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Image: It Is Like It Ought To Be: A Pastoral / Photographer: Hannah Chiswell

Image: Photographer: Hannah Chiswell

UNINVITED GUESTS

Devised theatre, Mixed-media, Performance

SIZE OF COMPANY
3–7 on the road

SCALE OF VENUE
Small- to middle-scale

PERMANENT STAFF
Artistic Directors
Paul Clarke
Richard Dufty
Jessica Hoffmann

Producer
Kate McGrath

Administrator
Christina Elliot

ARTISTIC POLICY
Formed in Bristol in 1998, Uninvited Guests makes entertaining and provocative performance. The company’s work represents a contemporary reality in which memories of movies are as much part of our experience as intimate dialogues with lovers. Uninvited Guests works in various contexts and constellations, focusing mainly on performance but also producing installation and digital media. Recent work has blurred the line between theatre and social festivities, with audiences joining in events that are celebratory and elegiac, nostalgic and critical of these times.

REVIEW EXTRACTS
The Guardian ()

The Guardian ()

The Herald ()

CURRENT PRODUCTIONS
A darkly comic and disconcerting mix of poignant confession and B-movie melodrama, real acts of violence and pints of fake blood.

Trained by a TV make-up artist, Uninvited Guests lovingly fabricates bloody wounds on each other’s bodies. These fake cuts proliferate, spreading from performers to the gallery walls and onto the audience’s skin.

In the guise of some ragtag band, Uninvited Guests invents folksongs and dances for our green and plastic land. They declaim hip romantic poetry, conjure epic landscapes and offer prayers to make things better. Herald Angel Award winner 2007.

An event somewhere between a wedding reception, a wake and a radio dedication show. The company speaks of its own and other's loves – deep, passionate, ambivalent and unrequited – and dedicates songs to them.

FUTURE PRODUCTIONS
A site-responsive, participatory audio-tour, conjuring a city’s ghosts and fictionalising your home town. Made in collaboration with sound artist Duncan Speakman.

With this event, Uninvited Guests will cure your venue and its city of its ills. The company will invoke moments of horror from the city’s psyche in order to exorcise them and celebrate the good times, the city’s stories of romance, love and beauty.

WRAP-AROUND
One-off workshops or longer courses for a range of participants, from school and university groups to professional development for artists. Post-show discussions and lecture presentations.

RECENT INTERNATIONAL WORK
2003 – 04 Denmark, Germany (), Portugal ( CD-Rom), Slovenia ()

TOURING AVAILABILITY
Details on request

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