Too Early For Birds - Tom Mboya Rerun

In August 2024, we staged five theatre shows featuring stories from the life, times and untimely death of one of Kenya's most remarkable sons: Thomas Joseph Odhiambo Mboya, Tom Mboya to most, TJ to those close to him. The reception, reviews and love have been positively overwhelming. 

That was followed by ceaseless requests of a rerun from people who didn’t get to watch it but also from people who would like to watch it again and bring a friend. We have heard you and have also introduced an extra show so more of you can get to watch the story of Tom Mboya one more time. So join us for the ride one more time in November.

5th July 2024 marked 55 years since Tom Mboya’s assassination. One of Kenya’s most mind-boggling mysteries can be distilled into one question: who killed Tom Mboya? And why? Okay, those are two questions. Both necessary. As one of the country’s most illustrious luminaries, Tom Mboya was a rare phenomenon. He embodied a new generation of young, brilliant, tireless Africans who were hell-bent on making the best out of freshly independent African nations. We grew up with this enigma hanging over our heads. Yet 55 years since two assassin bullets ended his life, no one has filled his shoes. Now that we are in a position to do so, we would like to dig deeper and learn who this fast-rising star was. 

How did a boy from the labourer quarters of a colonial settler farm come to be friends with Kwame Nkrumah, Julius Nyerere, Martin Luther King, John F Kennedy… before he was 30 years old?! We’d love to know what the effects of his initiatives, such as the airlifts that bequeathed us the likes of Wangari Maathai, Barack Obama and Philip Ochieng, really were. We are exploring stories from Tom Mboya’s life… and death. The juicy, the astounding, the jarring, the tantalizing stories; and we would love to share those stories on stage with you. 

*The show has explicit/violent content. We recommend it for 16+ folks. *