Unreliable Romances was first produced in the Brighton Festival in 1995. Beginning life as the storytelling event Suns and Lovers at the Bear Cave Gallery, it took the form of a Victorian-style magic lantern show with specially-made images and sounds.

A full-length version, now called Unreliable Romances, featuring guest artistes, actors and musicians and produced in the style of a 1940s radio broadcast (with influences ranging from detective and science fiction serials to surrealism and beat generation cabaret) enthralled audiences at the David Land Centre in 1996 and 1997 before moving to Edinburgh in the same year.

Afterthought Theatre Productions performed Unreliable Romances to sell-out audiences at the Edinburgh Festival as part of their programme of Festival events, which also included Glimpse, a quartet of original plays [An Honorary Man, Turning the Handle, Little Girls Like to Kiss and Backstage Whispers].

Extracts from Unreliable Romances have been performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Club, and opened the Fringe Sunday theatre event, where it was so successful that the organisers requested a second performance later in the day.

Funny, entertaining and engrossing, Unreliable Romances has been constantly evolving since its earliest performancesand is still performed regularly.