United Kingdom

In the United Kingdom, the Unity theatre movement developed from workers' drama groups in the 1930s, seeing itself as using theatre to highlight the issues of the working class being produced by and for working class audiences. The movement had strong links with the Communist Party of Great Britain and the Left Book Club Theatre Guild.

At one time there were over 50 local theatre groups known as "Unity Theatre":

• Unity Theatre, Liverpool
  Unity Theatre, Liverpool
  The Unity Theatre in Liverpool, England, was formed as the Merseyside Left Theatre in the 1930s. In 1944 it became Merseyside Unity Theatre....
  
  
• Unity Theatre, London
  Unity Theatre, London
  The Unity Theatre was a theatre club formed in 1936, and initially based in St Judes Hall, Britannia Street, Kings Cross, in 1937 they moved to a former chapel in Goldington Street, near St Pancras, in the London Borough of Camden. Although the theatre was destroyed by fire in 1975 productions...
  
  
• Unity Theatre, Manchester
• Glasgow Unity Theatre
  Glasgow Unity Theatre
  The Glasgow Unity Theatre was a theatre group that was formed in 1941, in Glasgow. The Unity theatre movement developed from workers' drama groups in the 1930s, seeing itself as using theatre to highlight the issues of the working class being produced by and for working class audiences...