Vir Das in comedy ‘Battle Of DaSexes’
The show opens with Comic, TV and Film Actor Kavi Shastri performing a 15 minute act on the evolution of men and women from single cell organisms to early homo-sapiens.
ACCLAIMED stand-up comedian-turned-big-screen actor and Bollywood Star, Vir Das, brings the international smash-hit comedy, Battle of DaSexes, to South Africa for a weekend run at the Playhouse on Saturday, 4 and Sunday, 5 June.
Vir Das, who is equally comfortable working on TV, film, theatre and live-comedy, said “Battle of DaSexes is an insightful, fun and laugh-out-loud comedy-drama all about the eternal battle between men and women. It is a battle not with arms and gun powder but with bellies and eyeliner.” Battle of DaSexes is written, directed and performed by Vir Das and produced by global theatre production house AGP World.
The stand-up format comedy has been performed regularly in India to ovations and rave reviews. With tongues firmly placed in a multitude of cheeks, the show pits the women in the audience against the men. “This act chronicles the differences between men and women from a scientific point of view. It begins with the sexes’ approach towards language,
goes onto analysing their bodies and spots the differences between their vanities. Then it progresses into literature, music, movies and covers leadership, politics, business, crime, sex and commitment. The show is laced with scientific facts,” he explained.
“Did you know that women read up to nine books a year while men only read five? Or have you ever heard of something called mirror neurons in our brain which enable us to
enjoy fiction and that women have 25 per cent more of these mirror neurons than men — which is why more women are fiction readers and more men are non-fiction
readers?” he quoted.
The show opens with comic, TV and film actor Kavi Shastri performing a 15-minute act on the evolution of men and women from single cell organisms to early homo-sapiens.
The show has an age restriction of 14 and runs for 2 hours and 15 minutes. Tickets are available from www.computicket.com and range from R 185 to R 485 At the Playhouse Opera Theatre on Saturday, 4 June at 8pm and again on Sunday, 5 June at 3pm.
