Ruby Wax brings sanity to York
ON Monday, September 14, Ruby Wax, author of Sunday Times bestseller Sane New World: Taming the Mind, will be bringing her one-woman show based on her book to the Grand Opera House in York.
The classically trained 62-year-old, came to prominence as a comic interviewer, playing up to British perceptions of the strident American, which she repeated in the TV sitcom Girls on Top. Wax has also appeared in Absolutely Fabulous, where she was also script editor. Her memoirs, How Do You Want Me? was also a best-seller.
Her book helps the reader to understand why we sabotage our own sanity and provides a manual on how to survive the 21st Century, using Wax’s knowledge from her recent Masters Degree in mindfulness-based cognitive therapy at Oxford University, spiked with her trademark comedy.
“We know so much about how the world works – but so little about our how our own minds work. It’s like having a Ferrari on top of your head but no one gave you the keys. We are not equipped for this century, it’s too hard, too fast, and too full of fear; we just don’t have the bandwidth. Our brains can’t take so much information in a world where we’re bombarded by bad news and force-fed information. I can just about take in the weather then I’m exhausted. You open a newspaper, everyone’s dead. We’re only supposed to know what our neighbour is up to; if the woman next door to you is having sex with the man next door to her we need to know; but four doors down and it’s none of our business.”
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Viv Hardwick
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