(Courtesy of Egan Snow)
No One Is Safe: The SF Mime Troupe Skewers Everyone for Over 50 Years
To properly ridicule the theatrics of the powerful, it's only natural that individuals form theater groups. One of the earliest and longest lived local groups is the Tony Award–winning San Francisco Mime Troupe. In its free shows—primarily performed in parks in the Bay Area but also in Europe, Asia, and Central and South America—there's scarcely a social injustice the troupe hasn't poked at under the limelight. The 2015 play Freedomland dealt with police violence, drug laws, and illegal immigration; last year's play, Schooled, was an apparently prophetic satire on what happens when schools are privatized by corporate interests. We can't wait to see what they do with Trump.
