20 May - 17 Jul 2020
Uninvited Guests
In response to our desire for connection in the times of physical distance, Uninvited Guests brought you a completely digital, wholly personal, and wonderfully live experience in Love Letters at Home.
In their innovative performance style, Uninvited Guests played with what was real and what was not, often inviting the audience to participate in different ways. By collecting song requests and dedications from the audience members, they created a show that was unique to each audience every night.
Love Letters at Home was an antidote to isolation. We raised our glasses to long lost loves and current lovers, to mums and dads, and to absent friends
Love Letters Straight From Your Heart was originally a BAC Scratch and Arnolfini We Live Here commission, also commissioned by Leeds Met Studio Theatre. Love Letters at Home was commissioned by First Art, a Creative People and Places project, as part of its Go the Distance remote festival for audiences in Ashfield, Mansfield, Bolsover, and North East Derbyshire.
About the Audience Experience
Love Letters at Home was an intimate participatory event in which the audience and performers offered dedications and declarations of love, past and present. It was collaboratively written with its audience, who temporarily became a community of close friends across the performance.
Once an audience member had booked their ticket, they were invited to send in a music request with a dedication to someone they love.
Audiences received a reminder email the day before with a password and Zoom link to attend. The performances lasted just under one hour.
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