Atlanta Symphony Hall Live Presents Hannah Gadsby - Body Of Work Tour
Multi-award-winning Hannah Gadsby broke comedy with her show “Nanette” when she declared that she was quitting stand-up. In her new book, “Ten Steps to Nanette,” she takes us through the defining moments in her life that led to her powerful decision to tell the truth—no matter the cost.
Delta Atlanta Symphony Hall Live and AEG present Gadsby’s brand new, feel-good live show – “Body of Work” – Sunday, May 1, at 7 PM. A Cappella Books will have signed copies “Ten Steps to Nanette” available for purchase at the event.
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Effective September 1, 2021, all patrons will be required to show the following upon entry to Atlanta Symphony Hall:
• Proof of vaccination or a current negative COVID-19 test
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• Face masks covering nose and mouth
About the Book
“There is nothing stronger than a broken woman who has rebuilt herself,” Hannah Gadsby declared in her show “Nanette,” a scorching critique of the way society conducts public debates about marginalized communities. When it premiered on Netflix, it left audiences captivated by her blistering honesty and her singular ability to take them from rolling laughter to devastated silence. “Ten Steps to Nanette” continues Gadsby’s tradition of confounding expectations and norms, properly introducing us to one of the most explosive, formative voices of our time.
Gadsby grew up as the youngest of five children in an isolated town in Tasmania, where homosexuality was illegal until 1997. She perceived her childhood as safe and “normal,” but as she gained an awareness of her burgeoning queerness, the outside world began to undermine the “vulnerably thin veneer” of her existence. After moving to mainland Australia and receiving a degree in art history, Gadsby found herself adrift, working itinerant jobs and enduring years of isolation punctuated by homophobic and sexual violence. At age twenty-seven, without a home or the ability to imagine her own future, she was urged by a friend to enter a stand-up competition. She won, and so began her career in comedy.
Gadsby became well known for her self-deprecating, autobiographical humor that made her the butt of her own jokes. But in 2015, as Australia debated the legality of same-sex marriage, Gadsby started to question this mode of storytelling, beginning work on a show that would become “the most-talked-about, written-about, shared-about comedy act in years” (The New York Times).
Harrowing and hilarious, “Ten Steps to Nanette” traces Gadsby’s growth as a queer person, to her ever-evolving relationship with comedy, and her struggle with late-in-life diagnoses of autism and ADHD, finally arriving at the backbone of “Nanette”: the renouncement of self-deprecation, the rejection of misogyny, and the moral significance of truth-telling.
About the Author
Hannah Gadsby stopped stand-up comedy in its tracks with her multi-award-winning show “Nanette,” which played to sold-out houses in Australia, the UK, and New York. Its launch on Netflix, and subsequent Emmy and Peabody wins, took “Nanette” (and Hannah) to the world. Hannah’s difficult second album (which was also her eleventh solo show) was named “Douglas,” after her dog. Hannah walked Douglas around the world, selling out and scoring another Emmy nomination. Before all of this, Hannah appeared as a character called Hannah in “Please Like Me” (Hulu) and toured her native Australia and the UK as a stand-up comedian. She made art documentaries and did plenty of other things over the course of more than a decade in comedy, but that will do for now.
