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Tings Dey Happen
Dan Hoyle brings his critically acclaimed production straight from San Francisco to Culture Project after a sold out extended run. ‘Tings Dey Happen’ is an extraordinary one-man show about Nigerian oil politics - based on Dan's experience in the Niger Delta as a Fulbright scholar.
Synopsis
Media-savvy warlords, pacifist militants, Africanized Texas oilmen, and prostitutes turned anti-Chevron activists confront the audience with their stories of survival on the West African Oil Frontier.
Already supplying 10% of American oil, Nigeria and its surrounding Gulf of Guinea region has been targeted as the "new Middle East" of oil security.
However, militants in the oil-producing Niger Delta are blowing up pipelines, warlords are threatening rebellion, and oil company employees are being kidnapped with alarming frequency...
Tings Dey Happen comes to Culture Project after successful runs in San Francisco and at Stanford Universit
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT TINGS DEY HAPPEN...
"Funny and poignant... Riveting."
-- The New York Times
"Extraordinary and uncompromising."
-- NYTheatre.com
"Dan Hoyle, in the tradition of Whoopi or Pryor or Leguizamo, jumps racial and physical boundaries to cross-culturally morph into dozens of sad and funny characters; creating a personal and very insightful view of a world we'd never see otherwise."
-- Robin Williams
"Dan Hoyle, equally talented as researcher and impersonator, gives us utterly convincing portraits of the Nigerians and Westerners caught up in the brutal oil fields of the Niger River Delta. This is important journalism and brilliant theater."-- George Packer, Writer, The New Yorker
"Tings Dey Happen is a virtuosic piece of performing in which you very soon stop thinking about virtuosity; you just go to Nigeria."-- Bill Irwin, TONY award winning Performance Artist
"Dan Hoyle is one of the next vanguard solo performers in the U.S. He is an awe-inspiring powerhouse. His Tings Dey Happen is a completely unexpected tour-de-force about an issue that is all but ignored in the world."
-- Danny Hoch, Writer, Performer, Founder, Hip Hop Theater Festival
"Hoyle has a gift for mime and vocal mimicry that recalls solo artists John Leguizamo, Sarah Jones, or Lily Tomlin."
-- The San Francisco Chronicle
"Tings Dey Happen made me laugh out loud and cry inside. Dan tells it like it is, in the language of my people."
-- Baba Ken Okulolo, Artistic Director, African Music Source
PICS FROM 9/29 SHOW AND PANEL DISCUSSION
BY OYIZA ADABA
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