Multi-award-winning Australian comedian Hannah Gadsby is bringing their brand new stand-up show, Woof!, to London for two nights only.
Taking place this year on November 4 and 5 at the London Palladium, the routines are set to be a riot: Woof! will follow Gadsby as they muse on hummus, panic attacks, Cabbage Patch Dolls, Taylor Swift, Barbie, as well as life following their 2018 highly-acclaimed Netflix special Nanette, and the world’s many catastrophes.
“Since Nanette, my life has become demonstrably better whilst the world has become demonically worse,” said Gadsby. “I don’t think it’s my fault, but I do think we should talk about it.”
Woof!, which premiered in Sydney in March, has been picking up some excellent, if intriguing, reviews: comedy site Chortle said, “Placing limits on what they are prepared to talk about on stage is one of the [show’s] themes... Yet even an incomplete Gadsby show knocks the socks off many of their contemporaries, and Woof! offers a stingingly funny assembly of typically smart, opinionated and iconoclastic routines.”
The Guardian said: “The comedian’s new standup show feels at times like a work in progress – but maybe that’s the point.” It will tour some American and Canadian cities in June before coming to London in the autumn.
It’s been six years since Gadsby’s hit Emmy-winning film landed on Netflix and made the comedian an international star. Despite already being a well-regarded comedy-writer, the set was embraced around the world and radically transformed their life.
“The world I am in now is simply not the same as the world that I’ve worked slowly and laboriously for over 40 years to understand. And now I’m just a f**king babe in the woods again,” they said to The Guardian in March.
Since Nanette, the 46-year-old has had two subsequent stand-up specials land on Netflix, Hannah Gadsby: Douglas (2020) and Hannah Gadsby: Something Special (2023) – and in 2022 signed a multi-title deal with the streaming giant.
They recently curated the stand-up showcase Hannah Gadsby’s Gender Agenda, which provided a space for genderqueer comics. “I really thought, ‘Well, I do have a little bit more power. I need to learn how to use that’,” said Gadsby.
How to get tickets for the London show?
Tickets for the show will go on sale on Friday April 26 here.
Where else is Hannah Gadsby touring?
Gadsby is also heading to the States and Canada. Their full 2024 tour dates (so far) are:
- Portland – June 5
- Seattle – June 7 (6.30pm)
- Seattle – June 7 (9.30pm)
- Vancouver – June 10
- Oakland – June 14
- San Francisco – June 15
- London – November 4
- London – November 5
