The Marsh Presents Dan Hoyles TINGS DEY HAPPEN March 20, 2008

RivetingFunny and PoignantMr. Hoyle is both a first-rate reporter and actor. --Wilborn Hampton, New York Times

Wildly entertaining and the most nuanced and insightful treatment of the complexities of oil politics I have encountered in a decade of covering energy for The Economist. Vijay Vaitheeswaran, The Economist

In celebration of his wildly successful five-month New York run, and in honor of this years Will Glickman Award for Best Play, Dan Hoyles TINGS DEY HAPPEN returns to The Marsh for a limited engagement.

A riveting adventure story, a geopolitical tour de force about the year he spent in Nigeria on a Fulbright Scholarship, exploring the West African oil frontier, dubbed the new Middle East of American energy security and an extremely dangerous place.

His base was Port Harcourt - the same malarial swamp where disease and attacks from jealous warriors once killed the British and where now a second generation of warlords blow up Chevron pipelines to steal the oil and militants kidnap oil workers. Dan traveled alone around the swamps, befriending the militants, warlords, diplomats, activists and prostitutes. Even the U.S. ambassador sought him out to find out what was going on. And, indeed, he contracted malaria.

Dan acts all the characters in his story, except himself. We hear the characters speak to him, just as he heard them - he wants us to experience it as he did, in all its intensity and hilarity. For although its not a comedy, it's often very funny.

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