Date and time: Fri, 11 May 2018, 6 PM
Venue: Goethe-Institut Auditorium
Admission: free
In its second year of merging different artists from across Africa and Germany on one stage, the highly successful Artistic Encounters series kicks off with Kenyan/Eritrean actress Hana Kefela’s adaptation of Sierra Leonean writer Pede Hollist’s novel, So The Path Does Not Die. The performance and discussion will be moderated by James Murua.
Six and the City is a theatre project dedicated to the city we live in: Nairobi. A vibrant, eccentric, extreme city made of different and contradictory worlds. Goehte Institut asked six writers to portray this elusive city in form of a short theatre piece. All plays are staged for a theatre evening in front of Nairobi’s skyline, on PAWA254’s terrace.
Dates: September 13-15, 2013
Venue: PAWA 254, Africa Alliance of YMCA Building, State House Crescent
Time: 6 pm
Tickets: KShs 500
Six and the City was originally developed by Stephan Bruckmeier and Petra Weimer for the television tower Stuttgart. Together with Bruckmeier, Goethe Institut enhanced the idea for Nairobi and have commissioned six writers with the six pieces: Billy Kahora, Parseleo Kantai, Andia Kisia, Tony Mochama, Kevin Mwachiro, and Valentine Njoroge.
The dating issues of a modern Kenyan woman, politicians who can’t sing the national anthem, sugardaddys and university girls, the true story of a beggar, mistaken gender identities, several thugs, freaks, and a vibrator are just some ingredients of this unconventional theatre evening.
Coordinated by Hope Theatre Nairobi, in cooperation with Mwajuma Bahati, it stages Pauline Akinyi, Terry Awiti, Dansoye Denge, Mwajuma Bahati, Constant Hore, Hana Kefela, Joe Kinyua, David Nawieri, Marrianne Nungo, and Telley Savalas Otieno.
The directors are Hawa Essuman, Anthony Ndungu and Carol Odongo.
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.
