hatice: [speaking in arabic] shakir al-sharif: [speaking in arabic] samantha: at the kingdom's first dom yet. you can't say whatever you want to say on stage, or can you? shakir: yeah, we can't. samantha: you can't? shakir: yeah, we can't. we can't go to the red lines. look, even if you go to it, people won't be comfortable, you get me? even if one day the government says, "it's okay to talk about this and that. okay, go talk about sex, religion, whatever." if you speak about it, people won't feel comfortable. so i'd rather--me as a comedian, career-wise, i'll stay away from that. shakir: this is the audience, now, you're all mixed. samantha: this theatre is another vision 2030 idea: bringing some "fun" to the kingdom. but when shakir started, he faced a massive conservative backlash. shakir: the most fearful thing, after death, is being on stage. shakir: they started, you know, correcting me, like, "you shouldn't talk about your mother, you shouldn't talk about your father. you should stop doing this, you look ugly." you know, you know, "the bullying." shakir: [speaking in arabic] sa