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UNINVITED GUESTS / Image: It Is Like It Ought To Be, A Pastoral / Photographer: Ben Pacey

Image: It Is Like It Ought To Be, A Pastoral
Photographer: Ben Pacey
UNINVITED GUESTS

Mixed-media|Performance|Devised theatre

SIZE OF COMPANY
3–8 on the road

SCALE OF VENUE
Small to medium

PERMANENT STAFF
Artistic Directors
Paul Clarke
Richard Dufty
Jessica Hoffmann
Producer
Kate McGrath
Project Manager
Christina Elliot

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
An abundance of intellect and a sharp performance style.
The Guardian (Schlock)
The latest show from Uninvited Guests is absolutely brilliant… this is a clever, engaging and tightly controlled show.
The Guardian **** (It Is Like It Ought To Be: A Pastoral)
A rich collage of music, rituals, inspired daftness and inventive staging, coupled with strong performances from a cast of five.
The Herald ***** (It Is Like It Ought To Be: A Pastoral)

CURRENT PRODUCTIONS
Aftermath
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 performers, 5 on the road
It Is Like It Ought To Be: A pastoral
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 approx., 5 on stage, 7 on the road
Love Letters Straight From Your Heart
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, 2 on stage, 3 on the road

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

RECENT INTERNATIONAL WORK
2008 China: It Is Like It Ought To Be: A Pastoral

TOURING AVAILABILITY
Availability on request