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A Different Kind of Heartbreak
Everyone goes through heartbreak in their 20s but what if you need surgery to fix it?
Composer-comedian Athanasia Kontou was enjoying life, partying with her friends and dating casually to avoid heartache, when she found out she already had two holes in her heart. In this one-woman comedy music show, she tells the personal story of her transformative heart surgery. Stories from Athanasia’s diary entries, songs about being in pain, and jokes about anxiety, coalesce into an authentic, hilarious, and dark hour about finding strength and resilience in vulnerability.
The show might remind you of Bo Burnham's Inside, if he was a classically trained composer.
Athanasia Kontou developed this work as part of her Artistic Research Doctorate at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. She was nominated for an Ivor Novello Award in 2023 and won RLPO’s Rushworth Composition Prize in 2019. She is the winner of Austria’s Best New Comedian 2025.
Composer-comedian Athanasia Kontou was enjoying life, partying with her friends and dating casually to avoid heartache, when she found out she already had two holes in her heart. In this one-woman comedy music show, she tells the personal story of her transformative heart surgery. Stories from Athanasia’s diary entries, songs about being in pain, and jokes about anxiety, coalesce into an authentic, hilarious, and dark hour about finding strength and resilience in vulnerability.
The show might remind you of Bo Burnham's Inside, if he was a classically trained composer.
Athanasia Kontou developed this work as part of her Artistic Research Doctorate at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. She was nominated for an Ivor Novello Award in 2023 and won RLPO’s Rushworth Composition Prize in 2019. She is the winner of Austria’s Best New Comedian 2025.
Tuesday 15 September
The Cockpit, Gateforth Street, London NW8 8EH
Date:Tuesday 15 September – 8:45pm
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Pay What You Can: £7.50, £17.50, £27.50 (incl. booking fees)
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