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Jun 14
1 min

Introduction to Memoir Writing Workshop for Arthouse Jersey

Arthouse Jersey asked me to record an online workshop for people to enjoy during lockdown. It's my first time recording one of these so I...

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Amber Massie-Blomfield

Jun 13
3 min

Breath

The lungs of London. That’s what they called the city’s parks in Victorian times, when the streets were filled with smog so dense they ga...

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Amber Massie-Blomfield

Jun 13
10 min

Dismantling the Theatre Building

Written for the Winter 2019 issue of Brixton Review of Books. You know the one about Trigger’s broom? In an iconic scene from Only Fools ...

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Amber Massie-Blomfield

Feb 19
4 min

On Handling Rejection

I wrote this for The Pool a couple of years ago but of course it's now disappeared so I'm sharing it here as someone was asking for tips ...

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Amber Massie-Blomfield

Feb 10
3 min

A straight track through trees

Passing down a straight track through a holloway of trees, their bows still black with winter, the sun strikes and everything is so right...

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Amber Massie-Blomfield

Dec 18, 2019
1 min

ArtHouse Jersey Residency

Really chuffed to be invited on another writer's residency in January/February 2020, this time with the brilliant ArtHouse Jersey. I'll b...

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Amber Massie-Blomfield

Nov 26, 2019
12 min

Eugene Ionesco & Theatre de la Huchette

“The light of memory, or rather the light that memory lends to things, is the palest light of all. I am not quite sure whether I am dream...

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Amber Massie-Blomfield

Nov 4, 2019
3 min

On the benefits of switching off (Twitter)

Originally written for Gladstone's Library's blog during my residency there in October. It’s a strange month to be on retreat from realit...

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Amber Massie-Blomfield

Oct 10, 2019
7 min

Against knee-jerkism, or what I learnt from tweeting about the Old Vic loos.

I want to write something to document what’s happened over the last week, since I tweeted a response to the Old Vic’s announcement that t...

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Amber Massie-Blomfield

Oct 8, 2019
3 min

That piece that The Stage took down...

I wrote a piece on the gender neutral toilets at the Old Vic, which was published by The Stage last Friday. They published a subsequent p...

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Amber Massie-Blomfield

Jun 24, 2019
3 min

Making and Breaking (On Habits)

I like to do it in the mornings. I make a strong cup of coffee and climb back into my bed, sit there with my laptop as the sun climbs outsid

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Amber Massie-Blomfield

May 14, 2019
3 min

On learning how to listen.

This originally appeared on The Pool (RIP). As it's sadly not available there any longer, and this week is Mental Health Awareness week, ...

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Amber Massie-Blomfield

May 12, 2019
1 min

Theatre Book Prize

Bloody OVER THE MOON to have been shortlisted for the Theatre Book Prize for the best book on British Theatre published in 2018, for 'Twe...

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Amber Massie-Blomfield

Apr 2, 2019
3 min

ART IN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE

Working in the arts gets you into some strange situations. Over the last year, the unlikely trajectory of my career has led to me attempt...

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Amber Massie-Blomfield

Dec 18, 2018
1 min

January events...

If you JUST DON'T GET TO HANG WITH ME ENOUGH - you will get three great chances to do so in January. You can join me VERY bright and earl...

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Amber Massie-Blomfield

Oct 31, 2018
1 min

All The World's A Stage: Shakespeare in London (17 November)

I'll be joining a stellar line up of ACTUAL experts to talk about William Shakespeare in London on 17 November at Waterstones in Gower St...

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Amber Massie-Blomfield

Oct 31, 2018
1 min

Gladstone Library's 2019 Writers-in-Residence Launch

HUGE thanks to the marvellous team from Gladstone Library for a wonderful night celebrating the 2019 writers-in-residence at the Liberal ...

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Amber Massie-Blomfield

Sep 13, 2018
1 min

Gladstone Library Politics in Residence Prize 2019

I'm over the MOON to have been selected as political writer-in-residence for the extraordinarily beautiful Gladstone Library, where I'll ...

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Amber Massie-Blomfield

Aug 27, 2018
1 min

The Times Literary Supplement reviews Twenty Theatres...

So thrilled that Twenty Theatres To See Before You Die has received this thoughtful, detailed review in the latest edition of The Times L...

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Amber Massie-Blomfield

Aug 27, 2018
1 min

Edinburgh Launch at Golden Hare Books

On 8th August, we launched 20 Theatres to See Before You Die at Edinburgh's best independent bookshop, Golden Hare Books. Matt Trueman wa...

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