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Coined from the Yoruba saying “ara m be ti mo fe da” (there are wonders that I want to perform) and the Swahili word "harambee" meaning ‘work together’, ARAMBE productions was founded in 2003 by Nigerian
Performance Artist, Bisi Adigun and officially launched by Irish writer Roddy Doyle in February 2004.
The main aim of the company is to afford members of Ireland’s African communities the unique opportunity to express themselves through the art of theatre.
By recognising the value and empowering nature of drama, it is the aim of Arambe to ensure that Africans that would ordinarily be denied access to, or be isolated from the mainstream art have a means to identify, nurture and showcase their artistic talents.
We strive to achieve this aim by producing classic and contemporary plays in the African tradition and also by reinterpreting relevant plays in the Irish canon.
Past productions include The Gods Are Not To Blame (2004) by Ola Rotimi, Once Upon A Time & Not So Long Ago (2005) created and written by Bisi Adigun in collaboration with the cast, The Kings of The Kilburn High Road (2006&2007), The Dilemma of A Ghost (2007) by Ama Ata Aidoo.
Arambe’s all African cast version of Jimmy Murphy’s The Kings of the Kilburn High Road goes to Notre Dame University for the conference on “Race and Immigration in Ireland” in October 2007
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The Playboy of the
Western World
in a new version by
Bisi Adigun and Roddy Doyle Commissioned by
Arambe Productions
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Directed by Jimmy Fay
Oct 3 - Nov 24 2007
The Abbey Theatre
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“Arambe is a fast-moving, focussed, friendly and flexible organisation.
It has buckets of skill and plenty of ambition.”
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Jenny Haughton, Arts specialist and evaluator; June 2005
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e Abbey Theatre presents:
Through a Film Darkly
by J.C. De Graft
Directed by Bisi Adigun
Venue: Project Arts Centre
Time: 8.15 pm
Date:
1-19 APRIL 2008
Janet Wilson is a young English woman living in a rapidly changing post-independence Ghana with Fenyinka, her Ghanaian husband. Like a duck to water, Janet is settling down nicely as an immigrant in this West African country until the day she crosses paths with John Owusu, a Ghanaian man who has a few bones to pick with white people since an experience he had as a student in Britain.
Through a Film Darkly asks if it is ever possible for an immigrant, white or black, not to be made feel like an 'inside outsider' in a foreign land.
Supported by Project Arts Centre and in association with NCCRI, to mark European Year of Intercultural Dialogue
Performance Dates,
Tickets
and Information
3-19 APRIL ~ Tickets €15 & €13 (conc*)
Previews 1-2 April ~ Tickets €12
Matinees 3.15PM, Wed 9 & 16, Sat 12 & 19 April
Tickets €12 *Concession tickets are available, with valid identification, to Students, Senior Citizens, Equity Members and the Unwaged.
BOOKING: www.project.ie or call (+353 1) 881 9613 / 4 Group discounts available in advance only, ask to speak to Ross or email ross\@project.ie (Mon-Fri during office hours) |
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