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Body Of Work expected in the UK early next year
Hannah Gadsby has announced a new stand-up show, which will be coming to the UK early next year.
Body Of Work follows the success of her international breakthrough smash Nanette and its follow-up Douglas, both of which have been released as Netflix specials.
She today announced a raft of Australian and New Zealand dates from July to November, as well as revealing the striking tour image, above. And while no European dates have yet been confirmed, she is expected here early in 2022.
Tweeting the news of the first dates, she said: ‘Here’s a bit of Hooray… I have a new show… it’s called BODY OF WORK… and I’ll be visiting lots of places across OZ and NZ.
I have spoken to many former paramilitaries, some of whom killed, and asked what motivated them. Many of them started as young as 14. They enjoyed rioting with little sense of political possibilities, but then they got hardened by their experiences of arrest and interrogation.
Or they saw the Troubles get more violent and more threatening and, by then, they were already involved in organisations which were preparing for war.
Bobby Storey was only 15 when he joined the IRA. For all that he is remembered as a hard man and a tactician, it can hardly be assumed that he had worked out his motivation as a mere kid.
Sharon Stone reveals untold details about her past in her new memoir
03 Apr 2021 Sharon Stone has released a new memoir, The Beauty of Living Twice. TNS
During an extended hospitalisation in 2001, when Sharon Stone was being treated for a stroke and a subarachnoid haemorrhage that had bled into her brain, head and spine, she writes that she was visited by her grandmother Lela, who had been dead for 30 years.
“This is where it gets weird,” Stone writes in a new memoir, “The Beauty of Living Twice,” which Atlantic Books published in the US last month (and Allen & Unwin published in the UK yesterday). Lela came to convey a warning: “Whatever you do, don’t move your neck.” It is one of several scenes from her life that Stone, the 63-year-old star of films like “Basic Instinct,” “Casino” and “The Quick and the Dead,” relates with candour and sardonic humour. Despite her long career in Hollywood playing femme fatales and women of mystery e