WE ARE BACK!!!
By popular demand, Mboya is making yet another Rerun!
We are so excited to stage this amazing timeless piece of Kenyan history again.
6 shows this time!
If you had reserved your ticket, buy it here before the scramble for tickets starts:
Hello there
@AzziadNasenya
,
We think you are all kinds of brilliant.
We're also huge fans of your work. Especially how you wove your acting skills into a Kenyan song.
So, if you will be available, it'd be an honour to have you on
#TEFBeats
after the Rona. 🙏🏽
#IStandWithAzziad
A BIG THANK YOU!!!
To everyone who bought a ticket, spread the word, and came to see the show 🙌🏼.
We do this because of you ❤️.
Receive our deepest gratitude 🫂💐
And see you on the RE-RUN!!! 🤭🤭
(Yes, I said what I said!!)
Because we kept being asked "What is Two Early Birds?" Here's a handy manual to understanding the space-age tech that is Too Early For Birds
#TEFBisBack
I’m gutted no end that I missed
@tooearly4birds
. Grateful to have caught it in 2019 though I wanted to watch it again and again and again.
Had a great weekend though.
Scene One:
2001.
Close to 7:00 PM.
A lift hurtles up to the 19th floor of Lonrho house, Standard Street, Nairobi.
Inside the confined space are three dudes.
One is tall, like, really tall, and skinny.
Lanky is the word.
The one beside him is short and visibly shy.
Hey everyone,
You all know that we recently did a show on Mboya.
Some of you attended, some couldn't, but all asked for a re-run.
We'd like to know the numbers so that we plan for it.
So, if you'd like to attend the re-run, please fill in this form:
To everybody who's attended our shows this weekend, we just want to thank you so much. It's been an amazing run, selling out all shows 🥹.
For those who didn't manage to attend, msijali. Tutawasort tu ✋🏻.
Otherwise, it's all love from us, and see you all next time ❤️.
We've beat around this bush for a while. It gets boring.
So, it is time to open the bag and let the cat out. Consequently spilling the beans. What kind of psychopath puts a cat and beans in the same bag?!
Anyway:
#TOOEARLYFORBIRDS
IS BACK!
With the Beats Edition:
#TEFBeats
.
WE WON!!!
- Best Production
- Best Play in English
- Best Production on Women’s Rights & Gender Based Violence
A loud SHOUT OUT to everyone who voted, everyone who has believed in us, everyone who has worked with us and all of you who buy tickets to every
#TooEarlyForBirds
!♥️
Sawa let's agree on this 😂:
If we're doing a re-run (which we are doing), we'll just deal with the logistics, and then each and every one of you does the marketing for us 😂.
Tell a friend to tell a friend to tell a friend to tell a friend to tell a friend...
History time! 😁
In the early 1900s, political representation in colonial Kenya was restricted to British settlers & the Asians. Africans weren't considered, and even when they were, it was a white Christian missionary, John Arthur, who was appointed (Devonshire White Paper).
The Kenyan population is called WANJIKU because of this woman
When Harry Thuku was arrested in 1922, Wanjiku led a group of women to the central police station to demand for his release
The white man called Jomo Kenyatta and paid him to control the chaos, the women refused to
Hey fam!!!
You were awesome enough to ask and we listened.
Reruns of
#TooEarlyForBirds
#TomMboya
Edition:
Saturday November 9th
Visa Oshwal Community Center
2:00PM & 7:00PM
Tickets:
@ everyone who needs to be there and RT widely!
You asked us to return. And not only did you show up, you brought your family, friends, exes, clandes…
You showed up in record shattering numbers. We feel the love & support to the deepest reaches of our souls. All we can say is thank you.
You make
#TooEarlyForBirds
worth it.
Hey folks!
We are back! This time with stories from the life and death of Tom Mboya.
#TooEarlyForBirds
:
Sat 5th Oct
2:00PM, 7:00PM
Sun 6th Oct
11:00AM, 3:00PM, 7:00PM
Visa Oshwal Community Center
Tickets:
RT please, our next fan might be on your TL.
OKAY! We hear you! Thank you for the love & threats. We wanna be back on stage. We live for this! We need your help though. Please (honestly) fill out and share this form:
That info will help us decide if we can do a rerun and when. Cool?
RT!
Hey
@armuisME
,
Days pass & we remain speechless. So we gathered whatever words remained and put a little message together.
All we have is gratitude: Thank you!
For believing in a crazy idea with a weird name.
For being among the first 300 in KNT 3 yrs ago.
Rest well.
🕊❤️
The set, cast, pages & pages of lines, phenomenal writing, humor, grabbing a full auditorium’s attention for 4 hrs, relevance to today’s politics…phew! Petition to have
@tooearly4birds
rewrite a huge chunk of Kenya’s history curriculum. 👑 6 brilliant sold out shows!
#TEFBMboya
Declassified files reveal how 5 of the imprisoned independence heroes known as the Kapenguria Six were paid monthly fees & enjoyed a relatively comfortable but restricted life that would have made any African civil servant in the colonial service jealous.
Today marks 55 years since Tom Mboya, one of the founding fathers of the nation, departed the earth. And what better time to mark this, than at a time when the youth are fighting for their nation back?
Thread 🧵
Go do the thing today
@EliudKipchoge
! ✊🏿
#Eliud159
We cannot wait to tell stories about you on a future
#TooEarlyForBirds
.
You’re doing something humanity has long held as an impossibility.
You know what that takes?
Hey fam!
Ours is to just say thank you for the immense love, support and goodwill that you have shown us.
The team put a lot of work into
#TooEarlyForBirds
#TomMboya
Edition. You validated all of it.
Thank you for showing up, laughing and crying with us.
You are amazing!
❤️
The president everyone expected. A man everyone thought would be president. A former president no one expected at the time. Jomo Kenyatta,Tom Mboya and Mwai Kibaki when KANU won the national elections in 1963.
📷:
@KResearcher
We choose to remember
@KuisanMacharia
beaming, fabulous, with open arms and surrounded by brilliance and bravery as in this picture taken after
#TEFBrazen
.
You’ve been our greatest champion; we would never have been possible without you.
Thank you for making history.
♥️
Having a President who deems the learning of History useless because 'it cannot help this country industrialize', it is important to remember that:
"Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it."
Human beings by nature repeat patterns. Watching
@tooearly4birds
perform the Mboya story and you'll see the patterns repeated. Now we must figure out how to set ourselves free from this.
Watching
#TEFBMboya
got me upset with how grossly underfunded the arts are, that we may never get to enjoy - at that level of quality performance - all the stories in our history that give relevance to our existence. But we keep hope alive. Kudos
@tooearly4birds
cast & crew 👏🏾.
If you loved the music played at the Mboya show and you tried Shazamming mpaka ukachoka, here's the link to the Spotify playlist, curated by our very own
@m2thepower3
😁
Eish, hata kama sina followers I have to properly tout
@tooearly4birds
this was an A+ production. Actually is an, juu nategea rerun 😜 and priss post your playlist on Spotify, the music was topnotch. Found myself shazamming a number of songs that were original
#TEFBMboya
Hey everyone!
It's finally Mboya week!
And so, we're doing a give-away of 7 tickets!
To participate, please retweet and comment under this post telling us why we should gift you a ticket, and tag 2 of your friends to support you.
We'll announce the winners soon!
Please note that Tubman Road isn't named after Harriet Tubman (how would Jomo Kenyatta even think of her? 😅)
It is named after William Tubman, the 19th President of Liberia and one of the founders of the OAU (Organization of African Union).
Onyatto 1's buddy that one.
You know, one of the things I like about
@tooearly4birds
is the audience. The crowd is always such a mood. You're literally with your tribe. People who share in your love for the arts and storytelling, the events portrayed in the play and, for this weekend,
#RutoMustGo
.
"This is the evolution of a man through love found and love lost through victory and defeat, joy and sorrow, plenty and without through music, poetry and movement. Witness the path that was and still is. The path that we can all, if not most, relate to."
Who killed it?
So excited for the show because it's almost here with us!
2 days to gooooo! 🥳🥳
Get your tickets here:
📸:
@truthslinger
Creative Director:
@QueenGathoni
Production manager: Kola Agnes.
In June 2018, led by a team of fierce women, we will give you Too Early For Birds, The Brazen Edition.
This edition will tell stories of the bold, the shameless, the women from all corners of the country; on whose counsel and fight this nation was built.
Cast Reveal Time!
Introducing
@Ngartia
!
Ngartia is a storyteller in different media. He has pursued tales through poetry, screenwriting, acting and short stories. His orature has explored Kenyan History, gaining prominence through TEFB, which he co-founded (hence why we're here)
Good morning everyone,
The show finally ended (we honestly didn't want it to end 😔).
Big thanks to everyone who came. We hope you enjoyed it!!
And to those who're coming to the Saturday and Sunday shows, karibuni sana!!
Hey everyone,
Since this month marks Tom Mboya's death anniversary (won't mention the number of years because we'll pose it as a question to you), we have decided to dedicate this account to sharing knowledge on him, through trivias and threads.
So, stay tuned ✊🏿.
For everyone who loved Njora's monologues, he'll be having his show titled, 'Tumetoka Very Far' at the end of the month.
So, please show your support by buying a ticket (here) and attending it. It'll have balls... and much more 🤭
Especially when the Hamilton reference came up and she was on the spotlight 🥹
"So how does a Kenyan, youtman, son of labourers from a poor fam, dropped in the middle of a
forgotten spot here in Africa by providence, impoverished, kusota, grow up to be a shujaa and
a scholar?"
Johson & Johnson said it would continue selling its controversial baby powder “around the world,” but not in
#US
and
#Canada
where the company faced lawsuits claiming the product causes cancer
You asked for a show and we heard you.
We sweetened the package and made this edition all about the mind blowing, ceiling shattering, brazen women from our history.
Our ticketing line to the
#TEFBrazen
edition is now open!
#TooEarlyForBirds
Are you 30+? Do you feel misunderstood? Are you just trying to have fun and maybe learn something? Are you trying to avoid stampedes? Are you seeking a show where you can have a blast amongst -30 peeps without feeling judged? We have just the show for you:
Cast Reveal Time!
Patana na
@elsaphan_njora
!
He is an actor, poet, writer, musician (sijajua nirushe 'struggling' kwa gani hapa), TV Presenter (if you watch the hiking show '
#Twende
' on NTV) and father. He is a lover of cats (which Sakaja is about to tax) and hot beverages.
Today, we've decided to revisit our first-ever TEFB billboard, installed on July 5th, the day Mboya was assassinated 😭.
We can't get over how special this moment is for us, all made possible by your support.
Mark your calendars for 2nd - 4th August. For tickets, link in bio.
On this day, 55 years ago, the Cabinet Ministers of the Kenyatta Government gathered in his Gatundu home for an emergency meeting following the assassination of Tom Mboya. There were fears of ethnic clashes, therefore solutions had to be discussed.
Cast Reveal Time!
Have you met
@mercymutisya_ai
(in person, not through AI)?
She is simply divergent. A polymath in nature, she excels in everything she puts her mind to. Mara theatre. Mara film. She's on Netflix. But pia Showmax.
Her acting is elite, but her writing is mwah 🫦!
MBOYA!!!
What a way to start the week?!
Just 10 days to go!
And our cast are now bringing the heat!!
If you haven't bought our tickets, then do it today!
Here's the link:
A reminder to all the fantastic deaf, Deaf, hard of hearing people and wheelchair users who want to join us for the
#TomMboya
Edition:
We’ll have a sign language translator for each
#TooEarlyForBirds
rerun show.
The venue is wheelchair friendly.
DM us for seat reservation. ☺️
For those who're looking into reading on the stories of the individual students who went to America under Mboya's student airlifts program, you can get a copy of this book from
@NuriaStore
When it comes to the transformation to a role, Ywaya Xavier (
@savinskee
) perfectly embodies the character of Tom Mboya.
Get your tickets for the Mboya show, happening from Thursday 21st November to Sunday 24th November, through the link in bio, and come see him in action!
Cast reveal Time!
Have y'all met
@nyokafimacharia
?
Nyokabi is a seasoned thespian with a decade of experience in film and theatre as an actor and director. She is passionate about telling stories from Africa, as the founder of SFA.
She is also a voice actor, moderator and host.
Still reeling over yesternight.
@tooearly4birds
has to be one of the most beautiful things I’ve seen in my life. entertaining, well researched and well written. They had us learning, laughing, dancing and fighting tears too. Loved the satire and the maandamano references.
#TEFB
Just how many weddings are happening on Saturday 9th?!
We're still on that no limits vibe though, why only do two shows?
This is for everyone who said they had a wedding to attend that Sato, see you at
#TooEarlyForBirds
on:
Sunday 10th
2:00PM & 7:00PM
The Mboya cast could not hold their joy as they re-united 5 years since the last Mboya show in 2019!
Rehearsals are underway to bring you the biggest and dopest re-run ever, on 2nd - 4th Aug.
Have you already bought your tickets? What are you waiting for? Check the link in bio!
Ladies and Gentlemen... (drums roll)
Our very own Tom Mboya!
@savinskee
Ywaya is a decorated Film, TV & Stage Actor. He is also an independent film & theatre producer who is very passionate about the craft and storytelling.
Get your tickets and come see Tom Mboya alive!