MASS HYSTERIA at Grand West Arena

When government ministers shuffle faster than a deck of cards at a swingers party, judges are redeployed as car guards and convicted criminals lead Justice towards the boudoir using the secrecy bill as a condom, the only way to describe the general mood in SA’s halls of power is…MASS HYSTERIA.

From the chaotic ruins of SA politics rises a new hope. The countries finest comedy performers stand up and take the reins. If comedy had a government, this would be it: De Vries, Lindi, Rasdien, Missing, Schoonraad, Vlismas and Modikoane join forces to take South Africa just where it needs to be: on the road To bwahaha. This is a stand-up comedy show like no other – all headliners, one stage, and no prisoners.

“This is the will of the people,” says Minister of Offence, John Vlismas. “They are tired of being told about service delivery, so we are going out to the people and doing material delivery. Our government is working overtime to write comedy, the least we can do is share it out amongst the people.”

The following ministers will join Vlismas at Grandwest in Cape Town on 16 and 17 August 2013: Casper De Vries: the Minister of Science Fiction, Internet and Miniseries; Mpho Modikoane: the Minister of Youth; Joey Rasdien: the Minister of Religion and Evolution; Ndumiso Lindi: the Roosta In Chief; Chester Missing: the Minister Of Nik Naks, Guilty Whites and Latex; and Kurt Schoonrad: the Minister of Gatsbys, Gaps and Gangs.

Each minister will address the nation in accordance with their mandate, and with all protocol observed. Screamingly funny and seamlessly staged, this show has a bigger budget than lunch at Nkandla, with more full chairs than Parliament and less jokes than Dina Pule’s defence team.