About Us

"You are the music
While the music lasts." - TS Eliot - 4 Quartets

Workshops and Courses

The Theatre Company provides workshops and courses for children and performers in various drama techniques including acting, voice work, public speaking, improvisation, storytelling, dance and movement, music and drumming, acrobatics and clowning, the use of masks and puppets, writing and singing. The Theatre Company also designs workshops for individuals and groups with specific needs. Please click here to see the past performances and workshops. Rogers Otieno, The Theatre Company's Associate Director is the workshops co-ordinator.

Events

As well as performance, The Theatre Company will plan and coordinate events. One such was organised for FEMNET's Governing Assembly and Programming Conference. Using fabrics from all over the continent and sculptures by women from a gallery in Nairobi, we provided an evening of colour and sound for participants from all over Africa, with drumming, performance poetry and readings by women playwrights and performers.

We also organised and coordinated the entertainment for the Women's AIDS Run in September 2003 and performed rehearsed readings at the launches of Rebeka Njau's second novel The Sacred Seed and the first edition of Kwani? - Kenya's new literary journal.

The Theatre Company also organised the first V-Day Campaign in Kenya in 2003, raising close to USDollars 10,000. This is now an annual event in Kenya. In 2005, The Theatre Company assisted Akina Mama wa Afrika (AMwA), a Kampala-based NGO, to bring V-Day to Uganda. Unfortunately, this production was banned by the Uganda Government just days before it was due to open.

Projects

Specialized workshops in all aspects of drama for performers, teachers and students are available from both The Theatre Company.

Numerous workshops have been held at the Museum, in schools, theatres, and at Karichota, our training centre in Naro Moru.

Among the schools that have taken advantage of our services are: Peponi House School, Peponi School, Kestrel Manor School, Oshwal Jain Special Needs School, Aga Khan Junior Academy, Acorn Special Tutors, St. Austin's Junior Academy, Karen Community Centre for Learning (KCCL), Nairobi Academy Kindergarten, Visa Oshwal Girls Secondary School, Braeburn School Nairobi, Braeburn Mombasa International School, St Andrew's School Turi, Greensteads International School, Brookhouse School and Premier Academy.

Our areas of expertise are writing, acting, stagecraft, adult and children's theatre, dance, acrobatics, and more.