Heartstrings Kenya opens 2013 with unapologetically smashing curtain raiser resolutions unbroken in Kenya.
Dates: January 15-27, 2013
Venue: Alliance Francaise Auditorium
Time: Weekdays 6.30 pm and weekends at 3 & 6.30 pm
Tickets: Kshs 500
Hotline: 0721 608 656
A humorous look at the reason why Kenyan’s don’t keep their new year’s resolutions is because they break them even before they have made them
Dates: January 4-6, 2013
Venue: Alliance Francaise
Time: Friday 4th 3pm, Saturday 5th 3pm and 6pm or Sunday 6th 3pm and 6pm January 2013
Tickets: Kshs 500
Synopsis
The play is set in Kiambu County in the plush environs of Windsor, Falstaff makes his love and desires know not to one but two married women in identical letters. Upon comparison Mrs. Ford and Mrs. Page plot their revenge on Falstaff for being so bold and assuming. The revenge plan unveils itself with almost catastrophic but hilarious consequences. The strength of some relationships with doubts creeping and some grow ever so stronger as the inhabitants of this small town watch and are a part of the unfolding comical events that surround Falstaff amorous adventures.
The cast, we believe, represents the best of East African talent features the gigantic talent from Tanzania, Mrisho Mpoto as Falstaff as well as Ogutu Muraya, Neville Misati, Mourad Sadat, Eric Wanyama, Veronica Waceke, Sylvia Namussassi and Kitt Nyan’aya Kiarie.
Wanawake wa Heri wa Windsor
The production was well received at the Globe to Globe Shakespeare festival in London England in April 2012 and received 5 stars from the Guardian Newspaper. Dubbed “Visually intoxicating” and “slapstick…..tinged with genius” by Andrew Gilchrist of The Guardian it is a must see for any theatre lover and enthusiast.
In November 2012 , the production has a successful tour of 3 cities in India it featured at Qadir Ali Baig Theatre Festival in Hyderabad , Ranga Shankara Shakespeare Festival in Banagalore and the United World College (UWC) in Pune.
“a seamless performance providing hilarity non-stop.” Margaretta wa Gacheru, Daily Nation
Back from a successful International Tour of India, The Theatre Company will present Wanawake wa Heri wa Winsa – A Swahili translation of Shakespeare’s Merry Wives of Windsor at the Nairobi National Museum Amphitheatre on the 15th and 16th of December 2012 at 4pm and 7 pm daily. Tickets for the show cost Ksh 500/-.
Synopsis :
The play is set in Kiambu County in the plush environs of Windsor, Falstaff makes his love and desires known not to one but two married women in identical letters. Upon comparison Mrs. Ford and Mrs. Page plot their revenge on Falstaff for being so bold and assuming. The revenge plan unveils itself with almost catastrophic but hilarious consequences. The strength of some relationships with doubts creeping and some grow ever so stronger as the inhabitants of this small town watch and are a part of the unfolding comical events that surround Falstaff amorous adventures.
Festival Dates: December 9 -16, 2012
Events Line Up: Public Lectures, Writers in conversation, Readings, Performances, Art Exhibitions, Film Screenings
Venues: various venues – Kifaru Gardens, Kwani? Garden, National Museum, University of Nairobi, Goethe Institut, Kuona Trust, Habesha, Kibera, KICC Helipad, Eastleigh, South B [map below]
Update: All the events scheduled to take place at University of Nairobi have been moved to the National Museum
Entry to most of the events is Free
Download litfest_programme
Focus: Stories of the Horn of Africa with participating Countries – Somalia, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Egypt, Ghana, Nigeria, Sudan & Kenya
Some of the writers confirmed for the festival are: Hadraawi – Somalia, Warsan Shire – Somalia, Sayadin Hersi – Somalia, Awes Osman – Somalia, Said Juma Hussein – Somalia, Chehem Watta – Djibouti, Meaza Worku – Ethiopia, Jamal Mahjoub – Sudan, Alemseged Tesfai – Eritrea, Nawal El Saadawi – Egypt, Kojo Laing – Ghana, Helon Habila – Nigeria, Deqa Abshir – Somalia/Kenya, Fawaz El Said – Sudan, Yassir Ali – Sudan, Altayeb Daw Elbeit – Sudan, Ermais Ekube – Ethiopia
A Snap Shot of the Programme
Date: December 9, 2012
Venue: Kifaru Gardens
Time: 2-10 pm
Music by: Waayaha Cusub and Kato& Band
DJ Set by: DJ Zelalem
Entry: Free
Date: December 10, 2012
Venue: Goethe-Institut Nairobi, Monrovia Street
Time: 2.30 – 8 pm
Entry: Free
Date: December 11, 2012
Venue: University of Nairobi National Museum
Time: 2– 7 pm
Entry: Free
Date: December 12, 2012
Venue: Louis Leakey Auditorium, National Museum
Time: 2.30-8 pm
Entry: Free
Date: December 13, 2012
Venues: Hotel Intercontinental, Taifa Hall (University of Nairobi) & Louis Leakey Auditorium, National Museum
Time: 2.30– 7.30 pm
Entry: Free
Date: December 14, 2012
Venues: Louis Leakey Auditorium (National Museum) & Kuona Trust
Free Entry
Date: December 15, 2012
Venues: Louis Leakey Auditorium (National Museum) & KICC Helipad
Entry: Free (National Museum)
Entry: Ksh 1,000 (KICC Helipad)
About
The Kwani? Literary Festival is organised by Kwani Trust on a biennial basis where the literary leaders of Kenya, enriched with visiting writers from around the world, turn their attention to one salient subject and explore it through the lenses of the continent’s past, present and emerging literatures. In 2012, the Litfest will focus on several geopolitical trends and shifts in Kenya’s immediate north to host literary conversations with the Horn of Africa.
It thus aims to act as a platform where the story of the Horn of Africa can be told, to an extent, not taking the political crisis narrative as the only story that exists.
Additionally, the pan-African exchange programme of Goethe-Institut Moving Africa will bring a further eight African writers to Nairobi.
For the exact programme please visit the 2012 Kwani? Litfest website: http://litfest.kwani.org
More information on Moving Africa: http://www.blog.goethe.de/moving-africa/
Date: December 12-13 2012
Venue: National Theatre
Time: Dec. 12 @ 3 & 6 pm and Dec. 13 @ 6 pm
Tickets: Kshs 400 advance & Gate Kshs 500
A dramatization of the pain and trauma of Kenya’s 2007/2008 Post-election Violence; written by Julisa Rowe and directed by Paul Mumo.
Dates: December 7 & 9, 2012
Venue: Nairobi Baptist Church – Ngong Rd
Time: 6-8 pm
Tickets: Kshs 300
The First Ever Kamba Play At Kenya National Theatre: Ndukatavye Mundu! (Don’t Tell Anyone!)
Directed By: Victor Ber and Conceptualized by Dan ‘Churchill’ Ndambuki
Opening Gala: November 30, 2012
Venue: Kenya National Theatre
Time: 7 pm
Tickets: Kshs 2,500 – Hotline: 0726 109 109
Dates:December 1-2, 2012.
Venue: Kenya National Theatre Main Auditorium
Time: 3 pm & Evening 6:30 pm [1,000 stalls 1,500 balcony]
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Opening of the Slum Theatre Festival: Friday, 23rd November 2012
Venue: Goethe-Institut Auditorium
Time: 6 pm
Entrance: Free
Slum Theatre Festival: Saturday, 24th November 2012
Venue: Kenya National Theatre
Time: 11.00 am to 6.00 pm
Entrance: Free
TANDAWAZI 2012 Festival of Dance, Music & Martial Arts is on at Pride Inn Hotel on Saturday 1st, December 2012.
This is Kenya’s most Unique Showcase of Movement Art & Music.
Get your name on the guest list by calling Brian on 0721 986 873 or Geeta on 0722 713 299
www.tandawazi.co.ke
