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Speaker 1: This is Breakfast with Bongani on seven two.

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Speaker 2: Little you're looking for powerful, thought provoking theater, look no further.

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Speaker 2: Momo stepping out of character and this time into her

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Speaker 2: own story. I'm Momo and I have issues. She's here

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Speaker 2: to tell us all about it. Pleasure to have you

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Speaker 2: on the show.

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Speaker 1: Good morning, good morning, Thank you so much for having me.

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Speaker 2: This is raw, funny but uncomfortable self examination, is.

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Speaker 1: It not, Yes, it is, but it's necessary in order

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Speaker 1: for not just me to reflect on where I am,

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Speaker 1: the country I live in, and how everything that happens

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Speaker 1: continues to influence you socio politically or economically. But it's

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Speaker 1: also an opportunity for the audience to also come and

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Speaker 1: see their issues in me and leave understanding that we

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Speaker 1: have a lot of work to do. As the civilians

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Speaker 1: of this concert.

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Speaker 2: Listen without being that Nami friend, I'm writing. I'm writing

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Speaker 2: an autobiography. And one of the first things as you

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Speaker 2: share things, you think, gosh, what are people going to say?

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Speaker 2: How did you overcome that?

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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, I almost did not publish. So I've

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Speaker 1: just recently published this book called Played by More Moments

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Speaker 1: Nani Volume one, and it consists of three of my works,

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Speaker 1: namely Penny and Learn and and I was freaking out

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Speaker 1: because I'm just like it was going to be scrutinizing

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Speaker 1: my writing. What I'm no, you know, Shakespeare. I'm just

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Speaker 1: more moments nanny with a whole bunch of stories to share.

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Speaker 1: But really, at the end of the day, what matters

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Speaker 1: most is that the stories exist and that they're out there,

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Speaker 1: and more importantly, that they're accessible.

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Speaker 2: It's a go easy, go easy on me. Listen. It's

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Speaker 2: such a South African thing to use humor to talk

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Speaker 2: about heavy issues, right, Yes, and that's what you do

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Speaker 2: in terms of being able to bring up topics like

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Speaker 2: mental health and trauma.

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Speaker 1: Sure, look, I think it's a dicey space. I think

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Speaker 1: the trauma of post Abatgate has kind of allowed us

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Speaker 1: into a comato's humorous state, right, and so as a

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Speaker 1: way of coaching, which is constantly making jokes, which to

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Speaker 1: a certain degree has also just made us a lot

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Speaker 1: more complacent and with less agency as a society. However,

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Speaker 1: I use humor. So I also studied comedy in university.

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Speaker 1: In third year, we had an opportunity to choose improvisation

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Speaker 1: of comedy, and I chose comedy because even as I

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Speaker 1: was growing up, there was something about comedy that made

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Speaker 1: people look so vulnerable, and I saw how audiences were

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Speaker 1: able to let their guards down and participate, but not

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Speaker 1: in a way that they feel judged. And so this

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Speaker 1: I mean, I like to describe comedy and tragedy as siblings.

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Speaker 1: You know, one can't exist without the other. And so

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Speaker 1: sometimes in order to really deal with the serious stuff,

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Speaker 1: you allow the audience to relax, make them think this

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Speaker 1: is going to be a party, and then you oo,

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Speaker 1: is a real issue.

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Speaker 2: I suppose you want your audiences certainly to be challenged,

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Speaker 2: maybe even entertained, but dare I say even healed.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, because that's why we make art, right. We make

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Speaker 1: art so we can reflect the time. There's a saying

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Speaker 1: that if you want to know about a society, look

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Speaker 1: to the art of the time, and so it's important

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Speaker 1: that we don't just create this to point fingers. We're

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Speaker 1: also implicating ourselves in the state of our nation, but

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Speaker 1: at the same time saying, how can we do something

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Speaker 1: about it and move forward? Yes, it's funny, but at

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Speaker 1: the same time, there's a truth that sits in the audience.

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Speaker 1: Someone described the work as like bold, and just when

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Speaker 1: you think you're laughing, there's an echo of a gasp.

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Speaker 1: But it's also in aid of the healing that desperately

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Speaker 1: needs to happen.

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Speaker 2: It's called I Am More More and I Have Issues.

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Speaker 2: You can catch us from the twenty sixth to the

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Speaker 2: twenty eighth of March, so that's this weekend and starting

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Speaker 2: at seven pm at the Joebig Theater and you can

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Speaker 2: get your tickets for a lowly one hundred and eighty

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Speaker 2: RM for entertainment, challenge and healing. Good luck, have a fun,

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Speaker 2: have a fun show this weekend and break a leg

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Speaker 2: as they say, hey, thank you so much.

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Speaker 1: I will definitely break all the leaks.

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Speaker 2: Fantastic stuff. I'm Mormo and I Have Issues. Don't miss it.

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