Dan Hoyle’s Tings Dey Happen Returns To The Marsh November 5 – 28, 2009 Dan Hoyle’s Tings Dey Happen

Following Us State Department Sponsored Nigerian Tour

November 5 – 28, 2009

Thursday & Friday at 8:00 pm; Saturday at 5:00 pm on The Marsh Mainstage, 1062 Valencia Street in San Francisco.

Tickets: Thursday: $15-35; Friday: $20-35 Saturday:$25-35; Sunday $21-35. All Sliding Scale. Reserved tickets $50. To buy tickets, call 1-800-838-3006 or visit www.themarsh.org.

“A smart, engrossing, funny, challenging and moving look at… Nigeria's bloody oil politics….an aptly complex, hard-hitting piece that paints memorably touching and entertaining figures.” –Robert Hurwitt, SF Chronicle

Following Dan Hoyle’s return from his whirlwind, US State Department sponsored tour of Nigeria, The Marsh is presenting 11 additional performances of TINGS DEY HAPPEN, his Will Glickman Award winning solo show about Nigerian oil politics. Hoyle will conduct post-show talkbacks after each Thursday and Friday night performance, during which he will answer audience questions and share his experiences.

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.

September 10 – 26, 2009

Thursday at 8:00 pm; Saturday at 5:00 pm; Sunday at 7:00 pm on The Marsh Mainstage, 1062 Valencia Street in San Francisco.

Tickets: Thursday”$15-35; Saturday:$22-35; Sunday $21-35. All Sliding Scale. Reserved tickets $50.
To buy tickets, call 1-800-838-3006 or visit www.themarsh.org.

Dan Hoyle has been invited by the US State Department to perform Tings Dey Happen, his award-winning show, in Nigeria.

“A smart, engrossing, funny, challenging and moving look at… Nigeria's bloody oil politics….an aptly complex, hard-hitting piece that paints memorably touching and entertaining figures.” –Robert Hurwitt, SF Chronicle

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.