Moustache Brothers Mandalay

If Yangon is Burma's New York City, then Mandalay would be its Chicago. Smaller, cooler, less humid, and generally more pleasant than Yangon, the nation's second city (and former capital) fills in the cultural voids that abound in it's counterpart to the south …

... sisters and wives. They excel at a traditional Burmese kind of theater that combines comedy, dance, history, and music, and the Moustache Brothers in particular are legendary. Par Par Lay was thrown in jail for 7 years after making a subtle political ...

... , Rob, and we ended up travelling together for the next week or so. We started off with a trip in Mandalay to see the nightly performance by the Moustache Brothers, a group of 2 brothers and a friend who are the most famous comedians in the country. This ...

... freeing Lady E she got a right good grip of me. Anyway it was dark by the time we got back. We opted to miss the Moustache brothers (a political comedy, which has to be done in their own home and only in English for tourists, I don’t know how this ...

... we were heading with a quizzical look on our faces. "Yangon" they said, we headed back to Mandalay, it's closer. Ali and I visited to "World Famous" Moustache brothers in the evening. Two out of the three of these comedians spent seven years in a hard ...

... was rather demeaning.  We wondered if that type of humiliation was part of the deal for him to get out of jail.  After the show, Sonia got a Moustache Brothers T-shirt (which is important for tomorrow's entry) and we headed back to the hotel. ...

... gain and helped protect prople where foreigners ventured. This was particularly true in the case of the Moustache Brothers, a comic troupe in Mandalay.  This brave group of actors perform nightly shows for tourists involving some light political ...

... what the Moustache Brothers show was like other than it was living up to our opinion about Myanmar…bizarre.  To put it simply, the Moustache Brothers are comedians who have gone to jail for telling jokes about their corrupt government.  ...

... we did, I never had the chance to finish this entry, I was so busy writing new ones! Anyway, if you are in Mandalay, go see the Moustache Brothers. If you don't know who they are, look them up. Their story, and the story of the people of Myanmar in ...

... standing next to each other. Moustache Brothers "If you haven't been to the Moustache Brothers you havent been to Mandalay". A Moustache Brothers show is not just a glimpse of a traditional show; it's about artists brave enough to continue their ...

... with me anyways for fear of offending.  I told her I just wasn't that hungry... From dinner, I went to see the Moustache Brothers.  They are a performance troupe of three brothers who put on shows every night.  The kicker is, the show is ...