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World Premiere: “Lay My Burden Down” Free Play (SF)

Friday, May 8, 2026 - 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm | Cost: FREE*
*Tickets available at a sliding scale $0-$25

Ruth's Table | 3160 21st St, SF, CA 94110

Event Details

Strange Angels Theatre presents the world premiere of “Lay My Burden Down” at the San Francisco International Arts Festival

 

Lay My Burden Down is a serious play with silly puppets about an interracial lesbian couple navigating the burdens of privilege, trauma, and racism—and the transformations that become possible with aging, dying, and loving. Two women meet at a deathbed, decades after the explosive end of their relationship. The dying woman—mother, savior, murderer—is both puppet (literally) and puppet master, having brought her biological and spiritual daughters together again. But as the former lovers fight old battles and relive past passions (with the help of sock puppets), it becomes clear that the reunion won’t go as planned.

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Cost: FREE*
*Tickets available at a sliding scale $0-$25
Categories: Community, In Person, Theater & Performance
Venue: Ruth's Table
Address: 3160 21st St, SF, CA 94110

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