Unlimited

Our 2024 programme features a stellar line-up of performers and companies exploring themes from the profound to the satirical, including gaslighting, mental health, parenthood, loss, (im)mortality – and surviving the apocalypse. Expect laugh-out-loud humour, thought-provoking theatre and dance, and inclusive club nights across the five-day programme.

This year’s festival boasts some of the UK and Europe's most exciting new work, including London premieres of Stopgap Dance Company’s Lived Fiction and Touretteshero's Burnt Out in Biscuit Land, plus award-winning theatre company Flawbored’s It’s a Mother F**king Pleasure and a new commission by Abnormally Funny People. And keeping the energy up around the clock, Disco Neurotico brings its first neurodiverse club night to London, alongside Deaf Rave’s multidimensional dancefloor. 

Serious, subversive, sweaty and joyful, the events in Unlimited 2024 flip narratives around disability on their heads and turn the spotlight on sensational storytelling from some of the most talented stand-ups, writers, artists and performers in the industry.

We’ve presented Unlimited festival at the Southbank Centre since 2012, working in partnership with the Unlimited commissioning fund, who commission extraordinary work by disabled artists. Their mission is to do so until the whole of the cultural sector follows suit.

This biennial festival is a showcase for the ambitious creative projects produced by disabled artists and companies that span across the arts and include new commissions, existing work and bespoke one-off events.

In its use of the term ‘disabled artist’, Unlimited includes work by artists who identify as being disabled, D/deaf, neurodivergent and those experiencing chronic illness, mental health conditions and more. We understand that different people prefer different terminology and we subscribe to the social model of disability.

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