Hotel Harare

By Daaimah Mubashshir
February 12 - 13, 2016

JACK presents an early workshop version of this new play set in the famous Hotel Harare, in the middle of the capital city of Zimbabwe, written by Daaimah Mubashshir, directed by Shariffa Ali and featuring Shyko Ali. Hotel Harare infuses physical theatre and music into a slightly-absurdist narrative in which Minana Maniyaka, the daughter of a wealthy family, suddenly forces the family into new and dangerous territory, putting everything for which they’ve worked at risk.

PERFORMANCES:
February 12 - 13 at 8 pm.

SHYKO AMOS (Chengeto) US Credits Include: Familiar at Yale Rep directed by Rebecca Taichman; Generations at Soho Rep, directed by Leah Gardiner; Brandon Jacob Jenkins' OBIE Award-winning production An Octoroon at Soho Rep; Gin Baby at IRT directed by Daniel Talbot. Cell at EST One Act Marathon directed by Jamie Richards. UK Credits include: Mamma Mia - West End and World Tour; In Time at The Almeida Theatre; The UK Tour of Once on This Island and Anansi for Talawa Theatre Company.
Originally from the UK Shyko Amos has a BA Hons. Politics Degree from Queen Marys University of London an MA in Musical Theatre from The Guilford School of Acting and is a graduate of the 2 year Acting program at William Esper Studies under the tutelage of Bill Esper. She is a proud Artist Member of EST

SHARIFFA ALI (Director) is an Afropolitan theatre maker committed to working internationally at the intersection between performance and humanitarianism. Recent collaborations include MotherStruck! (The Culture Project) Folktales (Invisible Crown Productions), The Odyssey (The Public Theater), Rasheeda Speaking (The New Group), Live from the Surface of the Moon (Stable Cable Lab Co), The Winter’s Tale (The Public Theater), Ubu and the Secrecy Bill (Aardklop Festival, South Africa) Shariffa serves on the organizing committee of Africa’s Out, an initiative founded by artist Wangechi Mutu aimed at providing vital support to the East African LGBT Community. Performance/live art commissions for the Gordon institute Creative and performing arts in South Africa (GIPCA) include Strand (2012), Land (2011) and Chroma (2011). Follow her Instagram @chocolate_tart.

DAAIMAH MUBASHSHIR (Playwright) is a New York City playwright whose work has been seen at Fire This Time Festival, Manhattan Rep. Theatre, The Play Rise Festival and a number of theatres in Chicago. Full Length plays include Rum for Sale, Night of Power and Clay. Other Theatre work includes Associate Curator of the Bushwick Starr Reading Series, Playwright in Residence at The New American Theatre NY, Associate Director: generations (Soho Rep) and Invisible Hand (NYTW). Other current projects include Everyday Afro Play,