48 Thoughts Per Minute
A fast-paced, hilarious & joyfully chaotic show, about all the things we think but do not say
Some scientists believe that your brain fires off about 48 thoughts per minute*, that’s 70,000 a day. So what exactly are we thinking about? 48 Thoughts Per Minute is our new show about just that and it’s our most inventive, laugh-out-loud show yet!
Set over the course of three minutes as one woman awaits some potentially life-changing news, 48 Thoughts Per Minute is a fast-paced, joyfully chaotic and warmly relatable story about the relationship we all have with ourselves. From mirror-based self-reflection, 3am catastrophising and memories that arrive uninvited, it’s a high-speed journey through four different characters’ minds and one woman’s unstoppable cascade of thoughts as she awaits her fate.
Co-created with the celebrated comedian Jessica Fostekew (Iconic Breath, The Guilty Feminist and Hoovering), the show blends sharp new writing with verbatim stories from real people from across the UK. Working with a team of academic experts and designers, this is a show set inside a head where emotions, memories and chemical reactions all meet. And you’ll have the option to join in too, sharing your own thoughts via your smartphone.
To book please get in touch withour Executive ProducerCharlotte Kalantari-Gregory…
Equal parts belly laughs and gentle gut-punch, 48 Thoughts asks us to consider how we approach the world around us whilst navigating the most important relationship we have, the one with ourselves.
Closed captions are available for 48 Thoughts Per Minute, delivered to audience members’ own mobile devices.
*From The American Journal of Medicine.
Content Warning: Contains strong language and themes of infertility and grief throughout.
Age guidance: 14+
As the show sees us return to our Verbatim roots we want to ask for your help to gather your thoughts about your thoughts. We hope our new ‘Conversation Starter’ film above will get you thinking and talking about what it’s like inside your head. This is such a fascinating area of research and one we rarely share with others. We would love to hear from you about your internal experience.
We’d be super grateful if you could spend 10 mins filling out our questionnaire. We might even use some of your answers and stories anonymously in the show! Please feel free to skip questions and only share what you are comfortable with. You can access the questions via the QR code at the end of the film, or directly here.
Alternatively, if you don’t get on with typing, then please feel free to read the questions and then send a voice recording of some of your thoughts, experiences and responses to Jemma@thepaperbirds.com. We are very excited to hear from you however you choose to respond.
Thank you so much for contributing to the research and development of the show.
Big Love – The Birds x
