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SF Station's event picks this week
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Through Wed Aug 13
Myth & Magic
Lolley is a Louisville, Kentucky-based artist, animator, and comic-book maker whose two-dimensional characters suggest a fanciful but complex narrative. While many of her peers reflect upbringings with anime and comics, Lolley’s works are crafty, painterly, and timeless. Allusions range from fairy tales to Little Golden Books. In addition to galleries across the United States, her dreamy yet familiar works have appeared in indie-comics anthologies and album covers.
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Through Sat Aug 23
For Cummings, last call is a state of existence where the perpetual desire to nurse a drink functions as an antidote for the pain associated with a more sober experience of contemporary life. In an era of continuous bad news, Cummings argues, many dangerously choose diversion over engagement. Cummings' zombie-youth admonish the viewer that without awareness and action, we may soon face a political reality that is devoid of choice, where our voices are rendered silent, and we too resemble the zombie characters of horror films.
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Sat Jul 12 - Sat Aug 16
The show will feature new fiction by local writers Victor Martinez, Peter Plate, and Michelle Tea, and new photography by Gregory Halpern, Whitney Hubbs, and Sean McFarland. The prose and photographs, completed and shot in late May and early June 2008, aim to chronicle an extremely timely and distinct artistic view of San Francisco ranging from its gloomy urban underbelly to its quiet, startling beauty.
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Tue Jul 22 - Sat Aug 16
Written by Stephen King adapted for stage by Simon Moore
When best-selling novelist Paul Sheldon crashes his car on a snowy Colorado road. He is "saved" by Annie Wilkes, a former nurse and unstable recluse who also happens to be his "number one fan". Drugged and at the mercy of Annie's "care", Paul soon learns what happens when he fails to please his public.
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Fri Jul 18 - Sat Aug 9
Roger Rees' Solo Show
What You Will is the one-man everything there is "to be or not to be" about William Shakespeare: the greatest soliloquies ever written next to side-splitting accounts of the funniest disasters ever perpetrated on the stage. There's Romeo, Juliet's foolish Nurse, gory Macbeth, Hamlet, and the oh-so-tragic Richard II, joined by the likes of Charles Dickens, James Thurber, Noël Coward, and Stevie Wonder.
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Through Sun Jul 20
By Keith Bunin
Hailed as “poignant and real” by Variety and “intriguing . . . engaging” by The New York Times, THE BUSY WORLD IS HUSHED is a thought-provoking, moving look at religion, faith, and the complexities of the human heart. Episcopalian minister and bible scholar Hannah contracts a ghostwriter to help her pen a book about a newly discovered gospel. As they set to work putting her thoughts into print, her troubled gay son, fresh from his latest attempt to find himself, wanders back into her life.
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Fri Jul 4 - Mon Sep 1
San Francisco Mime Troupe's
at parks all over the Bay Area (2pm) Theater
It’s Election Day in small town America! The Heartland - apple pie, general stores, hard work. But in Bluebird, Kansas, apple pie has been replaced with government cheese, general stores have made way for pawn shops, and hard work on the job has become the hard work of survival. Littered with a crumbling New Deal infrastructure and its monuments to a feisty union past forgotten, Bluebird is ready to slip into oblivion. But what if a small town in a Red State found itself at the forefront of a political fight?
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Sun Jul 27
One-day extravaganza of 100 shows on 14 stages
The San Francisco Theater Festival is the largest theater event of the year with 100 shows on 14 stages on one day. Performances of all styles: Shakespeare, musical theater, comedy, drama, new works, solo performances, children's shows, improv, etc. All performances are free and all venues are within a short walk.
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