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Full-Length Play, Drama / 1w, 1m
Rajiv Joseph
In Senegal on the eve of the new millennium, a Peace Corps volunteer and a State Department operative form an unlikely relationship after a mysterious car accident.
Image: 2025 Manhattan Theatre Club Production (Matthew Murphy for MurphyMade)
Boubs is serving as a Peace Corps volunteer in Senegal and is a little fed up with all the red tape. The morning after he crashes a supply truck that he has filled with misappropriated goods to aid a local village's gardening group, he is reprimanded by Dina, the seasoned U.S. security agent now in charge in Dakar. She presents the smooth talker with an ultimatum: a one-way ticket back to the States or a make-good mission. Smitten with Dina and desperate to make an impact, Boubs jumps at the chance to redeem himself. But as Dina’s assignments and his feelings for her escalate, he unexpectedly finds himself in a moral dilemma, where he must decide how far he is willing to go to do what is right.
Dakar 2000 premiered off-Broadway at New York City Center’s Stage I on February 27, 2025.
BOUBS – 25. Pronounced “Boobs,” short for Boubacar. DINA STEVENS – 40s-50s.
Both characters can be any race. Dina states that she is 46, but she can be aged up (not down) as needed.
Senegal. Y2K.
“Gripping!” – New York Theatre Guide
“All the intrigue and duplicity, thirst for revenge, guileful indifference to the truth, absence of empathy for others and collateral damage to the innocent in Dakar 2000 leave us wondering if 2000 truly was the beginning of the Apocalypse. It’s a theme that resonates in the current state of our country, the world and humanity.” – DC Theater Arts
“Gripping! [The] personal and the professional overlap, taking on a new intensity, one that’s hard to describe without spoiling the play’s whirlwind of surprises.” – New York Theatre Guide
ON BREAKING CHARACTER
Rajiv Joseph in Five Plays9 April 2026
Meet the Cast of ‘Dakar 2000’
Dakar 2000 – Manhattan Theatre Club Trailer
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