Unity Theatre, Liverpool
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Coordinates: 53°24′04″N 2°58′19″W / 53.401°N 2.972°W The Unity Theatre in Liverpool, England,was formed by directors Gerry Dawson and Edgar Criddle as the Merseyside Left Theatre in the 1930s.
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In 1944 it became Merseyside Unity Theatre. The company was radical and experimentalist, staging classics alongside contemporary left wing theatre and an aim was to make theatre accessible to the working class.
Today it is based in a converted Synagogue in Hope Place off Hope Street, and provides workshops and performance space.
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