TINGS DEY HAPPEN

Written by: Dan Hoyle

1062 Valencia St. San Francisco, (no dates) (schedule)
The Marsh 3/20/2008 - 4/19/2008 (schedule)

Producer: Dan Hoyle

Category: Cabaret · World Premiere

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A riveting adventure story, a geopolitical tour de force about the year he spent in Nigeria on a Fulbright Scholarship, exploring the West African oil frontier, dubbed the new Middle East of American energy security and an extremely dangerous place.
March 20 thru April 19, 2008
thursdays & fridays at 8pm
saturdays at 8:30pm
Tickets Sliding Scale:

Thursday: $15-$35
Friday: $22-35
Saturday: $25-35

Total performances: 15

Cast

Dan Hoyle

.... Actor

*=featured role

Staff

News

TINGS DEY HAPPEN

“Riveting…Funny and Poignant…In the spirit of theatrical journalism exemplified by Anna Deavere Smith, Mr. Hoyle is both a first-rate reporter and actor.”

by Wilborn Hampton
New York Times

TINGS DEY HAPPEN

“Wildly entertaining and the most nuanced and insightful treatment of the complexities of oil politics I have encountered in a decade of covering energy for The Economist.”

by Vijay Vaitheeswaran
The Economist

TINGS DEY HAPPEN

“Entertaining and Eye-Opening...bristles with keen impressions of life and death.”

by Marilyn Stasio
Variety

TINGS DEY HAPPEN

“A smart, engrossing, funny, challenging and moving look at the too-neglected story of Nigeria's bloody oil politics….an aptly complex, hard-hitting piece that paints memorably touching and entertaining figures.”

by Robert Hurwitt
San Francisco Chronicle

Notes: A riveting adventure story, a geopolitical tour de force about the year he spent in Nigeria on a Fulbright Scholarship, exploring the West African oil frontier, dubbed the new Middle East of American energy security and an extremely dangerous place.

His base was Port Harcourt - the same malarial swamp where disease and attacks from jealous warriors once killed the British and where now a second generation of warlords blow up Chevron pipelines to steal the oil and militants kidnap oil workers. Dan traveled alone around the swamps, befriending the militants, warlords, diplomats, activists and prostitutes. Even the U.S. ambassador sought him out to find out what was going on. And, indeed, he contracted malaria.

Dan acts all the characters in his story, except himself. We hear the characters speak to him, just as he heard them - he wants us to experience it as he did, in all its intensity and hilarity. For although its not a comedy, it's often very funny.

References: http://www.themarsh.org/tings_back.html

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