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Video Trailer
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Schlock
is Uninvited Guests’ fourth touring theatre project. Schlock
toured the UK in autmun 04 and spring 05.
Schlock collides the real with the really fake. Personal experiences
of bodily trauma and fears about what's going on inside - injuries,
accidents and illnesses - encounter the erotics of TV hospital dramas
and horror-flicks.
The performers speak directly to the audience through a clear Perspex
screen. It's as if they possess a kind of second-sight as they retell
others' accidents and injuries as though they happened, or will
happen, to them… or to you. A sense of anticipation builds - that
something horrible might occur here, or already has - as plundered
fragments of horror soundtracks are heard off, from in the wings.
With digital artist Duncan Speakman (www.kleindesign.co.uk), we're
exploring the performers as acoustic instruments, using contact
mics to live-sample noises from their bodies and soundtrack the
show. Custom-built software enables us to process each others' voices
with pressure sensors, to increase our sampled heart-beats to impossible
rates and trigger plundered samples through body contact.
Schlock asks whether we can sit at the bedside of a loved-one, or
hear the beeps of a heart monitor without thinking of endless scenes
from TV and film? What is it in horror that holds us, makes us want
to look at accidents as we drive-by? Uninvited Guests explore our
desire to look and to look away.
“...an
abundance of intellect and a sharp performance style.” The
Guardian
“... a thrilling and disconcerting performance: both visceral
and cerebral, allowing the audience to experience the fault lines
between experienced and performed violence.” Total Theatre
“… a powerful examination of the recurring human fascination
with narratives of violence and horror.” The Scotsman
Production took place during residencies at the Studio Theatre,
Leeds, Hull Time-Based Arts and Dartington College of Arts, and
was supported by Arts Council England South West.
For further info please contact Fuel:
info@fueltheatre.com
or +44 (0) 20 7228 6688.
Funded
by Arts
Council England South West. Co-commissioned by Leeds
Metropolitan University Studio Theatre and Hull
Time Based Arts.
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