Theater

 

The Wonders @ Traveling Jewish Theatre

 

This year TJT’s Educational Touring and Outreach Program (ETOP) presents an original play that explores the American Jewish experience through the stories of three women: a Yiddish actress, a beauty queen, and a young playwright who thinks she may be a “member of the tribe.” Drawn together through their love of splendid singing, comic buffoonery, delightful dancing, and true tall tales, these vivacious characters will take you on a rollicking, magical journey straight into the heart of the Jewish soul.  Inspired by our vaudevillian roots, The Wonders is part of an initiative marking the 350th anniversary of Jewish life in America. “Celebrate 350,” is a year-long series of programs across the country. The National Foundation for Jewish Culture  is promoting plays and theaters, like TJT, that are participating nationally.  The Wonders is directed by TJT Associate Artist, Eric Rhys Miller, and co-created and performed by Téana David, Karine Koret and Sigal Shoham.

February 4 – 13, 2005

Traveling Jewish Theatre, 470 Florida St., San Francisco: Feb. 4 – 6, 2005

 

 

Dan Hoyle's

FLORIDA 2004: THE BIG BUMMER

 

Written and Performed by Dan Hoyle

1074 Valencia, 2 doors over from the Marsh theater

Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays at 8:00pm

February 3 - 26 ONLY

 

In FLORIDA 2004: THE BIG BUMMER, Dan Hoyle chronicles the 10 days he spent as a volunteer in Tampa, Florida working sixteen-hour days on the Kerry campaign. With his trademark brand of "journalistic theater," Dan transforms into the drawl-tongued truck drivers, vitriolic Vietnam Vets, and earnest but spacey West Coast volunteers he met along the way. A riveting showdown between Michael Moore and a phalanx of protesters, an inspired dance piece about the emotional ups and downs a door-to-door canvasser experiences, and a giddy Election Night pre-victory party that quickly turned sour are all recreated in a hugely comic, fresh and heart-breaking show.

 

TICKETS: $10-15 (sliding scale)

RESERVATIONS: (415) 826-5750

or e-mail at tickets@themarsh.org

 

 

Yugen Presents

Michael Sakamoto and company

The Rite of Spring, etc.

 

February's offering is a return engagement by Los Angeles-based artist MICHAEL SAKAMOTO who performed as part of Yugen Presents in June 2003 with his critically acclaimed Glorious Day for an Unknown Woman. This time Sakamoto brings his diverse ensemble of multi-talented performers including NEA award-winning actress/performance artist, Suzan Averitt, Italian actor Francesco Mazzini and actress/dancer Nurit Siegel in a contemporary yet timeless dance theater work using the piano version of Stravinsky's "The Rite of Spring."

 

The Rite of Spring, etc. blends frenetic dance, butoh movement, multiple languages, comedy, melodrama, dream imagery and pop music (from French music hall to Aimee Mann) as four character archetypes - an arrogant actor, an idealistic monk, an absurd harlequin, and an unbridled free spirit - traverse and ultimately transcend a vast terrain of emotion, psychology and culture. Delving into a zeitgeist of fear versus vulnerability and the hard matter of human relationships, the characters love, hate, manipulate, idolize, miscommunicate, reject and ultimately accept themselves and the world around them.

 

The performances are Monday/Tuesday February 20 & 21, 2005 8:00pm. Admission is $10-$15 sliding scale.

 

Reservations can be made at (415) 621-7978. or online