(Dalin
Oliver)
One of Cape Town's favourite comedians,
Dalin Oliver, is set to hit Durban in October with his much anticipated one man
show, Face For Radio.
Written and performed by Oliver, Face For Radio is directed by SA Comedy
favourite, Stuart Taylor. The show stages at Durban's Seabrooke's Theatre from
October 6 to 7 at 20h00.
The 28-year-old comedian from Retreat in
The Mother City is a rising star and has managed to capture audiences with his
clean-cut energetic brand of comedy. Career highlights include opening for
industry stalwarts like Stuart Taylor, Riaad Moosa, Barry Hilton and Nik
Rabinowitz as well as being one of the featured acts on the series: Comedy Central Presents.
His debut one-man show, I Came, I Taught, I Left - where he also teamed up with Stuart
Taylor as his director - has been a huge success since its debut with return
runs taking place at the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown in 2014 until
2016, where he performed to full houses and received rave reviews. As a result,
his final run of the show in 2016 was billed as one of the top 30 grossing
productions at the Fringe Festival in Grahamstown. He also made his big screen
debut where he played one of the lead roles in the SA action comedy Finders Keepers that released in cinemas
nationwide in August.
Face
For Radio sees Oliver confessing about his struggles
to adapt to the concept of "adulting" - 10 years after matriculating.
No one "warned him about it", he says. “My Life Orientation teacher
at school forgot to tell me that I’d have to pay tax, parallel-park in
on-common traffic and that data would be this expensive.”
Oliver shares that the new comedy show will
see a different and more mature side to the comedian’s dose of comedy –
something which his audiences haven't experienced yet in 2016.
“One day while playing PokemonGo, I
realised it was time to grow up. (Actually, my mom told me that if I don’t get
off my phone and clean my room, I’ll never find a girlfriend.) This was the
wake-up call I needed to get my act together,” he admits. “Since my last show
on stage, my friendships and relationships have changed. My friends are getting
married and going to Builders Express on weekends while I'm figuring out that
Tinder is not that beneficial when you are staying at home with your parents.”
Earlier in May this year, Oliver and fellow
comedian Carl Weber landed the first-ever comedy-themed radio show on popular
Cape Town radio station Good Hope FM. To compliment this, he was one of the
featured acts at this year’s Jive Cape Town Funny Festival.
Face
For Radio has performances on October 6 and 7 at
10h00 at Seabrooke’s Theatre, Durban High School. Duration is 80 minutes. Age
Restriction: 13. Booking is through Computicket.com
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