February Scratch Night | 2026

cabaret

Wednesday 25th February

7:30pm

The acclaimed series of work in progress nights at Unity continues into 2026 by popular demand with monthly instalments of never before seen work.

Over the last few years Unity has established itself as the go to venue for fresh, and innovative new work with a sell out series of work in progress evenings and unmissable variety nights.

Line Up

LIF 2026 in association with Wing it Impro presents

Ancestors

One house. One family. One story.

For 120 years, the Fletcher family has called 11 Oxford Road home. It’s a house filled with three generations of births, deaths, and marriages. But in 2026, this seemingly unremarkable family faces a life-changing decision: do they sell the house and move on, or is the pull of the past too strong to ignore? What happens when the memories of the past fight to keep you there.

Ancestors is a gripping, spontaneous theatrical experience that follows three generations as they tell their own story. Witness a tale of inheritance, identity, and the choices we make to either embrace or reject our past.

Conceived and directed:
Mark Smith

Development collaborators:
Mike Burton, Jen Hardy, Su Jackson, Paddy Kearns & Fergus Wynne

Shifting Skies

How often do you stop and look up at the sky?

Really look.

Take it in, take that moment to see the moving shifting picture that is ever above.

Where does it take your thoughts, feelings? What do you hear? How do you want to move?

Get lost in it.

That’s where you find your magic.

Connection to a bigger force. Humbling and freeing.

Experience our performance of how the skies inspire.

Feed off the movement, music and art. How will it inspire you?

Iona Lott is Young and Hot

Iona Lott is young and hot and fun, and she wants to stay that way forever! She only ever wants to have a good time with everybody she meets. However she has a problem. Iona just can’t seem to stop aging. Lines on her face, creeping grey hairs…. a hangover. She wonders if she’ll ever be happy again. Until, one day, Iona reads the first half of Oscar Wilde’s A Picture of Dorian Gray and, hit with a stroke of genius, she hatches a plan. She’s inviting esteemed artists (the audience) to compete to draw the perfect picture of her, one so good she’s willing to sell her soul. What could possibly go wrong?