The Marsh San Francisco Extends Dan Hoyle's TINGS DEY HAPPEN From 11/5-28

The Marsh San Francisco extends Dan Hoyle's Tings Dey Happen from November 5-28, 2009. There will be no show on November 26.

Performance times are as follows:
Thursdays at 8pm
Fridays at 8pm
Saturdays at 5pm

The show runs 85 minutes with no intermission. All seating for this performance is first-come, first-served.

Tings Dey Happen is for adults aged 17 or older. Infants are not allowed to attend performances.

Dan returns from his whirlwind five-city tour in Nigeria sponsored by the U.S. State Department. With post-show talkbacks Thursday and Friday nights, Dan will answer audience questions and share what it was like to perform in Nigeria. Who knows, maybe an epilogue will emerge? Catch the 10 show encore presentation before Dan prepares to open his new solo show The Real Americans at The Marsh in January 2010.

Dan Hoyle is taking Tings Dey Happen, his award-winning solo play about Nigerian oil politics, on a whirlwind tour of Nigeria sponsored by the U.S. State Department. The show, based on Hoyle's year in Nigeria studying oil politics on a Fulbright Scholarship, will travel to five cities in two weeks this October as part of the State Department's public diplomacy focus on anti-corruption issues.

To help Hoyle prepare for perhaps his most important audience yet, The Marsh will present a short nine-show revival of Tings Dey Happen during the last three weekends in September.

Developed with and directed by solo performance master Charlie Varon Tings Dey Happen is a riveting adventure story, a geopolitical tour de force about the year Hoyle spent exploring the West African oil frontier. The Niger Delta has been targeted as the “new Middle East” of oil security and is an extremely dangerous place. Hoyle traveled alone around the swamps, befriending militants, warlords, diplomats, activists and prostitutes. Even the U.S. ambassador sought him out to find out what was going on. In this time of rising energy politics, and as witnessed by the State Department’s invitation, the show remains, if anything, even more relevant than when it premiered in 2007.

Photo by Lyra Harris

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