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Love Letters Straight From Your Heart TOTAL THEATRE AWARD NOMINEE 2009
Let's raise our glasses to long lost loves and current lovers, to mums, to dads and to absent friends.
Uninvited Guests stage an event that is somewhere between a wedding reception, a wake and a radio dedication show. We speak of our own and other's loves - deep, passionate, ambivalent and unrequited - and dedicate songs to them.
If you want to join us on this happy occasion, send a dedication to someone you love to info@uninvited-guests.net. Tell us what they mean to you and why you've chosen this piece of music.
Your letters of love may become part of the show, romantic gestures or signs of friendship, shared publicly between us. Be our witnesses and we'll be yours.A BAC Scratch and an Arnolfini We Live Here commission. Also commissioned by Leeds Met Studio Theatre. Uninvited Guests are Arnolfini Associate Artists.
Director Paul Clarke
Performers Richard Dufty, Jessica Hoffmann
"You simply feel part of a huge community as lives, hopes, dreams and sadnesses are offered up in a way that is blisteringly honest and unvarnished."
Lyn Gardner, The Guardian * * * * *"The dedications are manifestly authentic and heartbreakingly sincere."
Kate Bassett, Independent on Sunday
10 February, Eastleigh, The Point, 023 8065 2333
14 February, Brighton, The Basement, 01273 699 733
25-30 August 2009, Edinburgh Festival Fringe (for full details of the Fuel at the Fringe Edinburgh programme, click here)
19-20 July 2009, Latitude Festival, Southwold
Spring 2008: toured to National Review of Live Art and Arnolfini, Bristol
Autumn 2007: toured to Leeds Met Studio and Alsager Arts Centre
Spring 2007: BAC, two 'scratch' performances
A work in progress showing was performed at the Arnolifini, Bristol, in August 2006.
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.
