num_pages: 126
description: Nairobi is a vibrant, excentric, extreme, and elusive city. The theater project Six and the City is dedicated to contemporary Nairobi. Six authors from Nairobi of very different backgrounds each portray their city in a theater piece. The plays have been newly written for this project; and they get to the heart of what it means to live in Nairobi in the new millennium: Kenyan men and women, faced with life decisions and dating issues, politicians who can’t sing the national anthem, sugar daddies and university students, NGO professionals, prostitutes, thugs, freaks, and a vibrator are some of the protagonists in the six pieces. The premiere of the plays was staged at Pawa254, in front of the skyline of Nairobi.  - Billy Kahora The Committee Excerpted from "Minutes for Hero Production in the 50th Year of Kenya Republic"  - Parselelo Kantai IJGB (I Just Got Black) A short story about Coming Home  - Andia Kisia The 24th Floor  - Tony Mochama Percy's Killer Party  - Kevin Mwachiro Thrashed  - Valentine Njoroge The Modern African Woman
language: English
title: Six and the City: 6 Short Plays on Nairobi
publisher: Goethe-Institut Kenya, Native Intelligence