Theatre & Performances: Why Not Stay For Breakfast? Mar. 23-Apr. 7 2012 @ Phoenix Players
Phoenix Players present a comedy by Cooney / G Stone and directed by Likarion Wainaina
Opening Date: Friday, March 23 2012
Dates: March 24-April 7, 2012
Venue: Phoenix Players, Professional Centre
Tickets: Ksh. 650 [Student nights Every Thursday. Buy 1 ticket @ Ksh. 400 and get 1 Free]
SYNOPSIS
A 45 year old civil servant lives a reclusive, quiet life-everything planned to a ‘T’. The tranquil ambience is shattered by the sudden arrival of a complete stranger- a teenage girl who is pregnant and apparently ‘homeless’.
The generational gap is quite a challenge as he attempts to understand this wayward, hype teenager.
Play: A Blue Heart; Joy’s Story, Mar 24 2012 @ Kenya National Theatre
Fern Poetry and the Africa Sanaelimu art Ensemble in collaboration with Consolation East Africa have come together under the Kenya Blue Heart Grassroots Initiative (KBHGI) and developed a play titled ‘A Blue Heart; Joy’s story’, to create awareness on human trafficking. The play is about Joy, a young girl who goes to live with her aunt after her parent’s unfortunate demise, giving birth to a gripping saga. A Blue Heart; Joy’s story brings together narration, poetry, music and dance. Bernard Muhia from Fern Poetry has written the poems in the play while Mike Kasongo from Africa Sanaelimu Art Ensemble has choreographed the dances and the music. The music is from traditional African drums beaten to a perfect rhythm to reflect the various moods of the play.This play has already been featured on the United Nations (UN) website http://www.ungift.org/knowledgehub/stories/february2012/blue-heart-campaign-inspiring-artists-in-kenya.html.
Charges are Kshs. 200 for high school students with a school ID and Kshs. 500 for adults. For tickets kindly call Noella on 0751198280 or El Poet/Akil on 0700393931. 5% of proceeds from this play will go to the Kenya Red Cross and another 5% will go towards creating more awareness in informal schools.
Facebook Event Page: https://www.facebook.com/events/330143027022068/
Twitter: @ABlueHeart_Joy – hashtag: #BlueHeartKe.
For more info: http://www.bernardmuhia.com and http://sanalimu.org
Theatre: My Wonderful Day, Mar. 2-17 2012 @ Phoenix Players
Phoenix Players Present
My Wonderful Day by Alan Ayckbourn and directed by George Mungai
Opening Date: March 2, 2012
Dates: March 3-17, 2012
Venue: Phoenix Players, Professional Centre
Tickets: Ksh. 650.
Student nights Every Thursday. Buy 1 ticket @ Ksh. 400 and get 1 Free.
SYNOPSIS
Winnie is nearly nine. Her mum, Laverne, is second- generation Afro – Caribbean and heavily pregnant but continues with her cleaning job since her husband left while she dreams of moving the family back to Martinique. Tuesdays are special:
Laverne insists that Winnie speaks only French ( in preparations for Martinique) and today is Tuesday – not her usual day to clean at the north London house of Kevin Tate, an affluent, bad tempered, philandering, minor television personality.
Not well enough to go to school,Winnie accompanies her mum and settles down to her homework; an essay entitled “MY WONDERFUL DAY”.
Throughout the course of the next two hours, the shy, astute and ever watchful Winnie will amass plenty of material for her essay as a variety of adults parade before her: Kevin’s baby-talking and patronizing mistress, his vengeful wife, and the hangover family friend who pours out his heart believing that Winnie does not speak English. But as events reach a frenzied climax, Winnie’s essay will speak volumes.
Comedy: Wrath of a Woman Scorned, Mar 10-11 2012 @ National Theatre
The Festival of Creative Arts
brings you the riotous comedy “WRATH OF A WOMAN SCORNED”!!
“A secret threatens to tear apart a family as interfering neighbours
create humorous misunderstandings and chaos. Will the comic chaos
settle down long enough for the truth to emerge in this delightfully
funny comedy?”
Showing at the Kenya National Theatre on Saturday 10th March at 3, 6
and 8pm and on Sunday 11th March at 3 and 6pm. Tickets are available
for only 500 bob at Assanand Music Shop on Moi Avenue next to Jazz
Bar, Kenya National Theatre and Alliance Francaise. Call 0726-524-124,
0728-130-134, 0734524124 or 020-202-58-11 WRATH OF A WOMAN SCORNED!!
A Festival of Creative Arts production directed by Mbeki Mwalimu,
starring Derrick Amunga, Juma Williams, Martin Githinji, Nice
Githinji, Jackie Mungai, Veronica Waceke, Produced by Abuto Eliud
Performance: The Vagina Monologues, Mar. 7 2012 @ Alliance
Date: March 7, 2012
Venue: Alliance Française Auditorium
Time: 6.30pm
Tickets: Kshs 100/-
The Vagina Monologues have been put together by Naomi Mwaura, Sonnia Gitome, Lillian Itenya and Doris Angalo, with a cast of ten young actresses.
The award-winning play is based on V-Day Founder/playwright Eve Ensler’s interviews with more than 200 women. With humor and grace the piece celebrates women’s sexuality and strength.
The V-Monologues campaign is scheduled to tour various Kenyan universities in a bid to empower and emancipate Kenyan women.
Theatre: Talking Heads, Feb. 22-26 2012 @ Alliance
Talking heads by Alan Bennett, presented by the Arts Canvas
Dates: February 22-26, 2012
Venue: Alliance
Tickets: Adults Kshs 700 and Students Kshs 300
An evening of comedy, personal struggle, human fragility and search for meaning of life. These intimate and contrasting plays were first performed in Kenya in 1999. In Her big Chance, Lesley is a budding actress, reveals of all the uncertainties and excitements of showbiz and her search for the ‘big break’. The second Bed among Lentils examines life of Susan, the wife of a church minister who is living a double life.
This play is directed and performed by Mumbi Kaigwa
Play: [Oscar Wilde’s] A Woman of No Importance, Feb. 17-19 2012 @ Alliance
Strathmore Drama Society presents Oscar Wilde’s A Woman of No Importance (Abridged Version)
Date: Feb. 17-19, 2012
Venue: Alliance
Location: Loita/Montovia Street
Time: Friday 6pm and weekend 3 & 6pm
Tickets: Kshs 300 Advance & Kshs 400 at the Gate
Twenty two years ago, young George Kwalya was in love with the young, naive and beautiful Rachel and as it were they both fall victims of circumstances they did not anticipate. They had a son, Gerald out of wedlock a completely unacceptable thing in their society and as it… were George was not ready to let go of his ambitions in life to be a father and he fled.
The puritan Rachel took sole responsibility of Gerald in her humble surroundings with rebuke from society but taught Gerald the pure and best ways of society.
In a dramatic twist of events, Gerald has got a promising job offer from Amb. Kwalya that is his hope of offering her mother a better future and secure himself the love of his life Hellen, the puritan American girl. Will Gerald take the job from “his role” model who he wishes was his “father” against his mother’s persuasion not to follow the ‘man of no importance’?