Love Letters Straight From Your Heart // Projects

Let's raise our glasses to long lost loves and current lovers, to mums, to dads and to absent friends. Uninvited Guests stage an event that is somewhere between a wedding reception, a wake and a radio dedication show. We speak of our own and other's loves - deep, passionate, ambivalent and unrequited - and dedicate songs to them.

If you want to join us on this happy occasion, send a dedication to someone you love to info@uninvited-guests.net. Tell us what they mean to you and why you've chosen this piece of music. Your letters of love may become part of the show, romantic gestures or signs of friendship, shared publicly between us. Be our witnesses and we'll be yours.

A BAC Scratch and an Arnolfini We Live Here commission. Also commissioned by Leeds Met Studio Theatre.

***** The Guardian - "You can't help but fall in love with it."

"The most powerful theatrical event I saw." The Financial Times on Love Letters at Latitude

Check out an edited video of the show here.

Current performances

10 February, The Point Eastleigh
14 February, The Basement Brighton 

History

Love Letters Straight From Your Heart was devised at Leeds Met Studio Theatre and Arnolfini, Bristol. A Scratch version of the work was performed at BAC's Burst Festival on 18th & 19th May 2007. Since then the show has toured to National Review of Live Art, Glasgow, Arnolfini, Leeds Met Studio Theatre, Alsager Arts Centre and Latitude. We trialled a version of the show for elderly people at the Peel Centre in Islington, in association with the Clod Ensemble's Extravagant Acts for Mature People programme, and the Lyric Hammersmith in January 2009. We presented the show at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August 2009.

Audience feedback

I just wanted to send you an e-mail to say that I saw your show on Saturday evening at the NRLA and I thought it was amazing! The best thing I saw there. It really touched me and I haven't stopped thinking about it since. I hope I'll get the opportunity to see it or some of your other work again soon.

I loved it, I loved it, I cried, I was seduced, I fell in love again, I drank cava and said I wouldn?t. I want to say thank you for that wonderful performance. I think this show is the one to build bridges and mend hearts. Thank you.

Well, thank the lord for Uninvited Guests. They made my trip to Glasgow worth it. What a marvellous, open-hearted, joyful piece of theatre.

Reviews

• Time Out Review, Edinburgh 2009
• Independent On Sunday Review
• Lyn Gardner's Guardian Review, Edinburgh 2009
• What's On Stage, Edinburgh 2009
• Broadway Baby, Edinburgh 2009
• Telegraph Blog
• Writing From Live Art, 9 February 2008, review by Tim Attack
• The Skinny Blog, 20 July 2009
• Financial Times, 25 July 2009
• Fringe Review, Latitude 2009