The show plays Thursday & Friday @ 8:00 pm and Saturday @ 8:30 pm on The Marsh Main Stage, 1062 Valencia Street @ 22nd Street in San Francisco.
Tickets are $15-35 sliding scale on Thursday; $22-35 sliding scale on Friday and $25-35 sliding scale on Saturday. . To buy tickets call 1-800-838-3006 or visit www.themarsh.org
For more information, visit www.themarsh.org or call 415-826-5750
“Riveting…Funny and Poignant…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
In celebration of his wildly successful five-month New York run, and in honor of this year’s Will Glickman Award for Best Play, Dan Hoyle’s TINGS DEY HAPPEN returns to The Marsh for a limited engagement.
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.
