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Sashi Perera

took place · 8 Sep 2026

Comedy Club Haug, Rotterdam

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Sashi Perera — Comedy Club Haug, Rotterdam
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Sashi's surname - Perera - means pear tree in Portuguese. How that name became so common in Sri Lanka is better left untold to Portugal.

Pear Tree is a stand-up show about mishaps between Sri Lanka and Australia: family, love, home, knives, children and cats, sprinkled with a touch of geopolitics and song. Like in her previous show Boundaries (now on YouTube), Sashi takes absolutely nothing seriously here.

Sashi Perera is a Sri Lankan-Australian comedian, writer and former lawyer. After working with refugee organisations worldwide, she moved to Melbourne for her master's degree and accidentally stumbled into comedy. In 2023 she was nominated for Best Newcomer at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Since then she has performed sold-out shows in six countries, opened for Hannah Gadsby and appeared in television programmes such as Channel 10's Have You Been Paying Attention and ABC's Guy Montgomery's Guy Mont Spelling Bee. Her memoir Standstill was published in August 2025 by Penguin Random House.