Two of South Africa’s most respected stand-up comedians take the stage in Jo’burg this week.
? With the general exodus of artists to Grahamstown for the National Arts Festival, Nic Rabinowitz makes a move in the opposite direction, bringing his sixth solo show, You Can’t Be Serious, to Jo’burg. The comedian says: ‘It has been a tough, herculean task of narrowing down the lengthy list of local politicians to laugh at.” The show apparently focuses on ‘Jacob ‘Father of Most of the Nation’ Zuma and Helen ‘The Madam Cockroach’ Zille, as well as on the plight of gays and Libyans. Rabinowitz also asks whether an unenclosed toilet bowl has a ‘white tendency”? Directed by Brent Palmer.
Market Theatre, Newtown, from July 5 to 16. Tel: 011 832 1641.
? Loyiso Gola’s mid-career retrospective is presented as a multimedia comedy journey, spanning the past decade of the award-winning comedian’s oeuvre and the hilarious events that shaped it. It begins: ‘Many years ago, a young man from humble beginnings in Gugulethu came to Johannesburg to pursue a seemingly impossible dream of becoming a comedian —” The show is titled Life & Times and it celebrates the humour of the dude who won the South African Comedy Award for Best Breakthrough Comedy Act and who has garnered nominations for Best Comedian of the Year at the Comics Choice Awards and Comedian of the Year at the Stars of Mzansi Awards.
Teatro at Montecasino, Fourways, on July 1 and 2. Tickets range from R130 to R180. Book at
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