Unity Theatre announces the return of its Up Next Festival for 2025

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Unity Theatre has announced that it is bringing its Up Next Festival back to the city next year.

The Open Call is back and applications for Up Next Festival 2025 are now open. This year Up Next will be returning to its bread and butter with a single weekend of non-stop performance of new work and events.

The theatre is now reaching out to the city to invite creatives to apply to perform.

Unity Theatre highly encourages creatives of all backgrounds and abilities to apply for this opportunity. It is constantly looking for new artists to bring into its community and Up Next is the perfect time to introduce yourself and your work.

Up Next Festival’s identity and energy thrives on a wide variety of work from a wide variety of artists. Work in previous festivals has ranged from side-splittingly funny cabaret acts to heart-felt testimonial pieces, to groundbreaking interactive light installation pieces that took the audience on an apocalyptic journey.

There is no limit to the work or specification to Up Next, which is what makes it so unique and special so if people feel like they have an idea, at any stage of development, Unity Theatre wants to hear from them.

If successful, people will receive:

Mentoring from the Unity team and Artistic Director, Eli Randle.
Rehearsal space to develop work.
Group sessions on funding, marketing, touring and producing.
Technical support from Unity’s team to bring work to life.
A performance slot at the festival to try out new work in whatever form suits piece’s stage of development.