If you're a theater fan, mark your calendars: there's plenty to do when it comes to stage performances in San Francisco this week, from monologues about cultural and geographic borders to two-minute plays.
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'Border People'
From the event description:
"Border People" is based on conversations and interviews from the South Bronx housing projects courtyards, refugee safe houses on the northern border with Canada and travels along the southwestern border and into Mexico. Featuring 11 monologues of people who live on or across borders both geographic and cultural, "Border People" is an intimate, raw, poignant, funny look at the borders we all negotiate in our everyday lives.
When: Wednesday, May 15, 8 p.m.
Where: The Marsh San Francisco MainStage Theater, 1062 Valencia St.
Price: $12.50
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'Bakersfield Mist'
From the event description:
Maude, a middle-aged, unemployed bartender from Bakersfield, California, purchased a painting from a local thrift store for only a few bucks. Now she's convinced the painting is a long-lost Jackson Pollock masterpiece worth millions. Lionel, an expert from New York City, flies over to her trailer park home to authenticate the artwork, but what they discover is far beyond what either could have ever imagined. Who ultimately gets to decide what is true and what is false?
When: Thursday, May 16, 8 p.m.
Where: Phoenix Theatre San Francisco, 414 Mason St.
Price: $20
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'The Speakeasy: Age of Scofflaws'
From the event description:
Behind a secret door near the intersection of North Beach and Chinatown lies a dimly lit subterranean realm teeming with colorful characters and overlapping storylines. This is "The Speakeasy," an interactive theatrical experience that'll transport you to a 1920s San Francisco watering hole full of bootleggers, bouncers, war veterans and barflies. As you wander throughout the multi-room environment, sipping cocktails, playing casino games, or simply observing, you'll stumble across all manner of conversations and interactions as a complex narrative web unfolds.
When: Friday, May 17, 7:30 p.m.
Where: The Speakeasy, a discreet location near the intersection of North Beach and Chinatown
Price: $69
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'The Infinite Wrench'
From the event description:
The San Francisco Neo-Futurists are thrilled to present "The Infinite Wrench," as part of an ongoing and ever-changing attempt to shift the conventions of live performance and speak to audiences, including those unreached or unmoved by traditional theater. "The Infinite Wrench" is a mechanism that unleashes a barrage of two-minute plays that'll never ask you to suspend your disbelief.
When: Friday, May 17, 9 p.m.
Where: PianoFight, 144 Taylor St.
Price: $9
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