Plays by Michael Omoke
Original dramatic works by Michael Omoke available for staging.
Plays by Michael Omoke
Plays available for staging. Rights & enquiries: artisticdirector@thespians.dk
Sitting On Me
Premiere: 2001 — Nairobi Baptist Church, Nairobi (Kenya).
Later: 2002 — Kenya National Theatre, Nairobi — Mavuno Festival.
A political satire set in Nairobi at the turn of the millennium. A young man makes a private bargain for power—and returns years later as a polished public figure on the edge of national leadership. But the higher he rises, the more he “sits on” everyone beneath him: staff, allies, truth, and finally his own home. As religion, patronage, and intimidation become tools of control, the cost lands where it always lands first—inside the family—until a public ambition becomes a private catastrophe.
Rights & enquiries: artisticdirector@thespians.dk
Miss Julie’s Happy Valley
World premiere: 25 Aug 2021 — Folketeatret, Copenhagen (Denmark).
Also staged: Finland (in collaboration with Uniarts Helsinki).
August Strindberg’s Miss Julie reimagined through Kenya’s “Happy Valley”—the colonial settler enclave around Lake Naivasha. Over one night, Julie and Jean negotiate desire, class, and power inside a world built on land and labour, where intimacy becomes a weapon and escape is an illusion.
Rights & enquiries: artisticdirector@thespians.dk