Hannah found a lump.
MALIGNANT HUMOUR
Dublin Fringe Festival
8 - 15 September
Boy’s School
Smock Alley Theatre
…It’s nothing, right?
Malignant Humour explores the stifled laughter in hospital corridors, the importance of the kindness of medics, being asked if you’re pregnant for the fifth time in a single day, and Blondie.
Read more in RTÉ Culture “Hannah Gumbrielle's high-wire cancer story”
Listen back to Hannah’s interview on the Oliver Callan show on RTÉ Radio 1
Join Hannah for every blood test and biopsy in this mix of trapeze and theatre exploring the death-defying circus act that is chemotherapy. Based on her own experience with cancer, Malignant Humour asks what happens when your own body betrays you, and you’re left hanging in mid air?
This show is for anyone who’s been left alone with their own thoughts in a waiting room for just that bit too long. Take a seat, the doctor will see you shortly.
If you’re brave, you won’t feel a thing.
Photography by Monika Palova,
videography by Record Play Productions.
Malignant Humour runs 8 to 15 September as part of Dublin Fringe Festival at Boy’s School, Smock Alley Theatre, Exchange Street Lower, Dublin 8.
For access information for the Boy’s School, please call 01 677 00 14, email info@smockalley.com, or visit smockalley.com/accessibility.
Maligant Humour was shown as part of Scene + Heard 2024. Supported by Arts Council Ireland, Dublin City Arts Office, Axis Ballymun, Taking Flight, Circusful, and Dance Ireland.