Kate McGrath
Fuel c/o BAC
Lavender Hill
Battersea
London SW11 5TN
T +44 (0)20 8228 6688
E kate@fueltheatre.com
W fueltheatre.com
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SIZE OF COMPANY
4–8 on the road
SCALE OF VENUE
Small- to middle-scale
PERMANENT STAFF
Artistic Directors
Paul Clarke and Richard Dufty
Artistic Director & Participation Producer
Jessica Hoffmann
Producer
Kate McGrath (Fuel)
Project Manager
Christina Elliot (Fuel)
ARTISTIC POLICY
Formed in Bristol in 1998, Uninvited Guests make entertaining and provocative performance. Their work represents a contemporary reality, in which memories of movies are as much part of our experience as intimate dialogues with lovers. The company 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 us in events that are celebratory and elegiac, nostalgic and critical of these times.
REVIEW EXTRACTS
‘You can't help but fall in love with it.’ ***** The Guardian ()
‘The latest show from Uninvited Guests is absolutely brilliant… this is a clever, engaging and tightly controlled show.’ **** The Guardian ()
‘Astonishingly moving… manifestly authentic and heartbreakingly sincere.’ Independent on Sunday ()
CURRENT PRODUCTIONS
Trained by a TV make-up artist, Uninvited Guests lovingly fabricate bloody wounds on each other’s bodies. These fake cuts proliferate, spreading from performers to the gallery walls and onto the audience’s skin. (6 hour durational installation, 3 on stage, 5 on the road.)
In the guise of some ragtag band, Uninvited Guests invent folksongs and dances for our green and plastic land. They declaim hip romantic poetry, conjure epic landscapes and offer prayers to make better please. Herald Angel Award winner 2007. (75 mins, no interval, 5 on stage, 7 on the road.)
An event somewhere between a wedding reception, a wake and a radio dedication show. Uninvited Guests speak of their own and other's loves – deep, passionate, ambivalent and unrequited – and dedicate songs to them. (75 mins, no interval, 2 on stage, 5 on the road.)
FUTURE PRODUCTIONS
A site-responsive, participatory audio-tour, conjuring a city’s ghosts and fictionalising your hometown. Made in collaboration with sound artist Duncan Speakman.
With this event, Uninvited Guests will cure your venue and its city of its ills. They 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.
TOURING AVAILABILITY
Availability on request
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