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How ‘In the Seashell Hum’ forces audiences to tackle mental health
Actor Nick Ndeda (Baraka), Angela Mwandanda (Kendi) and Foi Wamboi (Salma) in a scene from Adipo Sidang’s In The Seashell Hum at the Kenya National Theatre, Nairobi, on May 16–17, 2026.
Adipo Sidang’s In the Seashell Hum belongs firmly in the category of plays that are felt by the audience. The play, produced by Mudamba Mudamba, directed by Victor Gatonye and stage managed by Mercy Koi, is an emotionally bruising meditation on masculinity, trauma and the quiet violence of mental illness, staged with enough psychological intimacy to leave parts of its audience visibly shaken.
On its Nairobi debut, on a weekend run from May 16 to 17, the production submerged audiences into the fractured interior world of a man struggling to distinguish memory, grief and identity from delusion.
