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“San Francisco Mime Troupe” Live Summer Musical in the Park (2024)
The Tony Award-winning San Francisco Mime Troupe continues its 2024 season with more free and lively performances in park settings around the Bay Area.
San Francisco Mime Troupe | 2024
Free political theater & music in parks all over the Bay Area
Various dates: July 4 – Sept. 8, 2024
SF, Berkeley, Oakland, Palo Alto, and more
FREE (donations requested)See the full 2024 schedule
Founded in 1959, the San Francisco Mime Troupe creates and produces socially relevant theater; despite the name “mime,” their work is not pantomime, but live musical comedy and political satire.
2024 Show: American Dreams
WAS DEMOCRACY JUST A DREAM?
The American Dream. It used to mean a job, a house, a car, a spouse, 2.5 kids, and a .4 dog. But what does it mean now? For Gabriel Pearce, a Black man tired of liberal failures, on the day after the presidential election it means victory! Giving up on progressivism wasn’t easy, but casting his vote for a Conservative who promises to be grateful could mean a dream come true. However, for his daughter Paine – a teacher at a university caught between protesting students and threats to funding – it’s a nightmare! Or was the lost election just a dream? Or will A.I. catch fire, like Paine’s boyfriend Oliver sees in his nightmares? Do androids dream of electronic voting? Can we create the utopia of justice activist student Emma hopes for, or is the present just a dream within a dream within a dream? But whether you’re asleep or Woke what some see as nightmares others see as… American Dreams.
The San Francisco Mime Troupe creates and produces socially relevant theater of the highest professional quality and performs it before the broadest possible audience.
We do plays that make sense out of the headlines by identifying the forces that shape our lives and dramatizing the operation of these giant forces in small, close-up stories that make our audiences feel the impact of political events on personal life.To make this work accessible the Mime Troupe performs its shows in local parks at a price everyone can afford: Free.
Disclaimer: Please double check event information with the event organizer as events can be canceled, details can change after they are added to our calendar, and errors do occur.
Cost: FREE*
