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Hannah Maxwell / I, Am Dram
Thu 13 Oct 7.30pm / £12/£8 / The Front Room
Suitable for 12+
A hilarious ode to all things amateur dramatics.
“I need to do a not-very-complicated set change… but I want this to be authentic, so… can I please have a long and awkward blackout.”
Join Hannah Maxwell (“A Generation Z Caroline Aherne!” - To Do List) on the train home to Hertfordshire and settle in for a joy-filled hour of amdram anecdotes, musical parodies and very basic choreography, drawn from her family’s illustrious 90-year history with the Welwyn Thalians Musical & Dramatic Society.
Making her prodigal return to suburbia, Maxwell thinks back to 2010: My Fair Lady, and her final year doing am-dram. Harmonising over dinner, rehearsing with mum, coming out as gay (a much less traumatic experience than her woeful audition for the role of Eliza).
I, AmDram has charmed audiences across the UK, Australia and Europe, from lifelong thesps who know every line, to those who’ve never trod a board or sung a Sondheim.
Told through comedy, music, spoken word and Gilbert & Sullivan references, this pitch-perfect piece of storytelling theatre minds the gap between the identities we assert and the worlds we leave.
Written and performed by Hannah Maxwell
Produced by Becky Plotnek
Dramaturgical support: Michelle Madsen and Nick Cassenbaum
Technical design: Benedict Hudson
Backdrop created by Gino Saccone
Voices: Clive Dancey, Kat Foxworthy, Alison Gibbs, Stevie Gibbs, Tim Spink, Amanda Sayers.
Video and Props courtesy of the Welwyn Thalians Musical and Dramatic Society
Playtext published by Oberon Books (2019) with Forward by Brian Logan
Created through the Starting Blocks programme at Camden People’s Theatre and developed with support from Arts Council England.
★★★★★ To Do List "A generation Z Caroline Aherne!”
★★★★★ The Advertiser “Pure gold.”
★★★★★ The Adelaide Show “Sublime one-person theatre.”
★★★★ The Scotsman "Joyful & perceptive”
★★★★ The List "A heartfelt and deeply moving tribute”
hannah-maxwell.com
Thu 13 Oct 7.30pm / £12/£8 / The Front Room
Suitable for 12+
A hilarious ode to all things amateur dramatics.
“I need to do a not-very-complicated set change… but I want this to be authentic, so… can I please have a long and awkward blackout.”
Join Hannah Maxwell (“A Generation Z Caroline Aherne!” - To Do List) on the train home to Hertfordshire and settle in for a joy-filled hour of amdram anecdotes, musical parodies and very basic choreography, drawn from her family’s illustrious 90-year history with the Welwyn Thalians Musical & Dramatic Society.
Making her prodigal return to suburbia, Maxwell thinks back to 2010: My Fair Lady, and her final year doing am-dram. Harmonising over dinner, rehearsing with mum, coming out as gay (a much less traumatic experience than her woeful audition for the role of Eliza).
I, AmDram has charmed audiences across the UK, Australia and Europe, from lifelong thesps who know every line, to those who’ve never trod a board or sung a Sondheim.
Told through comedy, music, spoken word and Gilbert & Sullivan references, this pitch-perfect piece of storytelling theatre minds the gap between the identities we assert and the worlds we leave.
Written and performed by Hannah Maxwell
Produced by Becky Plotnek
Dramaturgical support: Michelle Madsen and Nick Cassenbaum
Technical design: Benedict Hudson
Backdrop created by Gino Saccone
Voices: Clive Dancey, Kat Foxworthy, Alison Gibbs, Stevie Gibbs, Tim Spink, Amanda Sayers.
Video and Props courtesy of the Welwyn Thalians Musical and Dramatic Society
Playtext published by Oberon Books (2019) with Forward by Brian Logan
Created through the Starting Blocks programme at Camden People’s Theatre and developed with support from Arts Council England.
★★★★★ To Do List "A generation Z Caroline Aherne!”
★★★★★ The Advertiser “Pure gold.”
★★★★★ The Adelaide Show “Sublime one-person theatre.”
★★★★ The Scotsman "Joyful & perceptive”
★★★★ The List "A heartfelt and deeply moving tribute”
hannah-maxwell.com
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