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Bach to Books presents Street People, a BBC award-winning play, 7 p.m., Saturday, August 8, and 4 p.m., Sunday, August 9, in the auditorium. Free program, no reservations required.
Comical, satirical and thought-provoking, Street People revolves around two street people who make a living by any means necessary. Two naive researchers from an international housing agency are there to explore the need for housing. They refuse a police escort because they feared a police presence might hinder their desires for the truth. The two researchers are robbed of a briefcase containing only worthless paper. The two street people then masquerade as traffic policemen and manage to get some bribes, including one from the wife of the police commissioner.
Produced by MainahwaKaigi, written and directed by Allen resident, Ben Ateku, Street People was on BBC radio in 1992 and won first place in the BBC playwrighting competition in 1995. In 2001, three productions of Street People were featured at the Harvard University Black Arts Film Festival.
Ateku has written two other award-winning plays, The Broadcasting Station and Tom Says He’s Dead. The latter won the best overall, original and English play categories in the 1987 BBC competition and was first place in the Kenya Colleges National Drama Festival in 1987. From 1990 to 1995, he was the Theatre Coordinator for Nairobi Theater Academy.
Ateku is currently writing a film script, The Golden Bags of Kenya, which examines the concept behind the export of empty bags of gold for high yield returns. He is also pursuing a degree in journalism from SMU.
Kevin Holland—Suncreek United Methodist Church, Gary French—library cultural affairs office, Allen Civic Ballet and Empowerment Christian Center provided generous assistance.
For more information, call Tom Keener at 214.509.4911.
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