Tickets £10 / £8 concessions
Doors open 7.30pm, show starts 8pm
This show is for a seated audience

This show is a Work in Progress

Welcome into the meandering mind of a South-Indian somebody who could be anybody.

Anu’s work-in-progress stand-up show is about a woman filmmaker’s view of the world. A comic tale of a full-time mom with part-time attempts at sanity, sewing and show business.

Unlearning her lessons as an engineer, when all she had to do was stick forks in toasters, Anu describes her great adventures and paints a nomadic picture of the life and times of a comedian, filmmaker and sometime triathlete.

Breaking down social and sporting barriers, Anu became the first ever Indian athlete to qualify for a 70.3 World Championship event and the first Asian to finish an Ultraman (10km swim, 420km bike ride, 84.4km run), placing 6 th in the Ultraman Canada in 2009.

In 2016, her book Anywhere But Home: Adventure In Endurance, an intimate portrait of a single woman in India, was published in India and the States to critical acclaim and was long-listed for the Mumbai Film Festival’s word-to-screen market. She made her first film 6 months post-partum, armed with a breast pump and a few kgs of gumption, and her feature scripts have since found themselves at the final rounds of Sundance Episodic Labs 2020 and Rotterdam Film Festival. Her short film Split has just been accepted at the Lighthouse International Film Festival in New Jersey.

Having trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London and Philippe Gaulier’s prestigious Ecole Gaulier in France, where being forced to perform by Philippe made her into a stand-up, Anu has performed off-Broadway, in Japan, Prague and the UK.

“A cathartic whirlwind” BROADWAY WORLD
“Refreshingly frank, relatable and Inspiring” FRINGE REVIEW
“Anu Vaidyanathan brings a unique perspective and a sharp wit to her shows” DECCAN CHRONICLE
“one mad, brown mommy’s take on how the definitions of words change before and during motherhood.” GOTHAMIS