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The 2008 Season Premiere is July 4th, 2008, in Dolores Park.
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The Mime Troupe is an ensemble theater, the artistic director is the collective.

Read the bios of this year's collaborators.

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CRITICS SAY
"Anyone concerned about the state of global politics-- and about the state of political humor -- should listen to the Mime troupe's message."
The New York Times

"...have the famed company declared California's official state theater. Who else?"
San Diego Union

"The San Francisco Mime Troupe is America's oldest and finest street theater... more professional than most of our presumably professional companies."
The New York Post

"You're never only watching a political theater piece, but rather a double barreled re-invention of politics and theater at once."
The Boston Globe

"What makes political theater work? Passion, anger and humor"
Albuquerque Journal

"When you hear people say theater is dying -- tell them about the San Francisco Mime Troupe."
The Ohio Plain Dealer

"Politics is not the only reason to see the Mime Troupe. Those who enjoy theater, farce, Monty Python, musical comedy or even urban politics will enjoy the show."
News-Leader, Florida (2000, City for Sale)

"Mime Troupe puts on its best show in years...the Mime Troupe has come up with some canny and mordant takes on San Francisco's gleaming gentrification."
The San Francisco Chronicle (1999, City for Sale)

"Part savagely acute political satire, part living newspaper and all broad, tuneful and timely musical comedy, 'Killing' is the Mime Troupe's most direct grapple yet with the war in Iraq. It's very funny and equally politically engaged...in the best tradition of agitprop theater."
The San Francisco Chronicle (2007, Making a Killing)

"'Eating It' is nutritious entertainment -- timely, funny, provocative, sharply staged and beautifully performed. It just goes to show the continual wonders of splicing hot political issues with the unique skills of the San Francisco Mime Troupe."
San Francisco Examiner (2000, Eating It)

"Energized by the resurgent right...the inexhaustible purveyors of agit-prop musical comedy have responded with their sharpest, funniest and most exhilarating show in years."
The San Francisco Chronicle (2001, 1600 Transylvania Avenue)

"Mr. Smith Goes to Obscuristan is one of the funniest, best constructed and cleverly produced cartoons of political satire the Mime Troupe has produced in several years."
Bay Area Reporter (2002, Mr. Smith Goes to Obscuristan)

"It's laced with sharply pointed humor. It's fiercely politically engaged."
The San Francisco Chronicle (2005, Doing Good)"