1997: Killing Time

35th Season of Free Park Shows! "...a bona fide S.F. Mime Troupe outdoor show - smart, funny, refreshingly political and deftly performed." --- Rob Hurwitt San Francisco Examiner   "...KILLING TIME serves up plenty of delicious satiric poison..." ---Carol Lloyd SF Weekly   Temping had never been this weird... "The San Francisco Mime Troupe is back in fine rabble-rousing form...high-energy show..." ---Brad Rosenstein The San Francisco Bay Guardian   "(KILLING TIME) is angry, confused, funny and conflicted, just like life in the 90's..." ---Jim Carnes The Sacramento Bee Longtime temp-worker Jacob, pushing 30 and beginning to fear destiny has passed him by, cites Clinton's continuing concessions to the right as proof that politics is bunk. Now he is being haunted by a manic bag lady who claims to be in touch with the President. Meanwhile, a mysterious string of E-mail taunts turn the Man from Hope's sneaking fear that history will remember him as a bad joke to terrified certainty, and provokes him to a desperate attempt at breaking capital's chokehold on the capitol. When each finds himself mano-a-mano with "Hacksaw" Jack Belch, king of corporate downsizers, will Clinton have the stuff? Will Jacob seize the time? PROGRAM PHOTOS REVIEW BY SF EXAMINER'S Robert Hurwitt REVIEW BY SF CHRONICLE'S Steven Winn With federal funding reduced by the continuing rightwing attack on the National Endowment for the Arts, grants provide only 46% of the cost of the SFMT's park season. Our admission-free shows depend on your generous donations.  Art by: Spain

 

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