Performance: Saanifu, Feb. 22 2013 @ Goethe Institut
Date: Friday, February 22 2013
Venue: Goethe-Institut Auditorium
Time: 8 pm
Entrance fee: Kshs 300
SAANIFU is a performance that combines dance, music and poetry, focusing on the subject ‘you’. ‘You’ in this sense refers to the audience as subject and concept of the performance. SAANIFU explores the space between the performer and the audience and tries to open a conversation with the audience, its expectations, thoughts, fears, and disappointments. Through contemporary dance, spoken word, and live percussion the relevance of the space that a performer occupies versus the space that a sitting, standing or moving audience occupies shall be questioned.
SAANIFU is a work in progress and will be presented as such. The title of the performance was created by the performers themselves; it is derived from sanaa meaning ‘the arts’ and sanifu which means ‘refined’.
The performers are Isaack Anyanga on percussion and vocals, Evans Nganga on spoken word and dance, and Adam Chienjo on dance choreography and direction.
Comedy: Toc Toc – A Play in French, Feb. 20-22 2013 @ Alliance
A play in French by Laurent Baffie presented by la Troupe de Théâtre Amateur Francophone
Dates: February 20-22, 2013
Venue: Alliance Française Auditorium
Time: at 7.30pm
Tickets: Kshs 900 Available at the ‘Jardin de Paris’ restaurant (Alliance Française ground floor) or Book your ticket: sms 0738-657-680 or 0722-716-059
E-mail contact: theatre.nairobi@gmail.com
Shows followed by a cocktail
Play: Meetings, Feb. 15 – Mar. 2 2013 @ Phoenix Players – the Professional Centre
Phoenix Players, The Professional Centre presents a new and original play by one of our most illustrious and extraordinary alumni, actor and writer John Sibi-Okumu.
This new exciting play starts next week Friday 15th February and runs till 2nd March. George Mungai directs an amazing cast of Phoenix Players in bringing this production to life.
SYNOPSIS
Faoulata, under the guise of interviewing her grandmother for a book on the families of political dissenters is, in fact, searching for her own roots. She already knows that the father whom she has never seen since she was a little girl went into exile and formed a union abroad with a woman other than her own mother. There is expectation in the air: Her father Augustus, ‘Gus’ to all, is returning to be in Kenya in time to witness momentous elections. Some excitement and tension are also foreseeable; Some sensitive encounters will be in order. Over a series of ‘Meetings’ what will be resolved, and what will not…
Play: Poison Ivy, Feb. 8-10, 2013 @ Alliance Francaise
Wholesome Entertainment is excited to be having their first play early in the year. A dramatic and captivating play, dubbed POISON IVY.
Dates: Friday 8th Feb, Sat 9th Feb, Sun 10th Feb
VENUE: Alliance Francaise
TIME: Friday 8th Feb 6:30 p.m., Sat 9th Feb 3pm, Sat 9th Feb 6pm, Sun 10th Feb 3pm, Sun 10th Feb 6pm
Tickets: Kshs 500/= [Available at Alliance Francaise]
To book/buy your tickets call 0725 040 951
Synopsis
They call her Cute Ivy… Pretty Ivy … Sweet Ivy … However Her Brothers wife calls Her …
POISON IVY. This is the story of a young married couple who’s bond is quickly tested by the intrusion of a sister.
From the creators of “Corporate Wife,” “History Box” and “Deputy Husband” Wholesome entertainment presents: POISON IVY
Written by: Seth Busolo
Directed by: Pauline Komu &
Produced by: Daisy Busolo, and Samuel Kyama
Phoenix Players Presents: In the Eye of a Stranger, until Feb 9 2013 @ Professional Centre
“In the eyes of a stranger” runs until 9th feb 2013. Tickets only Ksh. 500. Students Ksh. 200.
Sold Out: 6pm show on 9th Feb
SYNOPSIS
The enigmatic center of the play is Pinon, a hermit who 18 years ago locked himself away in his seaside house after possibly cutting his wife into small pieces and permanently scarring the face of Gratia, a local prostitute. Now he sits at the edge of the sea cliff, observing the would-be suicides who come to this lonely spot.
They include Sebastian, a nervous young man with a heart condition who has just been jilted, and Daniel, who is suffering from questions over his sexuality and abandonment by his parents when he was a child. The third visitor is Vera, a runaway bride who comes to see Pinon out of curiosity after hearing his story from a hotel porter.
Bauer explores variations on his title theme. Sebastian asks Pinon to move into the light so he can see his eyes. Vera wonders to an unseen companion how she must appear in their eyes. The porter begs Vera to let him watch her change her clothes. Along the way Bauer weaves the characters’ lives together, in “La Ronde” fashion, shaping ever-changing onstage and offstage duets. In this complex intertwining, Pinon lives in a house he won from the porter in a card game; the porter relates Pinon’s history to Vera; Sebastian wants Vera; Daniel wants Sebastian; Pinon wants to be Daniel’s substitute father figure.
Festival on Elections and Leadership, Jan. 28 – Feb. 1 2013 @ Alliance
KESHO IME FIKA
A Citizen’s Festival on elections and leadership presented by Alliance Française in partnership with INFORM Action, The XYZ Show, Picha Mtaani & Dan ‘Chizi’ Aceda
Dates: January 28 to February 1, 2013
Time: Daily at 7pm
Entrance: Free
This multidisciplinary festival will tackle issues of unity and diversity, corruption and impunity, land issues and reform, governance and leadership with critical eyes and voices, through the mediums of editorial cartoons, XYZ puppets, ‘Kenya Burning’ photographs, music and performing arts, documentaries and public service announcements.
Cartoons by leading Kenyan cartoonists and ‘Kenya Burning’ photographs by Boniface Mwangi will graphically illustrate the path that must be avoided.
A series of short documentaries by ‘INFORM Action’ that specializes in film and community discussions, led by Maina Kiai, former Chairman of the Kenya National Human Rights Commission and UN Special Rapporteur on the Freedom of Assembly and of Association, will engage Kenyans on the persistent need to demand political and social accountability.
Skits and voice talents from the XYZ show together with musicians and comedians including Dan ‘Chizi’ Aceda, Winyo and Larry Asego will use their artistic expressions to emphasize the essence of the festival.
Theatre & Performances: The Jury, Jan. 18-26 2013 @ Phoenix Theatre – Parliament Road
The US embassy and George Mungai Presents:
The Jury adapted from ‘Twelve Angry Men’ written by Regina Rose. Directed by Nick Njache and produced by George Mungai
Dates: January 18-26, 2013
Venue: Phoenix Theatre – Parliament Road
Tickets: Kshs 500 [online tickets at ticketsasa.com]
Time: Wed-Thur. at 7 pm, Fri. at 7.30 pm and Sat. at 3 & 6 pm