Writing & Research
Plays, concept notes, and long-form development gathered separately from the homepage for easier reading.
Post-Gothic Perfume
A memoir-poem through fragrance, architecture, and memory.
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A memoir-poem through fragrance, architecture, and memory—written as a sensorial descent through broken mirrors of belonging and becoming.
Available excerpt / proposal on request.
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
Partners & Support
Institutions, collaborators, and funders connected to the work.
Institutional hosts & collaborators
University of the Arts Helsinki (Uniarts Helsinki) · Danish National School of Performing Arts · Folketeatret (Copenhagen) · Karen Blixen Museum Denmark · Icelandic House (Copenhagen) · Caisa — International Cultural Centre (Helsinki) · Intercult (Sweden) · CKI — The Danish Centre for Arts & Interculture . De Kreative Kontor . KU.BE Frederiksberg, ACT Kenya
Funders & diplomatic support
Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs · Danish Ministry of Culture · European Union · Danish Agency for Culture and Palaces · Danish Consulate General in New York · Embassy of Denmark in Kenya · Nordic Culture Fund · Nordic Culture Point (Nordic Council of Ministers) · Royal Swedish Embassy (Denmark) · Royal Norwegian Embassy (Denmark) · Danish Embassy in Helsinki · Svensk-Danska Kulturfonden · Den A.P. Møllerske Støttefond · Tuborgfondet . Arts Council Norway, Consulate of the United Republic of Tanzania in Denmark, Kenya Embassy Stockholm
Contact
Invitations, partnerships, commissions, speaking, workshops.
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