Tings Dey Happen at the Culture Project-SoHo

The Culture Project presents Tings Dey Happen, written and performed by Dan Hoyle, directed by Charlie Varon, opening at the Culture Project-SoHo on 7 Aug 2007, following previews from 26 Jul and running through to 23 Sep 2007.

Tings Dey Happen: Dan Hoyle portrays warlords, militants, oil workers, prostitutes and the American Ambassador to Nigeria, among many others. Already supplying 10% of American oil, Nigeria and its surrounding Gulf of Guinea region have been targeted as the 'new Middle East' of oil security. However, militants in the oil-producing Niger Delta are blowing up pipelines, warlords are threatening rebellion and oil company employees are being kidnapped with alarming frequency.

Tings Dey Happen premiered in Dec 2006 at The Marsh performance space in San Francisco and ended its run on 24 Jun 2007.

Nigerian musician Bab� Ken Okulolo said of the show "As a Nigerian, I was deeply touched by Tings Dey Happen. It made me laugh out loud and it made me cry inside. Dan tells it like it is, in the language of my people, even speaking the real, deep-down pidgin English! He shows the proud and fun-loving hearts of Nigerians and exposes the suffering of the Niger Delta under the regime of oil producers and their government accomplices. This show should be seen by one and all, and especially by my fellow Africans."