[NEohioPAL]San Francisco Mime Troupe Comes to Cleveland Public Theatre

Fri Oct 19 14:07:01 PDT 2001

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World Famous "Speaking Mimes"
Come to Cleveland Public Theatre for
Two Nights Only!!
October 23 and 24 at 8pm
The Tony Award-winning San Francisco Mime Troupe (SFMT) visits Cleveland for
two days on Tuesday, October 23 and Wednesday, October 24, 2001 with its hit
musical satire Eating It.  A thought-provoking and humorous look at the
specter of market-driven genetic engineering, the new play embodies the
political wit that has earned the anything but silent Troupe national and
international acclaim for more than four decades.  Eating It premiered in
San Francisco on July 4, 2000, and went on to set record numbers for
audience attendance on its summer tour of Bay Area parks and theaters
throughout Northern California. Performances for this limited engagement are
in Cleveland Public Theatre’s Gordon Square Theatre on Tuesday, October 23 &
Wednesday October 24, 2001 at 8:00 p.m. Ticket prices are $20.00 for regular
tickets and $15.00 for students and seniors. For more information and
reservations, please call 216.631.2727 ext. 500.

A special reception and benefit to support the Ohio Green Party, The Food
Co-op, Ohio Alliance for Safe Food, Women Speak Out, The Mustard Seed and
Sierra Club will take place after the performance on Tuesday, October 23,
2001 at Cleveland Public Theatre. Ticket prices for the benefit are $50.00
and includes admission to the performance. For more information, please
contact Director of Marketing and Public Relations, Jeff Syroney at
216.631.2727 ext. 203.

 Eating It is science fiction satire set in the immediate future.
Protagonists Synthia and Isaac Albright are genetic engineers, and creators
of Super Corn, a genetically enhanced vegetable. The patent on Super Corn
has made them famous and garnered them the full support of a corporation
“BobCo”.  Now Synthia is working on an even more powerful seed, one she
hopes will end world hunger, and Isaac knows will make them wealthy.  The
new seed seems to offer an extraordinary opportunity for good and enormous
profit, but before it is to be released at the World Food Conference,
Synthia is having second thoughts about its impact on the environment.  With
protestors in the streets, the President preparing to become “the man who
fed the world,” and the CEO from BobCo controlling events for his economic
advantage, a mysterious Old Man arrives desperate to stop Synthia from
releasing Super Corn.  Is he some Luddite nut?  Or is he really from the
future where the world has been ravaged by mutant plants, genetic
contamination, and reduced to a barren wasteland?  Will Synthia believe him?
And why does he look so much like Isaac?

“The corn doesn’t just grow high in the San Francisco Mime Troupe’s ‘Eating
It.’ The bio-engineered super-corn grows high fast – very fast.  It not only
resists herbicides, it cannibalizes neighboring plants and replaces them.
Devised to combat world hunger, it’s a worldwide environmental nightmare
leaving a legacy of ‘dark acid clouds raining mutant genes on the seared
flesh of Mother Earth,’” says Robert Hurwitt, theater critic at the San
Francisco Examiner.

"Eating It” asks the question "Are we at the day after Trinity in regard to
genetic engineering?" said Dan Chumley, company member and one of the play's
creators.  With more and more genetically modified material appearing in
wild plants and our food supply, it’s clear that corporations have put the
bottom line above human safety, and short-term profit ahead of the health of
our planet. Will market influences bypass the use of scientific method to
the point where the important questions will never be asked?  "Now is the
time, and perhaps our last chance to act, before we poison the world," added
Eating It’s head writer, and company member, Michael Gene Sullivan.  (Eating
It’s script won the Garland Award Honorable Mention from Back Stage
West/Drama-Logue for Original Musical Score & Playwriting.)

Never a company to shy away from tackling large political questions, the San
Francisco Mime Troupe has been producing socially relevant musical theater
since 1959.  The Troupe has been called "the most established
anti-establishment theater" in the United States.  Its survival through
repressive regimes, Bay Area theater boom years, and subsequent regional
theater attrition, including the emasculation of the NEA, is a testament to
its broad constituency and its ability to speak their thoughts.  Endowed
with a wealth of artistically inspired members, the Troupe’s emphasis has
remained on the ensemble not the ego, holding closely to the ideals of
multiculturalism, equal wages, mentoring, and passionate popular theater.

The San Francisco Mime Troupe has won numerous Bay Area Theatre Critics'
Circle Awards.  It won its first OBIE Award in 1968 for "uniting theater and
revolution and grooving in the parks."  Since then, two more OBIEs, the
coveted Tony Award for excellence in regional theater, and the Bay Area
Media Alliance's Golden Gadfly Award for Lifetime Achievement, have been
added to the list of the company's many honors.  Hailed by San Francisco
Examiner theater critic Robert Hurwitt as one of “the four pillars of Bay
Area theater,” “politically acute and theatrically inventive,” the Troupe
recently completed a successful East Coast tour, where The New York Times
called it “a mime troupe that has a lot to say”.

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engineering?" said Dan Chumley, company member and one of the play's=20
creators.<SPAN style=3D"mso-spacerun: yes">  </SPAN>With more and =
more=20
genetically modified material appearing in wild plants and our food =
supply, it=92s=20
clear that corporations have put the bottom line above human safety, and =

short-term profit ahead of the health of our planet. Will market =
influences=20
bypass the use of scientific method to the point where the important =
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& Playwriting.)<o:p></o:p>
<SPAN=20
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<SPAN=20
style=3D"FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Never a company to shy away =
from tackling=20
large political questions, the San Francisco Mime Troupe has been =
producing=20
socially relevant musical theater since 1959.<SPAN=20
style=3D"mso-spacerun: yes">  The Troupe has been called =
"the most=20
established anti-establishment theater" in the United States.<SPAN=20
style=3D"mso-spacerun: yes">  Its survival through =
repressive regimes,=20
Bay Area theater boom years, and subsequent regional theater attrition,=20
including the emasculation of the NEA, is a testament to its broad =
constituency=20
and its ability to speak their thoughts. =20
Endowed with a wealth of artistically inspired members, the =
Troupe=92s=20
emphasis has remained on the ensemble not the ego, holding closely to =
the ideals=20
of multiculturalism, equal wages, mentoring, and passionate popular=20
theater.<o:p></o:p>
<SPAN=20
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<SPAN=20
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San Francisco Mime Troupe has won numerous Bay Area Theatre Critics' =
Circle=20
Awards.  It won its first =
OBIE Award=20
in 1968 for "uniting theater and revolution and grooving in the =
parks."<SPAN=20
style=3D"mso-spacerun: yes">  Since then, two more OBIEs, =
the coveted=20
Tony Award for excellence in regional theater, and the Bay Area Media =
Alliance's=20
Golden Gadfly Award for Lifetime Achievement, have been added to the =
list of the=20
company's many honors.  =
Hailed by <I=20
style=3D"mso-bidi-font-style: normal">San Francisco Examiner theater =
critic=20
Robert Hurwitt as one of =93the four pillars of Bay Area theater,=94 =
=93politically=20
acute and theatrically inventive,=94 the Troupe recently completed a =
successful=20
East Coast tour, where The New =
York=20
Times called it =93a mime troupe that has a lot to =
say=94.<o:p></o:p>
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