MUNGO PARK: TRAVELS IN THE INTERIOR OF AFRICA:  2016-18
​Co-produced with Mungo Park Theatre, Allerod, Denmark
"A triumph of political theatre, Mungo Park will not disappoint."  **** Edinburgh Festivals Magazine
WINNER ! of Summerhall's LUSTRUM AWARD for OUTSTANDING THEATRE at the Edinburgh Festival 2016

CAST
​Matthew Zajac as Mungo Park
Anders Budde Christensen
Kingsley Amadi

Directed by Martin Lyngbo
Written by
Martin Lyngbo and Thor Bjorn Krebs
Designer Palle Steen Christensen
Composer  Marcus Aurelius Hjelmborg
​Lighting Jakob Rasmussen

2016 Edinburgh Festival Fringe at Summerhall
2016 Scottish Tour  
2017 Danish Tour including Copenhagen Stage Festival 
2018 Leeuwarden European Capital of Culture, Netherlands

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CAST
​Matthew Zajac as Mungo Park
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Anders Budde Christensen
Kingsley Amadi

Directed by Martin Lyngbo
Written by Martin Lyngbo and Thor Bjorn Krebs
Dogstar is delighted to be working with one of Scandinavia’s most innovative and popular independent theatre companies, Mungo Park Theatre to bring a highly entertaining and epic adventure story to audiences - the story of the Scottish explorer Mungo Park.

In 1795 and 1805, Park led two expeditions to West Africa to chart the River Niger and investigate tales of vast gold wealth. Park died on the 2nd expedition, along with nearly all of his party. His journal survived. The play is a tragi-comic retelling of the story, with the 18th century figure of Park interacting with two young men from today.  As the story moves towards its latter stages, the folly of Park’s project, its development into an ever more crazy and violent colonial adventure is exposed. A rip-roaring entertainment and a salutary story.



"As a play it really has it all: a great true story, a tragic hero, and challenging themes as cultures meet. Better still, it’s carried off with panache and superb theatricality. Get to Summerhall!" ***** edinburghfringeguru.com

"...if you want a stirring measure of the man and his life, you won’t do better than this motion picture of a play.”
***** edinburgh49.org

"This show is exactly what you want to see at the Fringe - brave, innovative and wildly entertaining."  
​**** one4review.com

"A playful and thought-provoking triumph...the trio have a fantastic stage chemistry...a breakneck roller-coaster ride...with plenty of laughs... (and) plenty of depth" **** Broadway Baby

"A triumph of political theatre, Mungo Park will not disappoint."   **** Edinburgh Festivals Magazine

"A cracking script from Martin Lyngbo & Thor Bjorn Krebs that's as educational as it's entertaining."
**** The Stage

​"A big-ambitioned theatrical tour de force" **** Inverness Courier

TOURING VENUES
2016 Scotland
Summerhall Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Eden Court Theatre
Portsoy Church Hall
Stirling Tolbooth
Birnam Arts
Carlops Village Hall
Kemnay Village Hall
Newton Dee Phoenix Centre
Crathes Village Hall
Aberdeen Lemon Tree Arts Centre
Dufftown Mortlach Memorial Hall
Musselburgh Brunton Theatre
Tobermory Mull Theatre
​Isle of Skye Sabhal Mor Ostaig
Lochinver Village Hall
Stornoway An Lanntair
Peebles Eastgate Theatre
Selkirk Victoria Hall

2017  Denmark
Copenhagen Stage Festival  Betty Nansen Theatre
Allerod Mungo Park Theatre
Odense Momentum Theatre
Kolding Mungo Park Theatre

2018  Netherlands
​Leeuwarden European Capital of Culture De Harmonie Theatre

Our 2016 co-production with Mungo Park Theatre of Denmark played at the Copenhagen Stage Festival and other venues in Denmark last year.  Now it's about to be revived for performances at the 2018 European Capital of Culture celebrations in Leeuwarden in Friesland.  Performances will take place at De Harmonie Theatre in Leeuwarden on September 26-28.

Written by Martin Lyngbo and Thor Bjorn Krebs and directed by Martin, the show features Kingsley Amadi, Anders Budde Christensen and Matthew Zajac in the epic true story of the Scottish explorer's two expeditions to West Africa in 1795 and 1805 in search of the course of the River Niger.  Mungo Park - Travels in the Interior of Africa is a Hollywood blockbuster on a bare stage, a tale of adventure, colonial arrogance, courage and friendship.