Return to London Soho Theatre, 03 December 2024– 11 January 2025, following a sold out, Soho Theatre run in February 24, and breakout success in Australia and USA.
NOMINATED: BEST SHOW EDINBURGH COMEDY AWARD 2023
WINNER: BEST SHOW THE COMEDIANS CHOICE AWARD 2023
WINNER: BEST SHOW THE(ISH)EDINBURGH COMEDY AWARDS 2023
NOMINATED: BEST COMEDY SHOW MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL COMEDY AWARDS 2024
‘Masli’s breakthrough, poignant show has its audience in stitches. So, that’s how cults are born’ New York Times
‘New York’s wildest show’ New York Magazine
‘Julia Masli’s eldritch, exquisite show…a mix of elevated clown work and group-therapy session’ New Yorker
‘Bold, Bizarre and Brilliant. It must be experienced in person’ Manhattan Digest ★★★★★
‘One of this Fringe’s true tonics…hot property’ Guardian ★★★★★
‘A runaway hit with a lightning-in-a-bottle sense of capturing something new and special.’ Chortle ★★★★★
‘Julia Masli is magic’ Beyond the Joke ★★★★
‘An utterly beguiling mix of clowning confessional and semi-spontaneous stunts’ The Times ★★★★
‘Mesmerising…a delightfully surreal distraction’ The Telegraph ★★★★
‘Such an innovative idea…vacillates between excruciating absurdity and heart-pinching pathos.’ The Independent
‘Problem?’
A witch-like agony aunt, armed with a bronze leg and a tiny handbell, peers out into the audience, asking for their innermost secrets, desires, worries. A few moments later– perhaps via a visit to the stage, perhaps after a soul baring conversation, or maybe with help from some other audience member– their problems are no more.
At the 2023 Edinburgh Fringe, Estonian clown Julia Masli launched an under-the-radar work in progress show. It was on at midnight; no press were invited; the idea was to solve people’s problems. What happened next is already legendary. Ha HaHaHaHaHaHa,asit was called, became the biggest talking-point of the festival and earned a nomination for Best Show award. Her first four-week run at the Soho Theatre sold out completely. After causing a storm at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival– where she again came away with a Best Show nomination– Julia turned her magic wand onto the United States, selling out seasons in New York (off-Broadway), Los Angeles and Washington DC.
Less than eighteen months after it all began, she is well on the way to ending all the world’s woes and collecting a Nobel Peace Prize. But before all that, there’s one more chance to see her as she brings her tiny handbell and bronze leg back to Soho. A unique, bewitching performer, Julia Masli has created a genre-defying show: a heady brew of participation, soundscapes, quickfire improv and pure, glorious chaos. While struggling to describe exactly what they saw, audiences and critics on three continents have been unanimous in raving about
this unique experience. Now, she returns to London to heal and terrify us all over again.
Twitter: @JuliaMasli | Instagram: @juliamasli
@impatientUK | @impatientproductions
Press images on the link HERE- please credit photographer listed.
For further information and interview requests, please contact Impatient Productions:
Maddy Bye, press@impatientproductionsuk.com 07795212971
Tuesday 3 December– Soho Theatre, London https://sohotheatre.com/events/julia-masli-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha/
Saturday 11 January