Good conversation

It's Johannesburg, South Africa, 1974. A teacher asks a class of 12-year-olds to turn to the person next to them and tell them a story. Paul Browde and Murray Nossel turn to each other. These days, they barely stop talking to each other.

Two Men Talking is a live, unscripted storytelling performance, where Nossel and Browde weave together their life stories to create a tale of two men with similar backgrounds and separate paths. They met as youngsters, and they come together later in life to create a friendship based on their experiences as children and as adults.

Browde and Nossel take the audience along with them, allowing them to experience their lives as they are relived through words. They talk about personal identity and acceptance. They share their pain, suffering and the good times in hopes that audiences are inspired to tell their own stories and accept their own lives.

Two Men Talking, Wednesday, February 5, through Saturday, February 8, at 8 p.m.; $10-$30; at the Mondavi Center, 9399 Old Davis Road in Davis; (866) 754-2787; www.narativ.com.