It’s been a year, right? If you, like me, could really do with some belly laughs to slide into 2026 on the right foot, look no further than Alan Committie’s brand-new show, which goes curtains-up at Theatre on the Bay in December.
Alan Committie – who shared his Cape Town favourites on Local Intel – is blasting into the festive season with A-VA-LAUGH-TA, his 28th solo show, at Theatre on the Bay. True to form, audiences can expect a high-energy stand-up special designed to banish the blues with interstellar wordplay, physical comedy, and Committie’s trademark take-downs of the crowd, as this award-winning comic tries to make sense of a year where everything feels a bit… alien.
Directed by longtime collaborator Christopher Weare, A-VA-LAUGH-TA riffs on the humorous side of everyday absurdities in 2025.
"To celebrate the third in the series of Avatar movies, ‘Fire and Ash’, which is how people describe my cooking style, I’ve called my latest show A-VA-LAUGH-TA,” Committie told Time Out Cape Town. “I’m covering all kinds of topics, including the need to prevent turning blue and looking after mental health. I also share a do-it-yourself opera guide and reflect on the silliness of book clubs. I take a look at weddings and funerals, and then I finish the show with a recreation of James Cameron’s other big hit, ‘Titanic’, in which I play everyone... including the iceberg. It’s a lucky packet of madness!”
It's guaranteed to be a belly-laugh of the very best kind, delivered in the cosy setting of the Theatre on the Bay.
A-VA-LAUGH-TA: Need to know
- Where: Theatre on the Bay, Camps Bay, Cape Town
- Dates: 17 December 2025 – 7 February 2026
- Show times: Mostly 8pm. New Year’s Eve show at 9pm with countdown
- Tickets: From R200 - R350. ; New Year’s Eve show R320 - R420
- Booking: Now open via Webtickets.
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