Image description: A woman lays in the middle of bunches of bananas. Her legs are sticking out of a yellow beanbag. A little white dog is sitting on top of her looking up.

“Sometimes I think I have felt everything I’m ever gonna feel and from here on out, I’m not gonna feel anything new. Just lesser versions of what I’ve already felt” - Theodore, Her (2013)

Life is No Laughing Matter is a performance about depression, suicide, and cure attempts.

Part personal narrative, part social rant, part mess; Life is No Laughing Matter tells the exhausting and hilarious account of living with depression. Demi was told to eat a banana a day and think happy thoughts. Inevitably she got worse. So she bought Yoko the dog to save her. In a generous and painfully honest performance, Demi talks of causes, cures, and what happens when you eat 56 bananas.

Expect shit metaphors, co-dependency, holy water, and the one and only Yoko Ono

Nominated for ‘The Total Theatre Award for Emerging Artist’ and ‘The Mental Health Fringe Award’ The show won a Lustrum Award from Summerhall.

Written by Demi Nandhra Directed by Francesca Millican-Slater Set Design by Claire Browne Lighting design by Lizzie Moran

Original Lighting Design: Ethan Hudson Original video projections: Will Monks Original Dramaturgical Support: Anna Himali Howard & Clive Judd Original Producer: Toni Lewis

For booking info contact deminandhra@gmail.com TOUR PACK

“For all its deceptive lightness, Life Is No Laughing Matter is making a serious and necessary intervention”. -The Guardian

“it is bitterly angry and expertly crafted”-The Scotsman

"Her topic could be a hard-sell but she manages to strike the perfect balance between comic and tragic.”- EdFestMag

"Underneath the charm and the silliness, there is rage and resilience"- Exeunt Magazine

1 of 15 Best Fringe shows by The Guardian

REVIEWS

5760 (1).jpg — THE GUARDIAN
EXEUNT

THE SCOTSMAN
STAGE DOOR

Image description: Woman unveils a pile of bananas on a trolley.

CURRENT

Available for touring 2021

Contact us @ deminandhra@gmail.com

HI RES POSTER.jpg — Currently In development for TV

With Firebird Pictures

Image description: Two people on stage, one with back to the audience. Woman smiling.

Image description: Woman lays within a large yellow beanbag. Legs are being pulled out by a man in a hoodie. A dog looks on. Image credit: Lou Johnson

Image description: Woman on stage in mid-movement in front of a trolley of bananas.

Image description: Man sits at a table on stage with a whsitle in mouth looking at a woman who is throwing a banana towards him.

Image description: Man sits at a table on stage with a whistle in mouth looking at a woman who is running away from him.

Woman sits in a yellow beanbag in a pink backdrop. A white dog is at the back.

Image description: A woman dressed in a large yellow rain coat is in the street with a tiny white dog sitting next to her.

Credit: The Guardian