Download e-book for kindle: The San Francisco Mime Troupe Reader by Susan Vaneta Mason

By Susan Vaneta Mason

ISBN-10: 0472068423

ISBN-13: 9780472068425

ISBN-10: 047209842X

ISBN-13: 9780472098422

The San Francisco Mime Troupe Reader is a long-overdue choice of a few of the most interesting political satires created and produced by way of the Tony Award-winning corporation over the past 40 years.

It can also be a heritage of the corporate that used to be the theater of the counterculture circulation within the Sixties and that, opposed to all odds, has controlled to outlive the usually adverse financial system for the humanities within the usa. The performs chosen are different, representing a number of the Troupe's most interesting exhibits, and the book's illustrations trap a few of the Troupe's so much memorable moments.

These hilarious, edgy, and imaginitive scripts are observed via insightful observation via theater historian and critic Susan Vaneta Mason, who has been following the Troupe for greater than 3 many years. The Mime Troupe Reader will interact and entertain a variety of audiences, not just common readers but additionally these attracted to the historical past of yankee social protest, the counterculture of the 1960s-particularly the San Francisco scene-and the evolution of latest political theater. it is going to additionally attract the legions of Troupe fanatics who go back each year to work out them get up opposed to one other social or company Goliath.

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