THE TIMES:

‘in quite a different league…astonishingly assured debut performance…a really substantial piece of writing…the language is rich…wrapped up in a compelling narrative…she speaks lyrically and powerfully.’

WHATSONSTAGE:

‘Sabrina Mahfouz firmly impacts on the audience. She delights with impressive style of delivery…punchy, dry humour and piercing poetry…’

THE HERALD: ‘a fearlessly exuberant little show’

EXEUNT MAGAZINE: ‘striking imagery…elegant and tender’

FRINGE REVIEW: ‘A raw talent with huge potential…quite extraordinary’

THE GUARDIAN: ‘magical stuff…immense detail…nerveless and tight…I’d happily see this again’

THE SCOTSMAN: ‘wordly-wise insights into human nature…unforgettable and very funny…astonishing…like Steven Berkoff’

THE NEW YORK TIMES: ‘Dry ice is an Underbelly highlight’

BOOK TICKETS FOR DRY ICE 4-28 AUGUST AT UNDERBELLY COWGATE, EDINBURGH – HERE

How well do you know The Hospital Club?

Can you name the rooms these stills were taken from? Tut tut you’re not exploring enough if you can’t. These are some photos from the documentary being made by SAMEER PATEL for BAFTA and Festival Republic about my poetry.

I’ll be at Latitude this weekend in the Poetry Arena Friday night at 22.50 and Sunday at 14.10… and anyone going to Edinburgh Festival remember to catch my show at Underbelly: TICKETS HERE.

Get Tickets HERE!

Is the name of the sound reactive lighting installation Andrea Cuius and Roland Ellis created for my solo show Dry Ice. Here is how gorgeous it looked:

To buy tickets for Dry Ice at Edinburgh Festival throughout August, please go to:

http://www.edfringe.com/whats-on/theatre/dry-ice

AND COME AND SEE AN EXTRACT ON MONDAY 13 JUNE AT THE HOSPITAL CLUB in THE GAMES ROOM, 7PM!

PIPS TAYLOR interviews me and provides snippets of my show for the fun-sized culture and arts video blog, Pinch TV. Including music by Anne Chmewlewsky and lighting installation by Roland Ellis and Andrea Cuius.

This is the first fantastic image from the photography and poetry project I’m currently working on with wonder photographer Zoe Buckman and super stylist Molly Roe. The series is based on a selection of my poems. As a crazy trio of creatives we pick it apart and come up with a visual story to tell that is initially inspired by the story of the poem. The one above is inspired by ‘If I Were A Rose’:

If I were a rose

I’d probably want redder petals

And a lover to rub the thorn from my side

If I were a rose

I’d probably want the rain wetter

And a personal patch of breeze to keep me dry

If I were a rose

I’d probably expect my stem to stay wilt-free

And for my life certainly not to end in a petrol station

Another piece in the series, ‘Say It’ , is viewable on http://www.zoebuckman.com. The project is on-going and will be exhibited in London and New York in 2012.

Dry Ice had a sell-out preview run at New Wimbledon Studio in April as part of their Fresh Ideas season. THANK YOU so much to everyone who came, listened, clapped and filled out feed my back forms. This was all hugely appreciated. Massive big can’t do the belt up thanks to the following people without whom that run would no way no way have been possible:

Roland Ellis and Andrea Cuius – who designed the amazing voice reactive lighting installation pictured above and below – each bulb was connected, coded and designed by them to react to a particular frequency of my voice (and who I found through Dean McNamee after he had an installation at THE HOSPITAL CLUB’s CiR event in March); High Tide Genesis Lab who developed the show at the baby stages (special thanks to Natalie Ibu); Anne Chmelewsky for her magical original music score; Prasanna Puwanarajah and Riz Ahmed for their delightful directing skills. Next stop – New York!

Please visit my website at www.sabrinamahfouz.com for up to date info on tickets and dates for Edinburgh (Underbelly, 4-28 August 2011).

All photos by Andrea Cuius

Poets don’t often get their portraits taken. It’s usually a picture of them spitting on to a mic on a festival stage or with a pen in their hand. Naomi Woddis, a wondrous writer and photographer, has changed all that:

‘Featuring portraits of thirty key players from today’s spoken-word world, it’s real rogues’ gallery – but in the nicest possible way. And, to ensure it’s a genuinely three-dimensional experience, some of them will be stepping out of the celluloid, as it were, and shaking their photogenic booty on the stage. Featuring performances from Sabrina Mahfouz, A F Harrold, Dzifa Benson, Joe Duggan, Jasmine Cooray, Joelle Taylor, Kayo Chingonyi and Tshaka Campbell. Get arty with the literati and get yourself down to the Albany.’

If you look closely at the flyer above you’ll see that my portrait is taken at our very own Hospital Club, on the 2nd Floor!

Tickets for Poetry Snapshots on Friday 10 June are only £3! Available here.

I recently went to New York with Old Vic New Voices TS Eliot UK/US Exchange. It was great. Lots of people are saying awesome. I’m trying not to but it’s hard.

The Exchange is a brilliant program that takes 7 of the best emerging writers, directors and producers the UK has to offer, as well as over 20 of the hottest young actors, to New York to share their wares with the yanks. We got to meet senior staff at all the places we admire and aspire to. Then they do the same a few weeks later. I will be bringing them to The Hospital Club so do come and say hello. You will spot them as they all have very white teeth.

I was lucky enough to work with the following superstars for our New York showcase (at The Vineyard Theatre): Director Oliver Rose , Producer Sara Doctors and actors Lesa Gillespie, Heather Johnson, Patrick Myles and David Mumeni.

The play I wrote was a ten minute piece set in an East London launderette on the day of the Royal Wedding, where people had a lot more to talk about that Kate’s dress. It was funny. If you’d like to see it at a washing machine near you do get in touch.