Love Letters Straight From Your Heart - Southbank Centre

Pro reviewers average 2013-05-25 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 lov... 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. 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. 'You can't help but fall in love with it.' ***** (Lyn Gardner, the Guardian)
Running dates from Feb 2 2012 to Feb 14 2012
Theatre Southbank Centre
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Cabe Franklin
More well-rounded than expected. Participants (who email in beforehand) dedicate a song on the topic of love to whomever they like. The hosts sequence the dedications and read some aloud (while the dedicated song is playing) - others are acted out more evocatively. People write about romantic love, love for family members who have died, for friends. Somewhat predictable but no less moving for it.

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Genre Drama
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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.

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.

'You can't help but fall in love with it.' ***** (Lyn Gardner, the Guardian)