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UNINVITED GUESTS
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It Is Like It Ought To Be: A Pastoral |
Come join us, share some scrumpy and stay awhile. Let's
found Arcadia in the theatre, a rural idyll amongst the city's hubbub.
In the guise of some ragtag band. Uninvited Guests invent fakesongs and fakedances
for our green and plastic land. They declaim hip Romantic poetry, conjure
epic landscapes and attempt a return to some simpler life, a golden age. They
give thanks for what we've got, and offer prayers to make better please, make
better.
After immersing themselves in horror movies for their last show Schlock, Uninvited Guests take refuge in pastoral romance and the search for an impossible utopia in their new work. Inventing fakesongs and fakedances for our green and plastic land, they'll seek to find a rural idyll amongst the city’s hubbub. In the guise of some ragtag band they'll declaim hip Romantic poetry, conjure epic landscapes and attempt a return to some simpler life.
Winner of a Herald Angel Award 2007
Commissioned by Nuffield, Lancaster, and the Junction,
Cambridge. A BAC Scratch Commission. An Arnolfini We Live Here commission.
Funded by Arts Council England South West. Supported by Dartington College
of Arts.
Director
Paul Clarke
Current Performers
Laura Bradshaw
Neil Callaghan
Richard Dufty
Simone Kenyon
Original Performers
Neil Callaghan
Richard Dufty
Catherine Dyson
Simone Kenyon
Sound artist
Lewis Gibson
Lighting designer
Ben Pacey
"The latest show from Uninvited Guests is absolutely brilliant" The Guardian ****
Herald Angel Award Winner 2007 *****
This show is available for touring.
For more information email kate@fueltheatre.com
2008
Spring tour to Unity Theatre Liverpool and Warwick Arts Centre
2007
Performed at Pleasance, Edinburgh Fringe in August as part of the British Council Edinburgh Showcase 2007
2006
Autumn: national tour to Lancaster, Bristol, Exeter, Dartington, Cambridge, Leeds, London
Scratch performances at BAC, London
work-in-progress at Junction, Cambridge
work-in-progress performance at Arnolfini, Bristol
2005
residency at Dartington
The Team
Paul Clarke
Paul is a founder member of Uninvited Guests and has directed studio theatre
works, durational performances, gallery installations and a CD-Rom with the
company. These works have toured widely in the UK and internationally. In
2002 Paul was awarded a Matrix, Reflective Practitioner Bursary, from South
West Arts. Arnolfini, Bristol, where Uninvited Guests are now Associate Artists,
hosted his professional development. Since 2002 Paul has lectured in Theatre
at Dartington College of Arts. He has also taught at Warwick University, Bristol
and University of Gloucestershire. Paul has a PhD in Collaborative Performance
from Bristol University and an MA in Performance Studies from Central School
of Speech and Drama.
Richard Dufty
Richard Dufty is one of the artistic directors of Uninvited Guests. He has
devised and performed in all of their touring theatre pieces and performance
installations since 2000. He has run numerous workshops on behalf of the company.
Richard is also Senior Producer at BAC in London.
Jessica Hoffmann
Jessica is a founder member of Uninvited Guests and has devised and performed
in all of their touring theatre shows and performance installations since
1998. She also runs workshops for the company. For the last 6 years Jessica
has also co-run large scale education projects and performed with Reckless
Sleepers.
Catherine Dyson
Catherine Dyson is a performer and devisor. Recent theatre work also includes Mark Murphy’s ‘The Night Shift’ (UK tour 2006 – nominated for Best Actress in the Stage Awards 2005 for her performance), 'found' in collaboration with Norwegian based artist a smith and 'Dead Man’s Biggest Fan' with Melanie Wilson (selected for the 2005 This Way Up touring initiative). She has performed in several radio broadcasts for London's Resonance FM, most recently lead role in 'Chalky Cobb'. She appeared as a monster in 2005 horror film The Descent and made several ghostly appearances as The Woman In Black (Fortune Theatre).
Neil Callaghan
Neil is a freelance performer. He has worked with varoius constellations of
people, as well as beginning to make his own work. In August 2003, he co-founded
Propeller along with other graduates from Dartington College of Arts. He has
worked with Uninvited Guests for the last three years on Schlock and Aftermath.
Lewis Gibson
Simone Kenyon
Simone Kenyon has been making contemporary performance work since 1998. She
has worked nationally and in Europe on various solo, collaborative and company
dance and theatre work. She is currently collaborating with Tamara Ashley
on a site sensitive dance project along the Pennine Way. She is also a member
of the theatre company Deerpark.
Laura Bradshaw
Laura Bradshaw graduated from BA (Hons) Contemporary Theatre Practice at RSAMD in 2005. She now works as a freelance performer and is based in Glasgow. Since graduating she has performed with Pacitti Company, LisaLouise, Fish and Game, Nic Green and Uninvited Guests. Laura is also a member of performance company BarArt along with Nic Green, Murray Wason and Jodie Wilkinson.
Downloads
To download a Touring Information Pack (including copy and press quotes) click
here: info
pack
To download high resolution images of the show click here. All photos are by Hannah Chiswell.
To download a technical rider for the show click here: tech
rider
