:

We take reasonable manual and automatic measures to protect Personal Data within our organisation. We store your information on a protected server that is regularly scanned for malware and viruses. Our website is hosted on a server using SSL technology and that is regularly scanned for malware and viruses. Physical records are kept under lock and key and only accessible to authorised people.

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If we discover that your information has been accessed irregularly we will let you know about it by email no less than 72 hours from the date of discovery. If you have reason to believe that Your information has been accessed irregularly you should contact us immediately to let us know.

Your rights:

If you are a European Union resident you have the right to:

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If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact at ObscureMyEmail or through any of the means indicated. A fee will apply for processing the requests listed above. If we are unable to action your request due to legal reasons outside our control we will let you know.

2.Terms of Use

Please read these Terms Of Use carefully before using this site.

By using this site, you signify your understanding of and agreement with these Terms Of Use. If you do not agree with any of the below Terms Of Use, do not use this site.

The Unity Theatre Trust reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to modify, alter or otherwise update these Terms Of Use at any time and you agree to be bound by such modifications, alterations or updates.

2.1 Trademarks, Copyrights and Restrictions

This site is controlled and operated by The Unity Theatre Trust, 93 Hurstbourne Road, Londond SE23 2AQ, England. All material on this site, including, but not limited to images, illustrations, audio clips, and video clips, is protected by copyrights which are owned and controlled by Unity Theatre Trust, or by other parties that have licensed their material to Unity Theatre Trust. Material from unitytheatre.org.uk or any website owned, operated, licensed or controlled by Unity Theatre Trust may be accessed copied printed and downloaded in an unaltered form, with copyright acknowledged, on a temporary basis, only for personal study and strictly for non-commercial use. Written permission from the Trust must be obtained for any other use including reproduction in any form, display in any form, performance or transmission by any means.

Applications for permission as required above should in the first instance, be addressed to:

The Secretary to the Trust by E-mail at: ObscureMyEmail or by Mail to:93 Hurstbourne Road, London, SE23 2AQ, England 2.2 Linked Sites

Unity Theatre Trust, whether or not affiliated with sites which may be linked to this site, is not responsible for their content. The Linked Sites are for your convenience only and you access them at your own risk. Those sites may have their own Terms of Use and Privacy Policies and you should consult them independently.

2.3 Disclaimer

The materials in Unity Theatre Trust's Web Sites are provided "as is" and without warranties of any kind either express or implied. To the fullest extent permissible pursuant to applicable law, Unity Theatre Trust disclaims all warranties, express or implied, including, but not limited to, implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose.

Unity Theatre Trust does not warrant that the functions contained in the materials will be uninterrupted or error-free, that defects will be corrected, or that Unity Theatre Trust's websites or the server that makes them available are free of viruses or other harmful components. Unity Theatre Trust does not warrant or make any representations regarding the use or the results of the use of the materials in Unity Theatre Trust's websites in terms of their correctness, accuracy, reliability, or otherwise. You (and not Unity Theatre Trust) assume the entire cost of all necessary servicing, repair or correction.

Applicable law may not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, so the above exclusion may not apply to you. The material that you read in Unity Theatre Trust's Web Sites is provided solely for research, entertainment and promotional purposes. The information and opinions expressed in any Bulletin Boards, Chat Rooms, or other forums conducted on or via this site are not necessarily those of Unity Theatre Trust or its affiliated or related entities or content providers and Unity Theatre Trust makes no representations or warranties regarding that information or those opinions. Furthermore, neither Unity Theatre Trust nor its affiliated or related entities or its content providers are responsible or liable to any person or entity whatsoever (including, without limitation, persons who may use or rely on such data/materials or to whom such data/materials may be furnished) for any loss, damage (whether actual, consequential, punitive or otherwise), injury, claim, liability or other cause of any kind or character whatsoever based upon or resulting from any information or opinions provided in Unity Theatre Trust's Web Sites.

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Unity Theatre Trust is not responsible for any material posted on our Forums. You shall not submit or otherwise publish through such Forums any content which:

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You agree to indemnify Unity Theatre Trust and its officers, directors, employees, agents, distributors and affiliates from and against any and all third party claims, demands, liabilities, costs, or expenses, including reasonable legal fees, resulting from your breach of any of the foregoing agreements, representations, and warranties.

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Unless otherwise specified, the materials in Unity Theatre Trust web sites are presented solely for the purpose of research, entertainment and promoting programs and other products available in the United Kingdom, its territories, possessions, and protectorates.

This site is controlled and operated by Unity Theatre Trust from its offices within the United Kingdom, or by an agent of Unity Theatre Trust. Unity Theatre Trust makes no representation that materials in Unity Theatre Trust's Web Sites are appropriate or available for use in other locations. Those who choose to access this site from other locations do so on their own initiative and are responsible for compliance with local laws, if and to the extent local laws are applicable.

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This is the entire agreement between the parties relating to the matters contained herein and shall not be modified except in writing.****

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UNITY THEATRE PRODUCTIONS FROM 1936 TO 1994

1936 to 1948

1936

Private Hicks

Waiting for Lefty

Where’s that Bomb?

1937

Opening of new Workers Theatre Programme

Plant in the Sun

Not for us

Cannibal Carnival

Aristocrats

1938

Plant in the Sun/Bury the dead

Busmen

Babes in the Wood

Case of the Baffled Boss

Trial of a Judge

Señora Carrars Rifles

Bury the Dead

“Crisis Czechoslovakia”

1939

Give me Liberty

Harvest in the North

Colony

Orchestral concert

Sandbag Follies

Turn up the lights

1940

Jack the Giant Killer

Distant Point

Match Girls

“Old Time Music Hall”

4th Anniversary Fair

The Star Turns Red

1941

Distant Point

Till the Day I Die

In the Spirit of the Revolution

1942

Sabotage

Get Cracking

Let’s be Offensive

1943

Buster

Grand Review

“India Speaks”

One Third of a Nation

Sword of the Spirit

Salute to the Gentle Sex

Spanish Village

1944

All Change Here

Green and Pleasant Land

The Rochdale Pioneers

Comrade Detective

One More Mile

Winkles and Champagne

Shop Window

Alice in Thunderland

1945

The Yellow Star

Late Extra

Juno and the Paycock

Swinging to the Left

They came to a City

God Bless the Guv’nor

1946

Gold is where you find it

Lower Depths

Citizen Kane

Buster

The Star turns Red (Revival)

Boy meets Girl

All God’s Chillun Got Wings

Awake and Sing!

Casey Jones

Star Parade

Pardon my Greek

This Trampled Earth

The Shepherd and the Hunter

1947

Dragnet

Out of the Dust

What Happens to Love

Golden Boy

Enemies

Stars on Parade

The Match Girls

The Russian Question

Black Magic

1948

The Star Turns Red

What’s Left

All Star Variety Show

Winkles and Champagne

The Whole World Over

Lions After Slumber

Six Men of Dorset

All Star Concert

1949 to 1960

1949

The Townshends

Cousin Elwyn

Plant in the Sun/Where’s That Bomb

The Jolly George

Thirteenth Anniversary Variety Concert

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists

1950

The Circling Dove

Buster

Hell is what you make It

Winkles and Champagne

How I Wonder

Longitude

1951

The World of the King

“Here Goes!”

Hawthorne Grove

Mother Goose

The Germans

The Cradle will Rock

1952

Barrier Across Europe

The Wages of Eve

The Candy Story

Strangers in the Land

Mild and Bitter

Christmas Bridge

The Bridge of Life

1953

Three in a Row

Turn it up

No!

The Rosenbergs

Cinderella

1954

Timid People

Reedy River

Shoemakers Holiday

The Land of the living

The Dockers Tanner

Montserrat

1955

The Road to Life

Pillars of Society

The Shadow of the Swastika

The Russian For Yes

The Women of Troy

Peace Meal

1956

Othello

Nekrassov

Widowers Houses

Polly

World on Edge

The Exception and the Rule

Hold the Line

1957

Burlesque

Paul Robeson Concert

Mind the Baby

Cyanamide

Match Girls

TV & Labour Movement Conference

The Biggest Thief in Town

Wally Pone

1958

The Ganze Macher

The Crucible

Tripe and Onions/The Green Eyed Monster

Robin Hood and His Merry Men

Call me not Naomi

Heartbreak House June

Mother Courage

1959

Take it as Red

Puerto Franco

God Bless the Guv’nor

Anna Christie

The Risen People

Rocket for the Governor

1960

Shakespeare’s Lovers

Lady Audley’s Secret/Music Hall

Androcles and the Lion

Bloomsday

The Offshore Island

The Big Win with Cage Productions

Drama in the Making

The Seagull

You Won’t Always be on Top

Ragged Trousered Philanthropist

Misadventures of Mr Pickwick

1961 to 1970

1961

The Visions of Simone Machard

Beer and Skittles

The Lower Depths

The Recruiting Officer

And him Stretched

Affluent Athenian

1962

Aladdin

Hedda Gabler

1963

Spring ‘71

Away

Circus

The Man who bought a Battlefield

All Star Charity Show

Gala Cabaret and Dance

The Fury of Philip Hotz/The Scavengers

Unity Theatre and the Unions

See a Man falling

Port and Lemon

Good Woman of Setzuan

Life of Kaggs

Three in One

High Jinks of Bishop Saull

School of Wives

East Lynne and Music Hall

A Doll’s House

People Like Us

The Deviates

1964

The Caucasian Chalk Circle

Its Ours

Earoles

A Memorey of Two Mondays/Oh Freedom

The Glass Menagerie

Everything in the Garden

The Licence

Squaring the Circle

1965

Chicken Soup with Barley

Little Malcolm and his struggle against the Eunuchs

Yegor Bulichov

Julius Caesar

There’s a Megabutton on my Living-room Floor

Christmas Palace of Varieties

God Bless the Guv’nor

Sweeney Todd and Music Hall

1966

Death of a Salesman

Playboy of the Western World

Inherit the Wind

1967

John D Muggins is Dead

The Country Wife

Gala Performance

The Don’t Just Sit There Show

Antigone

The Feather Pluckers

Armoured Train 14.69

1968

The Rent

Vietreview ‘68

Harold Muggins is a Martyr

Say Uncle

Billy Liar

Dirty Work at the Crossroads

1969

The Diamond, Bone and Hammer and Along the Shoughs of Ulster

Strike

Rag to the Bull

The Frogs and Co... Axed

Epitaph for George Dillon

The Mother

Festival Music Hall

Cinderella

1970

Unity Theatre Artists/The Co-operation

Triple Bill

Jack and the Beanstalk

A Case for Euthanasia

The Agony

The Demonstration

The Bolsheviks

South Africa 70

The Misadventures of Mr Pickwick

1971 to 1994

1971

The Chinese Machine

Robert Owen

It’s Never too Late

The Farmworker

Captain Swing at the Penny Gaff

The Dragon

In Place of Strife

They made a present of Mornington Crescent

1972

Waiting for Lefty

Bull Durham or the Great Turd and How to Keep it Rolling

Summerfolk

Rent or Caught in the Act

Pins and Needles

Burlesque

Huis Clos and A Matter of Convenience

1973

“Festival of Poets”

L’Avare Et Cie

The Concert at Saint Ovide

Partitions

“C.A.A. Showcase”

One Way Trip

The Way of the World

By my Life

At Enormous Expense…

Tom Barker of Camden - and the World

“Old Time Music Hall”

The Reign of Terror and the Great Money Trick

New Positions

“…And play on the flutes of their own vertebrae”

How we knocked ‘em in the Old Kent Road

1974

Widower’s Houses

The Tolmer Square Show

Case for a Rebel

Janet Rosenberg, Dear Mr Kooning and The Inhabitants

The Recruiting Officer

Vietnam - “The Post-War’ War

The Jump

Storm Warning

The Tigers are Coming O.K. ?

The Police and Saxon

Memories

“The Collier Laddie” A Legend of the Coalfields

Before your very eyes

Ten Nights in a Bar Room

“NCCL 40th Anniversary Show”

Common will against the Giant

1975

Right Turn Triple Bill

The Bureaucracy Show

The Nuns

The Cocoa Party

1977

“God’s Just a Copper”

Waiting for Lefty

1979

God Bless The Guv’nor

1980

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists

Mad Tom or the Man of Rights

1981

Then and The Clyde is Red

1982

“Reminiscences of Unity Theatre”

Then/Bikini Fable

New Positions

1983

Come Fry with me

Comprehensive Cut

1984

“A Tribute to Laurie Davies”

“Workers Theatre - National Theatre - Platforms at the National”

1990

“May Day Social”

“Unity Social”

1991

What’s Left Now

1992

Major Minor a Topical Revue, with A Small Price

1994

Horseman Pass by

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