“What seems, at face value, to be a light-hearted comedy about an inept middle-aged spinster attempting poetry is actually a very, very clever piece of solo theatre... one of the best performances I’ve seen.”
“Shows like this are good art. They remind us that everyone matters, that the universe would be less without any one of us.”
When her best friend Angela goes looking for love in South America, leaving her beloved rabbit behind, Ms Samantha Mann starts to think about how much she has missed out on by closing herself off from meaningful relationships. Taking us on a journey that tells of hilarious awkwardness and infuriating missed connections, Ms Samantha Mann reveals the hole left by the death of someone very close to her and her plans for her new life as a Spoken Word Artist.
First performed in Exeter (UK) at the 2014 Ignite Festival and most recently performed in Edmonton (Canada) at the 2018 Edmonton Fringe Festival, Stories About Love, Death & A Rabbit is an hour of award-winning heart-breaking comedy storytelling about love, loss and bad poetry from Ms Samantha Mann. You can watch the show in its entirety on Vimeo here.
Winner of the Festival Spirit/Audience Favourite Award at the 2017 Norway Fringe Festival, the Grand Prix at the 2016 Stockholm Fringe Festival and a Mervyn Stutter's Spirit Of The Fringe Award (or 'Merv') at the 2014 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Nominated for Best English Comedy (Laugh Out Loud) and Best English Performance (Centaur Theatre) at the 2018 St Ambroise Montréal Fringe Festival, and for Best Comedy Show (2014) and Best Individual Comedy Performance (2015) at the Buxton Fringe Festival. Judged Best Individual Performance of 2014 by Chris Neville-Smith of chrisontheatre.wordpress.com.
The video recording above was made at the St Ambroise Montréal Fringe Festival on the 10th June, 2018, by Reese Turner for RE:Productions.
Photograph at the top of this page by Oda Egjar Starheim