Nairobi is about to witness This Plot is Not For Sale —a daring new production that leans into postcolonial satire while asking audiences the big questions: How do we see each other – and how does that affect the future we choose to build?

A photo studio that isn’t what it seems. Three characters are caught between utopia, guilt, and self-staging. Poetry, grotesque humour, and absurd re-enactments collide in one unforgettable performance. This Plot is Not For Sale introduces audiences to Pete (Nairobi), Kathi (Munich), and Stevan (former Yugoslavia)—three characters negotiating the tangled terrain of complicity and identity. Expect satire sharpened to a razor’s edge, layered with multilingual dialogue, unexpected turns, and a theatrical style that’s as witty as it is unsettling.

Set in a surreal photo studio, the trio explore image reproduction, identity, and the de/construction of stereotypes. Pete and Kathi arrive in Stevan’s studio with a vision of the “Giraiffel Tower”. This fantasy, “Paris of the Savannah,” unravels as images multiply and the trio must confront the distance between the stories they project and the truths they avoid.

This is theatre as provocation. Theatre as mirror. Theatre as invitation. Kenyan audiences are in for an experience that pushes boundaries and sparks conversation about the shifting balances of global power, and the ways we still carry the weight of history into the present.

Premiering in Nairobi on 26 & 27 September 2025 at the Goethe-Institut the show will later travel to Munich’s Spielart Festival, The production brings together a powerful trio of creatives: Gisemba Ursula (Kenya), Theresa Seraphin (Germany), and Denijen Pauljević (Germany). 

The play features languages from each country and invites Kenyan audiences to an unexpected theatrical experience. Given the current global power shifts, the play introduces timely conversations around privilege, race and class relations and challenges long overstayed neocolonial traditions that remain unquestioned.

This Plot is Not For Sale is a theatrical reminder that even in absurdity, the stories we tell and the images we reproduce hold real power.

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More About the Artists

  • Gisemba Ursula, an artist working across performance, sound, and film, is no stranger to radical storytelling. Her projects—seen from the Kampala Biennale to the Spielart Theater Festival—dive deep into experimentation and critical narratives.
  • Theresa Seraphin, a theatre maker, curator, and award-winning playwright, brings her sharp dramaturgical eye and lyrical voice to the collaboration, weaving poetry with performance.
  • Denijen Pauljević, a writer and performer whose own life story spans war, migration, and reinvention, adds a raw honesty and political urgency to the work, drawing from years of experience as a theatre maker and cultural leader in Munich.

The Nairobi Premiere is at Goethe-Institut Friday 26 & Saturday 27 September at 7pm.

Tickets are available at Sanaa Tickets.