(This review appeared in The EastAfrican 18th-24th June 2012 under the title Make me a stiff drink, this play is insipid, shallow) Last weekend at Phoenix, curtains fell on yet another original Kenyan play about a politician. Smoke by Lui Nzomo, premiered at Phoenix Theatre on 25th May, directed by George Mungai and I managed…
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A Varied Repertoire at Phoenix
(This review appeared in The EastAfrican 30th January-5th February 2012 under the title Women’s Mid-life Crises, Sex and Marriage at Phoenix) It has been a very varied repertoire at Phoenix Theatre in the month of January with the fun and frolics of the comic opera Pirates of Nairobi Dam, sunshine and laughter in the comedy…
Pirates of Nairobi Dam
A Cheerful End to Nairobi’s Musical Theatre Season (This review appeared in The EastAfrican 23-29 January 2012 under the title “Pirates” Steals Theatregoers Hearts”) A little while after Pirates of Penzance premiered at the Fifth Avenue Theatre in New York City on 31 December 1879, Arthur Sullivan(1842–1900), who composed the music, wrote in a letter…
The House of Bernada Alba
(This review appeared in The EastAfrican October 31-November 6, 2011) Bernada Alba’s husband has died and Bernada has imposed an eight-year period of mourning on her household. This is the setting of the last play written by the Spanish dramatist Frederico García Lorca (1898-1936) just two months before his death, which I watched at Phoenix…
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