Siv Ngesi is back at the Baxter with his hit one man comedy show, Race Card, based on Simon Kilpatrick’s bestselling book The Racist’s Guide To The People Of South Africa.
Race Card garnered rave reviews and a sell out season at the 2013 Grahamstown National Arts Festival and recently at the Baxter Theatre.
Twenty-seven-year-old comedian and actor Sivuyile ‘Siv’ Ngesi,born in the township of Gugulethu, pokes fun at the wacky truths and quirks of the colourful people of South Africa, drawing a similarity to The Racist’s Guide To The People Of South Africa which has been described as a politically incorrect, thoroughly unscientific and exceptionally funny satirical “guidebook” that identifies – and makes light hearted fun of – the people of the Rainbow Nation. It’s written for Foreigners and for all the South Africans it parodies, noting from the start that “Blacks”, “English Whites”, “Afrikaners”, “Coloureds”, “Indians” and “Miscellaneous” are the primary races to be encountered in the land.
The national tour of Race Card starts with the return season at the Baxter Golden Arrow Studio Theatre then moves to Johannesburg, East London, Port Elizabeth and Durban.
WHEN & WHERE: Monday to Saturday at 8pm until 21 September, Baxter Golden Arrow Studio, Rondebosh
TICKETS: R80 via Computicket or at The Baxter Theatre [note PG13]
Co-written by Siv Ngesi and Brent Palmer
Based on the book The Racist’s Guide To The People Of South Africa by Simon Kilpatrick
Directed by Brent Palmer
