Comedian, actor and author, Russell Brand recently announced his first ever world stand-up tour that includes South Africa with two shows at the Teatro at Montecasino on 16 and 17 November 2013 and one show in Cape Town on 19th November 2013 at the Artscape Opera House. The South African leg of Brand’s world tour is presented by Showtime Management and 94.7 Highveld Stereo in association with Phil McIntyre Entertainment. Tickets now on sale.
Keeping in line with Brand’s comedic style, the tour, officially named “Messiah Complex,” will be a dissection of various social and religious figures and the reality of their lives through comparisons of each other. Messiah Complex is a mental disorder where you think you might be the messiah. Did Jesus have it? What about Che Guevara, Gandhi, Malcolm X and Hitler? All these men have shaped our lives and influenced the way we think. Their images are used to represent ideas that often do not relate to them at all. Would Gandhi be into apple? Would Che Guevara endorse Madonna? Would Jesus be into Christianity? All great people are flawed, all of us, flawed people are capable of greatness and for every identifiable icon there is an anonymous mob of unrecognized bods doing all the admin and heavy lifting. This show looks at the importance of heroes in this age of atheistic disposability. Plus there’s sex. Obviously.
Brand states, “I am going to tour The World (our one, Earth) with Messiah Complex, causing bother and excitement and offering opinions that have not been either solicited or thought through.
Of course I’ll be in English speaking countries (UK, Ireland, US, Canada) but also Scandinavia, Russia, Israel, Palestine; anywhere that will have me to be honest and that are relaxed about free speech. As well as theaters I will be appearing in prisons, drug rehabs, social network HQs, universities, nationalist organisations, Mosques, foreclosed houses, protest sites, Synagogues and in people’s private homes. I dedicate this Messiah Complex tour to the four men that are it’s subject, Che Guevara, Gandhi, Malcolm X and Jesus- I know this is what they would have wanted. If this is the end of the world I’m going to go out laughing with an erection.”
Book now at Computicket service centers, visit www.computicket.com or call 0861 8139000. Cape Town bookings are also available at Artscape Dial-A-Seat on 021 421 7695. To experience one of the great-value Montecasino Show & Stay packages to enjoy choice hospitality packages, call 011 367 4250, or email montecasino.reservations@tsogosun.com, for more info visit www.montecasino.co.za
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