Hannah Gadsbyis coming back for more afterNanette, her first Netflix comedy special that dropped in June 2018.
Gadsby announced the timeline forDouglasin Los Angeles amid all the For Your Consideration Netflix events taking place this month.
Clearly she hasn’t quit comedy, as Gadsby once said during her award-winningNanette.
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She began touringDouglas named after her beloved dog!
In a previous interview withThe Hollywood Reporter, Gadsby teasedDouglaswill be more like her pre-Nanettecomedic style.
But withNanette, I flipped that.
With this show, the humor will be back in," she explained.
I’m looking forward to this thinking, ‘Can do!’
I don’t have any intention of workshopping any of my traumas on stage again.
That took a toll.
And also, I kinda did that.
Of course, I can’t help but think about serious stuff.
I tend not to try and dwell too much on specifics at this point of the creative process.
There’s about four hours of show that I’m whittling down.
But I’m interested in the dynamics of power and privilege."
“Everyone understands the coming-out story now: It is part of popular culture,” she said.
“But women with autism is a very niche experience.
I can’t predict how people are going to respond.”
“Autism is overwhelming,” she added.
“So people see the distress of it.
Nobody sees that, and I don’t see that celebrated.
It is different and it is not all sad.
[People think] it’s a devastating existence.
It’s the world we’ve created that is not geared in our favor.”
