Ruby Wax: Sane New World
St James Theatre
Reviewed on Wednesday 4th March 2015
★★★★
Ruby Wax is back once again with another one-woman show entitled Sane New World, currently playing at the St James Theatre before embarking on a tour in Australia and the UK.
Ruby Wax is back once again with another one-woman show entitled Sane New World, currently playing at the St James Theatre before embarking on a tour in Australia and the UK.Following her graduation from Oxford University with a Masters in mindfulness-based cognitive therapy last year, Wax’s new show combines comedy and a lecture with ease. The information, which some may find overwhelming in large chunks, is broken down into easy to understand bite-size pieces, with Wax herself using her own experiences as evidence to help the audience to understand her mental state.
She’s right when she says we have to keep ourselves busy constantly and the higher up the hierarchy you climb, the busier we get until it all becomes a bit too much. She gives the example of worrying about an earthquake somewhere half way around the world - we’re powerless to do anything about it and yet we spend our whole lives constantly worrying and getting stressed about things that are outside of our control.
