School’s in for Summer
The Mime Troupe takes on the privatization of public schools.
Read my review in the Marin Independent Journal. Read more
Baking Up a Revolution
S.F. Mime Troupe writer Michael Gene Sullivan whips up a satire about a revolutionary baking circle for Central Works.
Talkin’ ‘Bout a Revolution
The San Francisco Mime Troupe takes on the class war in San Francisco.
My review of Ripple Effect is in the Marin Independent Journal. Read more
Sex and Death
Sometimes, no matter how avant-garde a play’s language or structure may be, it can be reduced to a simple thesis statement. Basil Kreimendahl’s Sidewinders, for example, now premiering with the Cutting Ball Theater, boils down to “Binary gender distinctions are overrated.” And Diana Amsterdam’s Carnival Round the Central Figure, produced by Symmetry Theatre Company at Live Oak Theatre, declares in no uncertain terms that people should accept death as part of life and not pretend it isn’t happening.
Crude “Oil” Needs Refining
The San Francisco Mime Troupe’s summer show is necessarily done on the cheap this year, and from the looks of it it’s a rush job all around. My review is in today’s Marin Independent Journal.
A Fine Romance
You’d think it might be tough to be an African-American lesbian couple in the 1890s American South, but A Lady and a Woman at Theatre Rhinoceros doesn’t give that impression. My review‘s up on KQED Arts.
A Real American Hero
This year’s Mime Troupe show revels in melodrama, casting the greedy investment banker as the strapping hero and the destitute Occupy organizer as the sneering villain. Just like any right-thinking American would! You can read all about it in today’s Marin Independent Journal, available here.
