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, 2020
- 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...
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Amber Massie-Blomfield
- Jun 13, 2020
- 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, 2020
- 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, 2020
- 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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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