September 25 - October 18, 2015, Thurs-Sun Previews: Fri-Sat, September 25 - 26 Opening night: Sun, September 27 All performances start at 8pm.
Starring Mugwumpin founders Joe Estlack and Christopher White, and directed by Susannah Martin, Blockbuster Season is a furious send-up of Hollywood disaster flicks.
Giant asteroids, nuclear Armageddon, zombie invasions are just a few of the more spectacular ways human civilization may come to an end, and Hollywood has made a specialty of serving up variants of the same stories and characters again and again: the panicked masses of humanity in disarray and the high testosterone heroes who save them with a mix of chutzpah, high-ammunition artillery and mano a mano combat.
Mugwumpin dramatizes these familiar cliches with a critical eye aimed at exposing their darker implications and real-world cognates. New York Mayor Rudolf Guiuliani after 9/11 and George W. Bush after Hurricane Katrina are each conjured over the course of a play that offers an alternative ending to the classic disaster flick narrative. Does survival depend more on competition or cooperation? Blockbuster Season suggests a way out of the fiery explosion that doesn't involve a commanding leader or superhero.
Estlack, together with White one of the three original founders of Mugwumpin, returns to the company after leading roles in Jerusalem, Promises, Promises and Stupid Fucking Bird at SF Playhouse The Lyons at Aurora Theatre and Bonnie and Clyde at Shotgun Players. White returns to the stage after leading the company through its tenth anniversary season featuring revivals of This is All I Need and Super:Anti:Reluctant a series of theater salons, workshops and symposia and the company's first performance installation, titled Luster, at the Asian Art Museum. Other recent credits of White's include Campo Santo's The River, Shotgun Player's Our Town and the neo-noir The Other Barrio, featured in the 2015 SF Independent Film Festival.
Blockbuster Season is a co-production with Intersection for the Arts, celebrating its 50th anniversary this year.
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