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NCP ventures into the area of murder-mystery with Rope (1959)

1959 marked NCP’s fourth year in operation and the company ventured into the world of murder-mystery with Rope by Patrick Hamilton which […]

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NCP enters the world of farce with Will Any Gentleman? (1958)

Will Any Gentleman? by Vernon Sylvaine, which was staged at the National Theatre from 5 – 13 September 1958, was NCP’s first […]

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NCP raises the bar with the 1958 courtroom drama – Carrington, V.C.

Carrington, V.C., by husband and wife playwrights Dorothy and Campbell Christie, was the first of what would become a series of military […]

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Kenya Drama Festival 1958 – NCP shines with Two Gentlemen of Soho

Two Gentlemen of Soho was NCP’s first ever entry in the Kenya Drama Festival in March 1958. The Festival ( for one-act […]

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1958 – Romanoff and Juliet fails to please the critics

NCP’s 5th production and the first of 1958 was a comedy – Romanoff and Juliet – by Peter Ustinov and it was […]

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NCP First Anniversary Production (1957) – Payment Deferred

Payment Deferred is a crime novel by C.S. Forester first published in 1926. It became a Broadway play in 1931 and was […]

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1957 The Man Who Came to Dinner

NCP’s second production, The Man Who Came to Dinner written by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman, was staged at the Kenya […]

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1957 Ring Round The Moon

Ring Round The Moon by Jean Anouilh was the third production staged by NCP in the National Theatre, 19-27 July 1957. The […]

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1956 – The Love of Four Colonels is now online

NCP’s first ever production – The Love of Four Colonels – which was staged at the Kenya National Theatre from 16-24 November […]

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