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So,
In a country that is much more interested in connecting the accidental downing of a plane to an ex-enemy than condemning the purposeful slaughter of hundreds of civilians by an erstwhile ally,
In a country that spends billions illegally tracking its law-abiding citizens every move, but spends a tiny fraction of that to fail at finding 200 kidnapped girls in Nigeria,
In a country where the hard-working but destitute citizens of once proud Detroit have to protest to an un-elected corporate city manager in order to receive drinking water during a drought summer, while the richest people and corporations in the world complain that high taxes are keeping them from owning whatever their incessantly greedy hearts desire,
And in a country where the spark that will light the powder keg of violent revolution is, perhaps, as close as the next mindlessly flicked ash from the $100 cigar of a libertarian CEO who has convinced him or herself that despite the pain, misery, and suffering their soulless philosophy of endless selfishness has inflicted on the working class they themselves are safe because we, the workers, are too cowed and servile to rise up, topple the system that holds us in contempt while robbing us blind, and then chase the Ayn Randian sociopaths through the streets with pitchforks...
~we have~
Musical Comedy!
(Because every revolution should start with laughter.
Then some music.
Then move straight to the rising up, system toppling, and chasing with pitchforks part.)
Sam Hurwitt, Marin Independant
Chad Jones, San Francisco Chronicle
~ Featuring ~
Velina Brown
Keiko Shimosato Carreiro
Lisa Hori-Garcia
Michael Gene Sullivan
~ Script by ~
Michael Gene Sullivan, Eugenie Chan, Tanya Shaffer
~ Music and Lyrics by ~
Ira Marlowe
~ Directed by ~
Wilma Bonet & Hugo Carbajal
Click here for a complete schedule of performances!
~Also~
It's Christmas in July!
At 7:30, on Monday, July 28
in celebration of the birthday of labor activist/working class hero
Harry Bridges
will be presenting a reading of
Michael's working-class adaptation of
"This rousing, worker-oriented version of the time-honored Christmas story features classic songs from the labor movement but is re-imagined by Sullivan for the troubled, 21st Century. Dickens’ themes of labor unrest, joblessness and starvation are now set in an abandoned Occupy encampment, and told from the point of view of the worker, Bob Cratchit, whose beleaguered family lives in a chilly tent alongside a band of Occupy activists and artists. They survive by telling anyone who will listen this classic story of oppression and hope, as they all fall further into the abyss between rich and poor. Will anyone listen?"
at
533 Sutter Street, 2nd Floor, San Francisco
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