2019 Edinburgh Fringe

In Conversation with... Janey Godley

In Conversation with... Janey Godley. Janey Godley
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Venue

7: The Stand's New Town Theatre
Room: Grand Hall

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Multi award-winning, take-no-prisoners, passionate, lyrical, totally honest Scottish comedienne, TV and radio regular, playwright, blogger, bestselling author, columnist and, er, Trump nemesis talks to Graham Spiers about her Glasgow upbringing and her fierce and rare talent. Her 2006 autobiography Handstands In The Dark describes being brought up amid near-Dickensian squalour in tough East End of Glasgow and sexually abused by her uncle, Janey married into a Glasgow criminal family as a teenager, then found herself having to cope with the murder of her mother, violence, religious sectarianism, abject poverty and a frightening family of in-laws.

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Press articles

How Janey Godley became the queen of comedy

The Scottish comedian has drawn on her horrific Glaswegian childhood to create comedy gold. She talks about saying the unsayable, escaping her gangster in-laws and taking on Donald Trump and Boris Johnson.

Libby Brooks, The Guardian, 19th August 2019

Performances

Date Time Venue
8th Aug 2019 12:00 The Stand's New Town Theatre (Grand Hall)

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