Get your prescription of laughter Riaad Moosa’s Life Begins

DOES life really begin at 40? Riaad Moosa tries to figure this out with his hilarious one-man show, Life Begins – a snapshot into his life as a 40-year-old in Durban on 10, 11 and 12 November at 8pm at The Playhouse Theatre.

Following sold-out shows from Johannesburg to Cape Town and in between, the father of three kids, husband, comedian and actor comes to Durban to put a different spin on being 40 while hoping his next 40 years will be lived with renewed vigour and excitement.

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As an award-winning comedian, actor, writer and presenter, Moosa is one of South Africa’s most popular and acclaimed funny men and he happens to be a qualified medical doctor too. Known as the “Comedy Doctor”, he certainly seems to have the remedy for the nation’s ills – a healthy dose of laughter, straight up – and hold the aspirin!

“Even though I am now 40, in many ways, I feel like I’m still crawling and I’m looking back at my journey from being an aspirational doctor, coming from a relatively conservative Muslim background, where both my parents were doctors, and how I actually journeyed to becoming a stand-up comedian.

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“The show is very philosophical and existential and with all the current cultural and political issues thrown in. It involves the normal issues of getting older while at the same time experiencing, at a maturity where I’m supposed to be wise, a world that is completely turned on its head – with Trump, with Brexit; In South Africa, the ‘State Capture’, ‘Fees Must Fall’, ‘DOOM’. And it’s about how I negotiate all these things happening around me while trying to maintain a positive attitude,” Moosa said

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