Play: Out of Business, Oct 29-30 2011 @ National Theatre

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Out of Business by Bitter Pill Productions is at Kenya National Theatre on 29 and 30 Oct at 3pm and 6pm. Charges are Sh. 350 advance, Sh. 400 at the gate.

Mel, a well paid executive of a fancy company in Nairobi, has been married for ten years but his relatives believe that his wife hangs around him because of his money. His wife works so hard to prove her in-laws wrong but the more she tries to win their love the more they dislike her.

Mel gets the axe as the company starts to trim the payroll. His wife takes a job to tide them over, and then she too is sacked. As if this weren’t enough, Mel is fighting a losing battle with the environs of life. Polluted air is killing everything that grows on his terrace, the apartment is burgled, his psychiatrist dies with his money and finally he has a nervous breakdown. The couple has the courage and endurance to survive but only time will tell if they’ll pull through.

Theatre/Drama: The House of Bernarda Alba, Oct. 14-29 2011 @ Phoenix Theatres Professional Centre

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Phoenix Players and The Embassy Of Spain Present:
The House Of Bernarda Alba
A Drama Of Women by Federico Garcia Lorca and directed By Millicent Ogutu

Opening: Friday, October 14 2011
Venue: Phoenix Theatres, Professional Centre
Tickets: Kshs 500

Dates: October 15- 29, 2011
Venue: Phoenix Theatres, Professional Centre
Tickets: Kshs 500 Student nights Every Thursday. Buy 1 ticket @ Ksh. 300 and get 1 Free. Only those with school ID’S are eligible for the offer.
Online booking: http://mpesaticketing.com/
Contacts: Telephone: +254 20 221 2661 or 222 5506 Cellphone: +254 729 913 425, Email: info@phoenixtheatre.co.ke and Web: www.phoenixtheatre.co.ke

NB: 28TH IS SOLD OUT

SYNOPSIS
After the death of her second husband, Bernarda Alba, a dominating woman, imposes a period of mourning on her household to last all of eight years! This has, apparently, been tradition in her family. Bernarda exerts an almost fanatically protective will over her daughters. She is preoccupied with ideas of honour and custom, in particular relating to the role of women in society, and is too proud to see the truth about her own five daughters aged between 21 and 40, whom she has shielded and controlled to an excessive degree and prohibited from any form of contact or relationship with all things male! The mourning period further isolates the daughters from the world around them, and tension mounts within the household.
Passion, anger, sibling rivalry and extreme jealousy haunts the characters in The House of Bernarda Alba…

For more info: Nick creations

Play: Minister karibu, Oct. 28-30, 2011 @ Michael Joseph Center

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Phoenix Players present Minister karibu by John Sibi-Okumu.

Opening Date: October 28, 2011
Venue: The Michael Joseph Center
Time: 7pm
Tickets: Kshs 1000
Online Booking: http://mpesaticketing.com/

Dates: October 29-30, 2011
October 29, 2011 @ 7:00pm [Kshs 1.000/-] October 30, 2011 @ 4:00pm [Adults Kes 800/- Children Under 14 Kes 400/-]

Contacts: Telephone: +254 20 221 2661 or 222 5506 Cell phone: +254 729 913 425, Email: info@phoenixtheatre.co.ke and Web: www.phoenixtheatre.co.ke

SYNOPSIS
In the run-up to the next general elections, the Opposition Parties’ Conference is the talk of the country. It is horse-trading time- and a motley collection of incumbent legislators, each with their own agenda- are bent on cobbling together a semblance of unity to secure their seats- and of course the hefty perks!
Key to this conference is Winston Churchill Matumbato- so called ‘Kingmaker’- who is supposedly a venerable political animal.

The meeting is being held at the Walevis’ Authentic African Hotelunder management of the proprietor- Mama Toto. The proceedings are followed keenly by her general factotum- Solo. The press are attracted to the conference like moths to a candle. The local press is represented by Pitbul Nteria, and the international angle is covered by Don Brother. However, it transpires that everything is not as it seems to everybody. This production sees the return to the Phoenix Stage of Ng’ang’a Kirumburu and Mwangi, and features David Opondoe [Propose Me!], Yriimo Mwaura [Duets], Bruce Makau [Romeo & Juliet] and Kevin Amwoma [Smile Orange], among others- including some fresh talent

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Out of Town/Play: Home is where Your Clothes Are, Sept. 29-Oct 1 2011 @ The Little Theatre Club Mombasa

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Dates: September 29-October 1, 2011
Venue: The Little Theatre Club, Mombasa
Time: 6.30pm
Tickets: Kshs 350 advance and Kshs 450 at the gate
For Reservation Contact: 0715435820/0739590989/0726012747/0711459900

Synopsis
This is a farce by Antony Marriot and Bob Grant that will leave you in Stitches.

The play features among Other Blue Njeri, Muscat Moreno, Ashik Yusuf, Nolly wilson Raye, James Gathitu, Mary Muturi, Mercy wanja, Ruth Jahenda and Hilary Namanje.

The play has been Directed by Hillary Namanje.

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Play: No Dinner for Sinners, Sept. 30-Oct. 2 2011 @ Alliance

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Dates: September 30-October 2, 2011
Venue: Alliance
Time: Weekdays 6.30pm and Weekends 3 & 6.30pm
Tickets: Adults Kshs 500, Students Kshs 400 and Advance Kshs 400 online tickets
Contacts: 0726 524 124, 0728 130 134 or 0734 524 124

Synopsis
A string of hilarious mis-communications unravel as Jim trades lies and wives almost as quickly as Bill is trading shares.

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Theatre: Wanjiku’s Dilemma, Sept. 23-Oct. 8 2011 @ Professional Centre

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Phoenix Players present Wanjiku’s Dilemma (Opening this Friday) by Oby Obyerodhyambo another Kenyan original .
Oby is certainly not a stranger to the Kenyan Theatre scene, and this is his second play to be presented on the Phoenix Stage.

Opening: September 23, 2011
Time: 7pm
Venue: Professional Centre (The Phoenix Players)

Dates: September 24-October 8, 2011
Time: Wednesday-Friday 7pm, Saturday 3rd & 17th 7pm and Sunday 4th & 11th 3 & 6pm
Tickets: Kshs 500 (Student nights Every Thursday. Buy 1 ticket @ Ksh. 300 and get 1 Free. Only those with school ID’S are eligible for the offer)

SYNOPSIS
Two young lawyers- TUNU and RICKO are running their own practice. TUNU has a habit of picking Pauper’s Briefs- especially those of the ‘down-trodden’ and uses her mother ALICE- a retired legal brain- as a bouncing wall for her cases. She picks up one such case- of a woman who has killed her husband and his lover in what appears, on the surface, as a fit of anger. Questions start to fly- with public opinion at variance with the suspect’s defense lawyers, the case starts to split the staff in the office as well. Tunu is convinced WANJIKU did no wrong. The Police have a very different view. So does her own mother and legal partner. This drama plays on the social attitudes, societal expectations of what a marriage should be. The conflicts – past and present – that re-wire our opinions and either clear or cloud our judgements.

The play is directed by GEORGE MUNGAI. WANJIKU’S DILEMMA is part of the on-going program to produce original Kenyan works by Phoenix Theatre, and we welcome this second script by Oby Obyerodhiambo, following THE STRIPED LEOPARD which was produced at Phoenix in 2002.