Current Productions: The Uninvited
The Uninvited
Songs and Voices of Exile
- Devised and performed by Elizabeth Mansfield
- Setting and clothes by Richard Aylwin
- Lighting by Neil Fulcher
The Uninvited is a performance tour de force telling the extraordinary stories of refugees and exiles, from all over the world, past and present. Poems, writings and testimonies flow into songs – Spanish, Filipino, Farsi, Bosnian – sung both in original language and in English translation.
Premiered in the USA in 2002, The Uninvited has since toured to many places in the UK, celebrating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, through the words and music, the humour and courage, of those forced to flee their homes and make a new life in foreign lands.
A post show, panel-led discussion is offered after each performance. Past participants have included: Amnesty International, Assist, Asylum Welcome, Crisis UK, Exiled Writers Ink, The Refugee Council, Refugee Action, Salusbury World Project and many other organisations and individuals working to support refugees and asylum seekers, in the UK.
The Uninvited is also offered to schools and colleges, alongside practical workshops on 'The Theatre of Bertolt Brecht'.
Spelthorne Borough Council has supported this production.
Please see education for full details of the workshops.
Performances in 2010
- Weds 20th
- Rich Mix, London
- 35 - 47 Bethnal Green Road, London, E1 6LA
- Box Office: 020 7613 7498
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There will be a discussion after the performance led by:
- Veena Torthia & Nahid Behzadi: Crisis UK
- Dan Hodges: Refugee Action
- Alison Harvey: General Secretary, Immigration Law Practitioners' Association
Part of: 'Voices Of Freedom' week at Rich Mix. Monday 18 - Saturday 23 January 2010
A week of special events encompassing theatre, film, spoken word and live music, both celebrating and questioning our notions of freedom at the start of the year of the next General Election.
Previous Performances
- Riverside Arts Centre, Sunbury-on-Thames
- Plough Arts Centre, Great Torrington, Devon
- The Octagon Theatre, Bolton
- Bridgwater Arts Centre, Somerset
- Crisis UK, London
- Rich Mix, London
- Square Chapel, Halifax
- South Wing, Farnham Maltings
- Brewhouse Studio, Taunton
- Arc Theatre, TROWBRIDGE.
- The Theatre, CHIPPING NORTON.
- The New Cut, HALESWORTH.
- Everyman Studio, CHELTENHAM.
- Burton Taylor Theatre, OXFORD Playhouse.
- Lovegrove Theatre, REDBRIDGE.
- Haymarket Theatre, BASINGSTOKE.
- Astor Theatre Arts Centre, DEAL.
- Myers Studio. EPSOM.
- The Guildhall, Theatre Royal BURY ST EDMUNDS.
- The Peepul Centre, LEICESTER.
- WINDSOR Arts Centre.
- Arts Centre WASHINGTON.
- Merlin Theatre, SHEFFIELD.
- YORK Theatre Royal Studio.
- The Drill Hall, LONDON.
- St Mary's, Rifle, Colorado USA.
- Tricycle Theatre, Kilburn, London (A benefit performance for the Salusbury World Refugee Centre).
- 'United Nations Peace One Day' Albany Theatre, London, UK.
- Greenwich Theatre, London, UK.
- Boulder Public Library, Colorado, USA.
