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Kariuki's Notebook
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Feb 22, 2001
Closed Mar 11, 2001

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http://www.lamama.org

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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?

Rick Gray's new play Kariuki's Notebook is a highly physical comedy with music, set in Kenya, and performed by an African and African American cast. The play is a "Shepardesque" surrealist work about the power of language and how it can bind people of different cultures with humorous misunderstandings. Sonoko Kawahara directs.

THEATER/VENUE INFORMATION:



La MaMa E.T.C.
74 E 4th St
New York, NY 10003


WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?


As a struggling young actor in the midst of an early-life crisis, Rick Gray did what anyone would do: He joined the Peace Corps. Okay, so maybe that's not what your anyone might do. But Gray wasn't your average guy; he was a man obsessed. As those who saw his excellent one man show The Impossible Safari learned last year, it was frustration, burnout, and his preoccupation with a Biblical verse that led him to Kenya, where he had adventures that are the stuff of movies and came out with at least some of the insight that he had been searching for.

In his new show, a surrealist play called Kariuki's Notebook, Gray has focused his attention on his work as an English teacher with the Peace Co[...]


Reviewed by Brooke Pierce on Mar 5, 2001

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