A hilarious ode to all things amateur dramatics
In this award-winning storytelling show, join Hannah Maxwell 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).
Hilarious and touching, 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.
Winner of Weekly Award for Best Theatre at Adelaide Fringe in 2025.
Suitable 14+ (occasional bad language, minor drug references)
Running Time: 70mins no interval
"A heartfelt and deeply moving tribute"
The List
"Joyful & perceptive"
The Scotsman