Hannah Gadsby: Happiness Is A Bedside Table

Since her 2006 win in the Raw Comedy Competition Hannah Gadsby has been on an upward journey to comedy success. Gadsby's new show Happiness Is A Bedside Table continues the ascent. Gadsby is an absolute delight. In Gadsby's assured hands we follow her on the slow and painful journey from a self-loathing adolescent to her current state, at the age of 35, of self-acceptance and subsequent contentment. Often her stories make would make you cry if they weren't told so hilariously: getting stuck on a waterslide as an overweight adolescent, being unnecessarily de-wormed by her villainous ex-girlfriend and her love of neck to knee bathers. The show is deftly constructed and the themes explored with honesty, intelligence and compassion. The audience is left feeling as if they had been in the presence of a friend. Happiness Is A Bedside Table was insightful, quirky and ultimately uplifting. Highly recommended.