Nick Kwach & Bernice Nthenya in Heartstrings’ grass is greener.J. FILE PHOTO | MARGARETTA WA GACHERU | NMG

As soon as once more, it’s legitimate to say Heartstrings are sensible storytellers. They mix scintillating comedy with biting satire which is the gist of GMO.

In Get Me Out or GMO, Bernice Nthenya performs a five-star prostitute who’s so intelligent that the lads she cons don’t even know she is a professional.

She’s accused by her home assist Nancy (Esther Kahuha) in the direction of the top of the play of being lazy and never exhausting working. However fairly the opposite!

Her character Melissa is an attractive lady who has a magical charisma that she makes use of to make males imagine she’s the reply to their goals. She has bought magnificence, physique, and brains, and it’s mentioned she is sensible in mattress.

However she’s additionally bought an issue which we don’t absolutely perceive till the very finish of the comedy. We get an inkling of it when the video previous the play reveals her strolling from one Chemist’s store to a different, in search of one thing.

It seems to be a do-it-yourself being pregnant take a look at which appears prefer it registered constructive for Melissa.

The following factor you recognize, she’s along with her sweetheart Frank (Fischer Maina), a chef who’s thrilled that his girlfriend is pregnant along with his youngster.

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Being an orphan who grew up in a kids’s house, Frank is eager to start out a household and provides their youngster the most effective alternatives in life that he by no means had.

However to try this, he says he wants cash. So, he’s off to work in Dubai and be again in a yr. She begrudgingly lets him go.

It appears candy and simple. However then, one other man arrives who lays declare to her being pregnant, particularly after listening to Melissa’s child is a boy.

Wanyama (Arnold Savior), a sugar cane farmer, already has eight daughters and a spouse. However he is ready to forged them apart for a boy youngster and new spouse.

Then comes Kasyoki (Tim Ndisi), the filthy wealthy politician who carries his tens of millions (cash stolen from public coffers) round in an armoured suitcase protected by a non-public safety guard (Richard Macharia).

He too is delighted to be the daddy of Melissa’s child and simply forks out funds for the mom and youngster.

In each occasion, Melissa is chameleon-like in her capability to adapt to every altering state of affairs. Her goal, as we now see[ms], is to extract as a lot money from these males as she probably can.

However the time for getting large cash from these guys, (aside from Frank who’s struggling to outlive in Dubai) comes when she meets them at her gynaecologist’s workplace. Dr Ruth is in cahoots with Melissa to extract the utmost in money from ‘Lissa’s males.

All within the identify of making certain the infant’s well being, she’s billing Wanyama for greater than Sh1 million which he can solely present if he sells his land, and he does.

The politician has no drawback paying up; however when Frank calls Dr Ruth from Dubai, the state of affairs will get tense since Melissa’s there and doesn’t need Frank to see her with one other man.

Her racket runs easily for 5 years. The story fast-forwards to when Frank lastly arrives again after barely discovering the means to make it house.

Wanyama additionally reveals up, pathetic in his drawback after promoting his land and having nothing to indicate for it. And when politician Kasyoki arrives, we’re watching a flamable state of affairs.

It is when Melissa lastly walks in that the stress is nearly insufferable. She is now trapped like a rat. However right here once more, the woman’s genius manifests itself.

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Right here had been the three males she’d conned and extracted heaps of money from. They’d by no means been collectively earlier than, by no means knew the others existed, so the scene seemed risky.

Preempting the accusations, aside from Nancy’s since she had began off the blame sport, Melissa took the offensive.

She dropped at thoughts the scriptural story of the girl ‘taken in adultery, within the very act.’ Jesus’ response to her accusers turned the essence of her argument. He advised them, “He that’s with out sin amongst you, let him first forged a stone at her.” (John 8: 7)

On this regard, she famous Wanyama’s infidelity, Kasyoki’s thievery of public coffers, and even Nancy for abandoning her son, Frank.

However the present shocker was when Dr Ruth confirmed up blaming Melissa for sleeping along with her partner, the actual father of the infant boy born 5 years again.

He was the explanation she’d wished all that money, she claimed. And at that second, the boy walked on stage and the curtain got here down.

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