Hannah Gadsby has a tough task ahead of her. Her Netflix special, “Nanette,” made her an instant star outside of her native Australia when it dropped in 2018, but it wasn’t an easy fame. The show required Gadsby to perform emotionally eviscerating content about her own experiences with homophobia and rape, and it indicted the idea that comedy could assuage trauma. At one point in the special, she talks about having to quit comedy because it’s not healthy. Which would have been fine by some who questioned whether what Gadsby was doing was comedy in the first place.
“It was a bit of a beast,” says Gadsby in her typically understated way.
Now she’s back with a new show, “Douglas,” which comes to the Boch Center Shubert Theatre June 19-20 and the Emerson Colonial Theatre June 21. She recently announced that “Douglas” would be coming to Netflix in 2020. Which raises the question: How can Gadsby follow up a mic-drop moment like “Nanette”?
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