Catch Hannah Gadsby’s New Show, Body of Work at Darwin Festival
Hannah Gadsby, world class, award winning funny person, has a brand new live show – Body of Work – hitting stages across Australia and New Zealand from July 2021.
Body of Work will premiere in Darwin as a part of the Darwin Festival at The Playhouse, the Darwin Entertainment Centre on Sunday 22 August, 2021.
In 2018 the global sensation and ground breaking Netflix special Nanette really changed things for Hannah. She won an Emmy and a Peabody. After that a lot of people (heaps actually) started paying attention to what she had to say. Opportunities came a knocking, but Hannah decided to stick with what she loves and couldn’t quit: stand up comedy.
So, in 2019 she wrote and toured the critically acclaimed Douglas from Helsinki to Washington DC and everywhere in between, culminating in recording the show for Netflix in Los Angeles in February 2020, just in time for well…the rest of 2020. The year that was like no other saw Hannah bunkering down in her homeland, Australia, sheltering from a global pandemic and pondering what was next.
That ponder is now a show. A brand new live show. One could say it’s a new body of work. Couldn’t one?
Fortunately, being in Australia at this particular moment in history means that Hannah is able to premiere Body of Work in Canberra this July, before taking in a national tour and then embarking on a UK, European and North American leg in early 2022.
Tickets for Hannah Gadsby’s Body of Work at Darwin Festival go on sale Friday 14 May at 9am. www.darwinfestival.org.au
About Hannah Gadsby
The overnight success of Hannah Gadsby was more than ten years in the making, with her award-winning stand upshows a sell out fixture in festivals across Australia and the UK since 2009. She played a character called Hannahon the TV series
Please Like Me and has hosted three art documentaries, inspired by comedy art lectures she created to accompany collections at major galleries. Hannah’s first book will be released later this year.
Darwin Festival runs Thu 5 – Sun 22 August. Full program announced Friday 18 June.
Darwin Festival is proudly supported by the Northern Territory Government and City of Darwin.
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