BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME:www.indybay.org PRODID:-//indybay/ical// v1.0//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:Indybay-18887607 SEQUENCE:19065481 CREATED:20260721T145300Z DESCRIPTION:Saturday & Sunday, August 1 & 2, 2026, 2:30 PM\nThe Tony Award-Winning San Francisco Mime Troupe\nOpens their 67th Season with:\n"WRECKAGE: A Musical Tragicomedy"\n(100 min. – No Intermission)\nSF Mime Troupe Political Satire is NOT Silent!\nLondon Nelson Community Center - Outdoors \n301 Center Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95060 \nFREE / Donations Appreciated \n\n2:30 pm: Live Music\n3:00 pm: Show\n\n*Bring your low beach chairs or blankets, sunhats, sunglasses & snacks.\n\nWRECKAGE: A Musical Tragicomedy asks the political question: How are we going to survive and rebuild in the rubble left from the economic, social, and psychological devastation of the idiotic kleptocrats?\n\nWritten by Michael Gene Sullivan\nMusic and Lyrics by Daniel Savio\nDirected by Lisa Hori-Garcia\nMusic Direction by Daniel Savio and Will Durkee\n\nSHORT SYNOPSIS:\n\nIs it just us, or does it feel like everything is falling apart?\n\nHallucinating robots, economic collapse, protesting frogs, people praying for the End of the World -\n\nThis is not the future, or the democracy, we were promised!\n\nBut the real question is: When it’s all over will there be enough left to build something new out of this... wreckage?\n\nTO ARRANGE INTERVIEWS CONTACT:\nLawrence Helman, Public Relations\nCALL: 415-336-8220 \nEMAIL: heytheresells@gmail.com\n\nFOR INFO CALL: 415-285-1717\n\nPRESS PAGE: https://www.sfmt.org/press-wreckage\n\nPRESS PHOTOS: sfmt.org/press-photos\n\nTRAILER: sfmt.org/press-media \nwww.youtube.com/watch?v=hjOWUqlQrDY\n\nSHOW PAGE: https://www.sfmt.org/show-archive/wreckage-a-musical-tragicomedy\n\nAUDIO CLIPS: sfmt.org/press-media COMING SOON\n\nhttps://www.sfmt.org\nfacebook.com/sfmimetroupe\ninstagram.com/SFTroupers\ntwitter.com/SFTroupers\nwww.youtube.com/@SanFranciscoMimeTroupe\n\nSCHEDULE BY DATE: sfmt.org/press-schedule-by-dates\nSCHEDULE BY AREA: sfmt.org/press-schedule-by-area\n\nSchedules can be accessed on the SFMT press page: \nhttps://www.sfmt.org/press-wreckage\n\nLow and high resolution photos are available at: \nhttps://www.sfmt.org/press-photos \n\nLONG SYNOPSIS:\n\nIs it just us, or does it feel like everything is falling apart?\n\nMari, a flower seller barely managing to hold on in an increasingly unaffordable city, must defend her street corner from invading evangelical Felicity, who is herself torn between joyfully anticipating the Rapture and the discrepancies she’s found in her church’s accounting. Meanwhile Bobbie, a successful software developer who realizes his new AI agent is far from intelligent, is caught between telling his bosses at Anthropomorphic the dangerous truth, or delivering a dud that will - despite endangering the world - boost the stock. And patriotic immigrant Lance joined the National Guard and now finds himself deployed against protesters who are exercising the very freedom of speech he joined the military to defend!\n\nHallucinating robots, economic collapse, protesting frogs, people praying for the End of the World -\n\nThis is not the future, or the democracy, we were promised!\n\nBut the real question is: When it’s all over will there be enough left to build something new out of this... wreckage?\n \nCAST:\nWRECKAGE: A Musical Tragicomedy features a four-person cast that includes veteran SF Mime Troupe collective members: Michael Gene Sullivan* (Security, Nestor, Bobby, Paul); Jed Parsario* (Gideon, Business Man, Bertrand, Karl, Lance); Keiko Shimosato Carreiro* (Stage Manager, Mari, Jeribeth); Chloris Li (Felicity, Business Woman, Fredericka, Claudine, Sergeant Nicola, Mari’s Mother).\n\n* The Actors and Stage Manager employed in this production are members of Actors' Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.\n\nSFMT BAND: \nWill Durkee (Bass, Guitar); Daniel Savio (Keyboards, Slide Whistle); and Miguel Jose Wacher (Drums, Percussion).\n\nBIOS: sfmt.org/press-bios\n\nTECH CREDITS: \nCostume Designer: Keiko Shimosato Carreiro; Props: Marie Cartier; Sound Designer / Engineer: Taylor Gonzalez; Scenic Painting Design & Painter: Crash Des Rosiers; Scenic Design: Michael Gene Sullivan; Technical Director: Pietro Calogero; Carpenter & Sound Production Assistant: Sol Ibarra-Campos; A2s: Steve Kiyota Jong, Alex Nigro; Stitcher: Isabella Junebug; Poster Design: Tasi Alabastro; Graphic Design: Adan Gonzalez; Production Manager: Marissa Hinckley-Barnes; Rehearsal Stage Manager: Mirin Scassellati; Assistant Stage Manager: Casey Moore; Dramaturg: Jolie Ouyang; Tour Stage Manager: Cheryle Honerlah; Production Assistants: Guinevere Q; Sai Singh; Ruby Mihalko; Booking Coordinator and Tour Manager: Terri Demartini; Publicity: Lawrence Helman; Photography: Ben Krantz Studio.\n\nCHARACTER DESCRIPTIONS:\n\nMari (Keiko Shimosato Carreiro) – a Japanese American woman who's in internment camp surviving parents raise her to believe that struggling against oppression only causes more problems.\n\nBertrand (Jed Parsario) - Mari’s Landlord.\n\nFrederica (Chloris Li) - Mari’s neighbor, an influencer.\n\nNestor (Michael Gene Sullivan) - an unemployed, business businessman, Mari’s friend.\n\nGideon (Jed Parsario) - an evangelical preacher.\n\nFelicity (Chloris Li) - a true believer in Gideon's flock.\n\nBobby (Michael Gene Sullivan) - a successful senior AI developer.\n\nKarl (Jed Parsario) - Bobby's ex-student and protégé.\n\nJeribeth (Keiko Shimosato Carreiro) - Bobby's wife, a group counselor.\n\nLance (Jed Parsario) - an immigrant who joined the national guard to gain his citizenship.\n\nSergeant Nicola (Chloris Li) - a sergeant in the National Guard.\n\nPaul (Michael Gene Sullivan) - a soldier.\n\nStage Manager (Keiko Shimosato Carreiro) - Gideon’s stage manager.\n\nSecurity (Michael Gene Sullivan) - Gideon’s security.\n\nClaudine - an AI avatar.\n\nQ: Why do you call yourself a Mime Troupe if you talk and sing?\n\nWe use the term “mime” in its classical and original definition, "The exaggeration of daily life in story and song." It is a form of popular theater that is as old as the marketplace itself. From the ancient Greek and Roman farces to the Renaissance commedia dell'Arte to modern Chinese Opera, using archetypes comically to illustrate people's issues is a time-honored worldwide tradition. Our broadly drawn characters are instantly recognizable allowing the audience to immediately engage in the action. Our work is political satire and anything but silent. \n\nSF MIME TROUPE HISTORY: sfmt.org/press-history\n\nNEWS - SF MIME TROUPE 2026:\n\n1. The San Francisco Mime Troupe receives The Prize of Hope 2026 from Åsen Theatre in Denmark for a body of theatrical work created over years in the San Francisco Bay Area under the motto: Theatre is the Town square. The Prize of Hope is awarded to a person or a theatre that has worked for human hope; daring, loving, vulgar, serious, poetic… with sparkling energy against habitual thinking, which is the greatest threat to our culture: for a world where people use their own eyes, ears, and voices.\n\n2. Michael Gene Sullivan received the CHARLES DEAN AWARD for Outstanding achievement in acting and dedication to Bay Area Theatre. This prestigious award is given by Berkeley Repertory Theatre and the Robinson Family Fund for the arts.\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2026/07/21/18887607.php SUMMARY:WRECKAGE: A Musical Tragicomedy from San Francisco Mime Troupe LOCATION:London Nelson Community Center - Outdoors \n301 Center St., Santa Cruz, CA 95060 URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2026/07/21/18887607.php DTSTART:20260802T213000Z DTEND:20260802T233000Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR