San Francisco Theater Festival
July 28, 2008 – 10:26 pmYesterday, Barbara and I went to the San Francisco Theater Festival, a free event held at Yerba Buena Gardens. The festival was created to bring community attention to the Bay Area’s live theater scene. Over a hundred solo performers and groups participate in the one day festival. With 14 stages, and each performance lasting from 15-30 minutes, we were only able to see a handful of the many presentations.
One of the performances that we enjoyed was the improv group, Blue Blanket Improv, out of Half Moon Bay. The photograph above is of the founder of the group, Marc Samuels.
The Eastside Arts Alliance presented an excerpt from The Sisyphus Syndrome, a jazz opera by Amiri Baraka, music composed by , David Murray. The actors were excellent. They had very interesting sets, a dramatic story, and good music. All in all, a wonderful performance.
Though we saw small pieces of other groups productions, the only other presentation we saw in its entirety was the SF Buffoons‘, The Hasheesh Eater. We thoroughly enjoyed this irreverent play for adults only, billed as a psychedelic Victorian drama in late-night San Francisco 1863.
To see more photos from yesterday’s festivities, go to my Flickr page, click on Events, and then go to the SF Theater Fest sets.