Following the swift sell-out of Stan’s Cafe’s Satie 100 event, the Birmingham theatre company have added a special matinee performance of Memoirs Of An Amnesiac on Saturday 5 July 2025, at 2pm (Our Facility, Selly Oak, Birmingham).
First performed in 1992, Memoirs Of An Amnesiac was the second stage production from the then recently established Stan’s Cafe. Having debuted as part of Birmingham’s Towards The Millennium Festival, the production – inspired by the eccentric life of French composer Erik Satie (1866-1925) – went on to successfully tour the UK, with stop-offs including Cheltenham International Festival and London’s ICA.
A strange, dark and funny biographical play about obsession, delusion, identity, and hero worship Memoirs Of An Amnesiac finds eccentric loner Eric Smith guiding imaginary visitors around his bedsit Satie museum, and narrating fake film footage of his hero. But then the boundaries between Smith’s interior world and the walls of his room start to become increasingly blurred, and the questioning voices in his head become more difficult to ignore …
This special re-staging reunites the production’s original cast of actor Graeme Rose and musician Richard Chew.
◼ See Memoirs Of An Amnesiac on Saturday 5 July 2025, 2pm, at Stan’s Cafe, Our Facility, Oakdale Centre, Umberslade Road, Birmingham B29 7RZ. Tickets £10 (performance only), from: https://stans.cafe/Saturday 5 July 2025