A theatrical guided tour, not of the historic past, but of the future of your city.

Presented by FUEL, Uninvited Guests and Circumstance, Give Me Back My Broken Night was originally developed as part of Watershed's Theatre Sandbox Programme and has also been part of Open City, iShed programme for the European City of Culture programme in Guimaraes, Portugal. Its UK premiere explored Bristol's Enterprize Zone.

Part performance, part guided tour, part planning workshop, audiences walk through areas under construction and share what is planned for the future and what the utopian and dystopian alternatives might be. Before their eyes, a glowing vision of the future will appear, the collective imagining of all those participating.

Using a combination of performance, location sensitive mobile devices, portable projectors and a cinematic soundtrack, the audience become the urban planners, collaborating on their own designs and imagined architectures.

Formed in Bristol in 1998, Uninvited Guests make entertaining and provocative performance which tour nationally and internationally. Previous performances include It Is Like It Ought To Be: A Pastoral (Battersea Arts Centre, China), Love Letter Straight from Your Heart (Southbank Centre, UK tour) and Make Better Please (Fierce Festival, UK tour). Give Me Back My Broken Night is a collaboration with Duncan Speakman of Circumstance, an international collective of artists who create cinematic experiences in unexpected locations. Best known for their subtlemobs (which have recently shown in Taipei, Xiamen and Berlin), Circumstance have also recently been touring a multi-speaker mobile symphony 'Of Sleeping Birds', showing at The Barbican, ARU Cambridge and The Hong Kong Institute of Design. They are currently developing a cross city narrative adventure with UWE.

The UK premiere in Bristol is part of a series of Bristol Temple Quarter commissions coordinated by Watershed, Knowle West Media Centre and MAYK, with support from Bristol City Council and Arts Council England.

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