Dan Hoyle's
TINGS DEY HAPPEN


1 last chance!
April 27, 2008
sunday at 2pm

Closing benefit party Sunday, April 27 at 2pm ($50-100 with $200 reserve seats) buy tix here A performance of Dan Hoyle's 'Tings Dey Happen' followed by a champagne and dessert reception. This benefit supports The Marsh in paying for the elevator construction to make the 2nd floor theater fully accessible.

“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.”
–Wilborn Hampton, New York Times

“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.” –Vijay Vaitheeswaran, The Economist

“Entertaining and Eye-Opening...bristles with keen impressions of life and death.”
–Marilyn Stasio, Variety

“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.”
–Robert Hurwitt, San Francisco Chronicle

The San Francisco Chronicle says Hoyle has “a gift for mime and vocal mimicry that recalls solo artists John Leguizamo, Sarah Jones, or Lily Tomlin.”

85 minutes
no intermission

All seating for this performance is first-come, first-served. 

This show is 17 and over.

Please do not bring infants to the show.

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.