And It’s More Relevant Than Ever
When Free Me first ran in November 2025, Nairobi showed up. Now, six months later, the awards have caught up with what audiences already felt as they left that theatre. At the 2026 Kenya Theatre Awards, the production took home four awards from six nominations. Best Production, Best Director for Mugambi Nthiga, Breakthrough Female Performance for Renee Gichuki, and Best Male Supporting Actor for Tobit Tom.
And if you needed any more reason to go, open your phone. Check the news. Chances are, somewhere in today’s headlines, there is a story about a woman who was hurt, or worse, by someone who was supposed to love her. We are at a point in Kenya where these stories are coming faster than we can process them. Every week, there is a name. Every week, there is outrage. And then the news cycle moves, and we move with it, until the next one.
Free Me does not let you move on.
When something shifts from a headline to a human being standing in front of you on stage, it lands differently. It stops being something that happens to other people. It starts feeling like something that happens to people you know. Because it does.
The play follows one woman’s life from when she was young and full of hope, through a marriage that turned into something she had to survive, and out the other side.
This is not the kind of show that comes around often, and it is running this weekend only. Friday, June 5th, at 7 PM, Saturday, at 3 PM and 7 PM, Sunday, at 3 PM and 7 PM, at C.U. Shah Jain Bhavan in Loresho. Tickets are available here.
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