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UNINVITED GUESTS (1998 - ) |
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Nationality: British Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Formed in 1998, Bristol-based Uninvited Guests operates in various contexts and constellations, focusing mainly on performance but also making gallery installations and working in digital media. Currently Arnolfini Associate Artists, the company produces entertaining and provocative work that investigates our media-saturated culture; explores the relationship between real and on-screen, live and mediated spaces; and attempts to represent contemporary reality, in which virtual interactions and memories of TV or movies are as much part of our experience as intimate personal dialogues.
Plays by Uninvited Guests
It Is Like It Ought To Be: A Pastoral | ||
| 1st Produced: | 04 May 2006 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #71052 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 5 performers | |||||
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Synopsis: | In times of increasing fear, disorder and disturbance, It/s Like It Ought To Be: A Pastoral marks a nostalgic retreat from our chaotic urban age towards the romanticism of a bygone Arcadian idyll. Borrowing from countryside ritual such as Morris Dancing and Mummers Plays, and cult films like The Wicker Man, the company reinvents folklore for an imagined village through a memorable mish-mash of image, sound-effects and live music. On a stage littered with rustic paraphernalia, fake flora and fauna and assorted bits of technical equipment, pictures and atmospheres of pre-industrial rural bliss are studiously built up and celebrated, then beautifully subverted and undermined as the theatre temporarily becomes a clearing in the urban forest. | |||||
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Schlock | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2005 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #43546 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | Univited Guest: written by Paul Clarke, Richard Dufty, Jessica Hoffmann with Neil Callahanin collaboration with sound artist Duncan Speakman | |||||
Synopsis: | Why do we not shout "enough" when we watch the TV news from Iraq or look at a photo of blood seeping from the head of a corpse? Could it be that we have become so used to fetishised images of violent death that we can no longer distinguish between the real death and the staged one; between real blood and tomato ketchup? - Gardner, Guardian | |||||
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Love Letters Straight From Your Heart | ||
| 1st Produced: | 17 May 2007 | |||||
Company: | Uninvited Guests and Fuel | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #115997 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | The script and playlist for every show are unique. The audience are invited to request songs and write dedications to the people they love. All the words in this performance were written by people in the room. Filmed and edited by Hannah Still Devised and performed by Richard Dufty and Jessica Hoffmann Directed by Paul Clarke Produced by Fuel From 05 August 2009 | |||||
Synopsis: | A glass champagne as you enter the room and a chair around the table. . .then a toast to love! Love Letters is a magical theatre show about our relationships that sits somewhere between a wedding reception, a wake and a radio dedication show. In advance, using the email below, you can make an anonymous dedication to long lost loves and current lovers, to mums, to dads and to absent friends and then these will be included, anonymously of course, during the show. This is one for all you romantics out there! So bring your partners, husbands or wives, or just a friend you want to make a dedication to and enjoy a magical hour at the Corn Exchange. . | |||||
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Offline | ||
| 1st Produced: | Metropolitan University, Leeds, West Yorkshire | 05 Feb 2003 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #115998 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Synopsis: | Investigating online personas on stage, Uninvited Guests explore the way people use the web as a confession site. They perform other people's words - explicit, passionate, incredibly intimate - where they were never meant to be heard. Contains strong language. | |||||
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