Event

Freedomland San Francisco Mime Troupe

Special Tickets available: Arena Theater is proud to present the SF Mime Troupe, now in its 56th season! You can support the Mime Troupe and get your favorite seat in the house: buy a special $30 sponsor ticket and call our office at 707 882-3272 to pick your seat.

Inspired by recent events the Tony Award-winning SF Mime Troupe presents "Freedomland"
A door is blown off its hinges! Into a blasted room of scarred walls and shattered windows, armed with M-16's, America's bravest duck and dodge for cover, finally training their deadly gun sights on... an old black man watching TV on his couch? This isn't Baghdad or Kandahar it's home, and for ex-Black Panther Malcolm Haywood it's just another wrong door police raid in the War on Drugs. And for him, his neighbor Luis (an undocumented immigrant,) and the rest of their neighbors, it's worse than a war zone. Especially now, as the Mayor and the Police Chief ramp up the fear, the funding - and their shiny new tank - to fight the newest drug threat to America... worse than weed, meth, coke, crack, or crank, it's... SNORF!! So of course Malcolm is horrified when his son, Tyler, returns from the army - just as the War on SNORF - and the Black and Brown community - begins!

What happened to "innocent until proven guilty"? Are the police out of control? Or is Luis actually a SNORF-lord? And can Malcolm convince his son that it is safer to re-up and fight overseas than to try to survive here at home, in Freedomland?
FREEDOMLAND written by Michael Gene Sullivan. Music & lyrics by Ira Marlowe. Mime Troupe performers Hugo E Carbajal, Lisa Hori-Garcia, Michael Gene Sullivan and first-time troupe performer George P. Scott

The Arena Theater bar amd snack stand will be open.