Digital Event
Dates
1 - 22 Oct 2020
1 - 22 Oct 2020
Artist/Company
Uninvited Guests
Uninvited Guests
A performance created from your song dedications and declarations of love, past and present, join us online via Zoom for Love Letters at Home as we raise our glasses to long lost loves and current lovers, to mums and dads, and to absent friends.
Love Letters at Home was an intimate participatory piece of theatre in which the audience and performers offered dedications and declarations of love, past and present. It was collaboratively authored with its audience, who temporarily became a community of close friends across the performance.
Before the show, people who booked tickets were invited to send in music requests, to write dedications to those they love or care about, and these were worked into the event each night. We tried, with care, to only speak the words written by those in the audience – each performance was unique to that group of people, their memories, their current and past loves or friendships, their emotions, laid bare for everyone to witness, acknowledge and support.
It shifted between theatre and a real social event; dedications were spoken, toasts were made, speeches were given, songs were sung and dances danced, on behalf of the audience and with them.
UNINVITED GUESTS
Uninvited Guests are Paul Clarke, Richard Dufty, and Jessica Hoffmann. Formed in Bristol in 1998, the company’s work has toured nationally and internationally. They create entertaining and provocative performances that combines high-tech with low tech, the visceral with the virtual. Uninvited Guests work in various contexts, focussing mainly on theatre but also producing installation and audio walks. Their recent work has blurred the line between theatre and social festivities, with audiences joining us in events that are celebratory and critical of these times.
#LoveLettersAtHome
Performance Schedule:
| Stephen Joseph Theatre | Thursday 1 October | 7.30pm | |
| Derby Theatre | Thursday 15 October | 7pm | |
| Hampshire Cultural Trust – You can purchase tickets from Ashcroft Arts Centre, Forest Arts Centre, or West End Centre | Friday 16 October | 7.30pm | |
| Oxford Playhouse | Thursday 22 October | 7pm | |
| Oxford Playhouse | Friday 23 October | 7pm | |