PRESS RELEASE - AFRICA TOUR 2014

Coming To Zimbabwe

ATTIC STUDIOS
5429 W. Washington Blvd., Los Angeles, CA. 90018 U.S.A.
+1 424-209-2284 – [email protected]

January 16th 2014, Los Angeles, CA (USA) PRESS RELEASE

COMING TO ZIM – American One Man Show touring South-Eastern Africa.

Los Angeles, CA. In 2012, theater director James Carey left his hometown Los Angeles and traveled to Zimbabwe in southern Africa to work with school children and teach drama classes. Nothing in his life prepared him for this life-changing adventure that working and traveling in Africa presented. James Carey wrote his overwhelming and adventurous experiences down, and adapted it for the stage as a One Man Show. A touching and heart-warming true story of one man’s journey of self-discovery and renewal as working with school children in Zimbabwe led to the questioning we all must experience at some point in our lives, and that help guide us to new opportunities and perspectives.

In spring 2013, he returned to Africa, and debuted with his show at the Harare International Festival of Arts. The show was such a great success that the running got extended after the festival, playing for a delighted audience at the ‘Reps Theatre’ in Harare, Zimbabwe. Now, in February 2014, James Carey is once again returning to Africa to do a short tour with his show in South-Eastern Africa – that includes Zimbabwe, Malawi and South Africa. And he will also be teaching drama workshops at all these places. Working together with the National Institute of Allied Arts in Zimbabwe, the American theater director will travel in Zimbabwe for two weeks as part of the NIAA Teacher Training Outreach Program.

Afterwards, “Coming to Zim” will play again at the ‘Reps Theater’ in Harare. In Malawi, he will be on stage at the ‘Madsoc Theater’ in Lilongwe, and in Cape Town his show stages at the ‘Theatre Arts Admin Collective’. James Carey is the Producing Artistic Director of the ATTIC Theatre in Los Angeles, California (USA), which he has run since 1990. He is filmmaker, and worked as a University professor, teaching drama. He has directed and produced over 300 plays and short films. His collaboration with NIAA began in 2012 in Harare, Zimbabwe.

For more information about James Careay, please visit: www.jamesrcarey.com

Tour Dates: Harare, Zimbabwe – Feb. 14, 15, 16: Reps Theatre, Belgravia Shopping Centre, Harare, Zimbabwe. +263-77-135-7204, +263-4-308-159

Lilongwe, Malawi – Dates TBA: Masdoc Theatre, Karim Cresent Area 2 Lilongwe, +265 996 727 383 Cape Town, South Africa – Feb. 25, 26, 27, 28 (8pm):

Theatre Arts Admin Collective, Cnr. Milton Road and Wesley Street, Observatory. For bookings: 021 447 3683 / [email protected]

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