Ever wonder what it’s like to run for politics, come breathtakingly close… and lose?

Comedian Mandy Nolan was the Greens Candidate for Richmond (Northern NSW). And she wants to tell her story.

In her gonzo inspired stand-up show, The Candidate, Mandy Nolan gives the inside story on the agonising decision to run for politics. The impossible struggle to look neat for election photos, the fear of what probity might uncover. The conversations with conspiracists and climate change deniers, and then a mighty flood.

The Candidate is about hope. It’s about what it means to be a woman in the male-dominated world of politics.

This is the story of a stand-up comedian and mother of five who steps into the political arena to push for action.

Mandy believes “Nothing can prepare you for the insane adrenaline sport of campaigning. Not even three decades as a stand-up comic”.

And nothing can prepare you for what it’s like to lose.

It’s all in… The Candidate