Dates: July 19-August 3, 2013
Venue: Phoenix Theatre
Tickets: Kshs 500
Bookings: 020 222 5506 / 0705 589722 / 0707 305365
Directed by Mumbi Kaigwa.
Cast includes Mkamzee Chao Mwatela, Mo Pearson, Hana Kefela, Cathi Ngugi, Kawira Thambu, Muthoni Hunja, and Mumbi Kaigwa
Musicians: Ricky Matt Githinji, Sam Guchu Ngugi, and Ngare of Yellow Light Machine.
Dates: July 19-21, 2013
Venue: Alliance Francaise Auditorium
Tickets: Kshs 500
Synopsis
The potential for comic mayhem: Take two adjoining hotel suites, add two couples, both on extremely nervous blind dates, contrive that they each somehow meet the wrong partner, and complicate matters with an excitable room waiter whose mission in life is to encourage romance wherever it might spark, and you have the recipe for an evening of chaotic entanglements and unlikely liaisons which constantly teeters on the edge of disaster.
For bookings/Mpesa-0726524124/0728130134 zap: 0734524124 or call 0202025811 fcakenya@gmail.com
Dates: July 12-14, 2013
Venue: Alliance Française Auditorium
Tickets: Kshs 500
Synopsis
A Nairobi based cab driver, literally has two lives, complete with two different homes and two different wives, Mary and Barbara. Somehow, he manages to juggle them both without arousing suspicion.
Sadly, he gets caught up in a mugging, and he wakes up in a hospital. He ends up with Mary instead of with Barbara, whom he should be with at the moment, and he now has to come up will all sorts stories to cover his alter lives from everyone who, upon every deed, seem to suspect his queerness. The hardest part is explaining his ways to both his wives and the police, ALL AT ONCE. This is one story you just have to hear!
Strictly for Adults
Dates: June 28-30, 2013
Venue: Alliance
Tickets: Kshs 500
To book or Buy Tickets call: 0725 040 951
SYNOPSIS
Stan and Fiona are getting rid of their household items as they prepare to move to The US, having just won the green card lottery. In the thick of things Fiona discovers from her friend “Nje-lee” (njeri) that her husband Stan has been keeping a “treasured” household gift that was given to him by his ex-fiancee.
Fiona is angry that Stan did not tell her the truth about his history, But Stan refuses to get rid of the gift and he also refuses to answer Fiona’s endless questions about his past.
In the midst of this Stan accidentally leaves his “History box” open and Fiona with the help of her snooping Nje-lee go on a quest to secretly investigate Stan’s history… however through humorous twists and turns they soon discover that Stan is not the only one who has a “ #Historybox”
Phoenix Players present, Killing Time directed by Gilbert Lukalia.
Dates: Until July 13, 203
Venue: Professional Centre – Parliament Road
Tickets: Ksh. 500
SYNOPSIS
A chance meeting bring Rick and Jane together, and at first their conversation at Rick’s house seems innocent. Gradually the clues to the truth assemble: it is not Rick’s house at all engineered their meeting; he knows all about Jane’s marriage to the violent, unsavoury Michael – and he wants Michael dead, for reasons of his own. surprisingly, Jane is happy to collude with Rick in this plan, but then she isn’t all originally appears to either .By degrees, the two conspirators reveal more and more of their true identities and the crimes and violence that have linked them in the past. The encounter becomes combative; each in turn handcuffed and threatened, each alternates between being predator and prey…Twist after twist leads KILLING TIME, this clever and challenging thriller for a cast of two to a gripping conclusion.
Phoenix Players Present Kidnap Game
Directed by Likarion Wainaina
Dates: Until June 22, 2013
Venue: Phoenix Players, Professional Centre – Parliament Road
Tickets: Kshs 500
SYNOPSIS
Paul Kendon is a highly successful businessman, international arms dealer, and head of a large corporation. His world is turned upside-down, however, when he receives a telephone call from a man claiming to have kidnapped his daughter, Sarah…
Dates: June 14-16, 2013
Venue: Kenya National Theatre
Time: Fri. 6 & 8.30 pm, Sat 3, 6 & 8.30 pm and Sun. 3 & 6 pm
Tickets: Kshs 500
Bookings: 0720 861 236/0733 720 585
Phoenix Players Present Hotel Flolinda. Directed by Nick Njache
Opens on: May 17, 2013
Venue: Phoenix Players, Professional Centre
Runs until: June 1, 2013
Tickets: Kshs 500 & Students Kshs 300
SYNOPSIS
George and Seraphine run a hotel in a small rural town. Seraphine is fed up with the drudgery of her daily life, and feels that George doesn’t appreciate her. George seeks Solace with his mistress, Yvette, but she too is becoming disgruntled, living in a leaky apartment and longing for a comfortable housewife’s existence. Aramis, Georges friend suggests the women swap lives for a while, Seraphine goes to live in Yvette’s apartment and Yvette joins George in the running of the hotel.
Unfortunately for George, Yvette is not quite the homemaker that Seraphine was, soon he is pining for his capable and efficient wife. George’s Aunt Marie turns up and mistakes Yvette for Seraphine ,whom she has never met. Eventually Seraphine returns home and she and Yvette agree that they were both better off where they were. Maybe it’s George who is the real root of their problems. George agrees to go away for a while, but the question remains of who should take his place….
The tutors of the National Youth Orchestra of Kenya have put together a wonderful recital for Saturday 18th May at 4pm at the Kenton College, Gichugu Road, Kileleshwa.
The recital will feature: Karis Crawford on the Violin, James Laight on the Piano, Jenny Moore on the Tuba, Levi Wataka on the Piano and Annalee Whitehead on the Piano.
The concert features music by Bruch, Gershwin, Mozart, Bach, Brahms, Kabelevsky, Rachmaninov and many others.
Charges are Kshs 500/- for Adults and Kshs 200/- for Children/Students.
Come enjoy great music while supporting a fantastic cause.
