Our story

Imploding Fictions started as a globe trotting theatre company drawn to lively, unusual and adventurous theatre. Since the beginning in 2007 we have created stage productions, online theatre and a busy side-programme of readings, workshops, and scratch projects.

Since 2017, the company’s main focus has been producing the multi-award-winning Audio Fiction Podcast The Amelia Project. As of 2025 new projects are in development. 

In 2007 Imploding Fictions kicked off with a production of Hamletmachine at London’s BAC, a show that won international acclaim and toured to Egypt, Italy, France and the Netherlands.

Our second production, the English premiere of the Swiss play Norway.Today, was created during a residency period at the Junction in Cambridge in 2008. A year later Norway.Today was revived at Southwark Playhouse in London.

In 2010 we were invited to make a production for Theater Drachengasse in Vienna. The resulting show Flap and Fear won a Newcomer Award in Austria and subsequently transferred to Oslo in an expanded version. In 2011 we created the online theatre experience You Are Invited… for the Anywhere Theatre Festival in Brisbane. The show took place simultaneously in Spain, Germany, Norway, Britain and the USA and viewers were sent on a route through the different performances via web-cam. In march 2012 we presented the Iranian play White Rabbit Red Rabbit, a performance event which took place six times, in six different theatres across Oslo with six different actors.

In 2009 we set up Oslo International Theatre (OIT). OIT was a platform for contemporary international drama in Norway. OIT’s work has featured plays by Maya van den Heuvel-Arad, Lydia Adetunji, Bruce Norris, Ewald Palmetshofer, Toshiki Okada, Jordan Seavey, Ivor Martinić, Darja Stocker, Niklas Rådström, Anja Hilling, Caryl Churchil, Wallace Shawn, Richard Stirling, Chay Yew, Sara Stridsberg, Esther Gerritsen and Martin Crimp. At the end of 2011 we brought renowned British playwright Simon Stephens to Oslo, as well as theatre and opera director Ramin Gray, for an in depth seminar week with actors, writers and directors from around the world. 2012 saw OIT based at one of Scandinavia’s largest theatres, Det Norske Teatret. The project ran until 2018.

April 2013 we performed THE PREDICTIONS in Oslo. For exactly one year Sammy Metcalfe wrote one prediction every day about the world on 13th April 2013. The 365 predictions formed the basis of a durational show performed at Cafeteatret/Nordic Black Theatre in Oslo.

In 2014 we curated Theatre Café Festival Oslo, as part of Theatre Café Festival Europe 2014-2015, and in 2015 we produced the monologue show Conversation / Den Perfekte Samtalen which was performed several places in Norway. 2016 was focused on the development of new plays and productions,

2017 saw us celebrating ten years as a company whilst also launching our brand new audio drama podcast series The Amelia Project. In 2020 the show became part of the Fable & Folly Network. By 2025 the show has over 10 million downloads.

We are continuing the adventure with The Amelia Project, which has won us several awards and gained recognition from fans and critics. The series is set to continue. New projects are also in the pipeline. 

SELECTED AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS

WINNER: 2025 Best Fiction Podcast Script at Austin Film Festival with Dial It Up

OFFICIAL SELECTION: 2025 Aesthetica Short Film Festival Podcast Lounge with The Amelia Project

WINNER: 2023 Audio Verse Awards – 8 awards including Best Existing Production, Writing,
Sound Design, Musical Direction, Recurring Voice & Guest Performer

WINNER: 2022 Audio Verse Awards – 10 awards including Best Audio Play, Writing,
Sound Design, Composition & Guest Performer

WINNER: 2022 One Voice Awards UK – Audio Drama Best Performance, Male

WINNER: 2021 Audio Verse Awards – 7 awards including Best Original Composition, Leading Role, Supporting Role, Vocal Direction and Audio Play Production

WINNER: 2020 Audio Verse Awards – 6 awards including Best Audio Play Production
and Writing of an Audio Play Production

WINNER: 2020 Discover Pods Awards – Best Audio Drama or Fiction Podcast


RUNNER UP: 2020 Discover Pods Awards – Best Overall Podcast

WINNER: Audio Verse Awards 2019 – Best Performance of a Supporting Role in an Audio Play Production
/ Best Instrumental Composition in a Production

NOMINEE: British Podcast Awards 2019 – Best Fiction

FINALIST: Fiction Podcast Finalist at Austin Film Festival with The Amelia Project. 2017, Austin

WINNER: Hedda Award, Special Artistic Achievement for Oslo International Theatre. 2011, Oslo

WINNER: Newcomer Award, Theater Drachengasse for Flap and Fear. 2010, Vienna

WINNER: Young Angels Theatremakers Award with Norway.Today. 2008, London

WINNER: Premio Internazionale Claudio Gora for Hamletmachine. 2007, Rome