Following productions in Tempe, Houston and New York, San Francisco becomes the latest setting for a night of live performance designed to find the poetry in bureaucracy, the architecture of power and the comedy of procedure. This evening of "performed participatory democracy" takes the seemingly mundane goings on of a city council meeting and invites you to be part of the show. At each performance, audience members have the option to participate as Councilors who conduct the meeting Speakers who are called on to give testimony Supporters who stand in support of others or as Bystanders who observe the proceedings (so it's OK to just come and watch, too).
The brainchild of playwright, actor and teacher Aaron Landsman, and Obie-award winners, director Mallory Catlett and director, designer and performer Jim Findlay, City Council Meeting ponders what draws participants to the process in the first place, and then teases apart the inherent drama and inadvertent comedy that occurs when individuals with conflicting goals congregate in a single room and attempt to get their way.
The San Francisco edition focuses in on the city's rich history as a center for activism, and is created through collaboration with a diverse range of San Franciscans including students, politicians, activists and artists. One featured collaborator is local choreographer and director Erika Chong Shuch.
Presented by Z Space in Association with Erika Chong Shuch Performance Project and Intersection for the Arts.
Funded in part by the New England Foundation for the Arts' National Theater Project, with lead funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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