Edris Cooper-Anifowoshe, Edward P- Jones, Joel Mullennix, local theater, Margo Hall, plays, theater review, Velina Brown, Word for Word Edris Cooper-Anifowoshe, Edward P- Jones, Joel Mullennix, local theater, Margo Hall, plays, theater review, Velina Brown, Word for Word

Wonderful women in Word for Word's Aunt Hagar

What you remember from Word for Word's production of All Aunt Hagar's Children, a full theatrical adaptation of the short story by Edward P. Jones, are the women. Such women. They make an impression on the audience the way they make an impression the story's narrator, a nameless young man who returned to his native Washington, D.C., nine months ago after serving in the Korean War.

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Eugenie Chan, local theater, Michael Gene Sullivan, San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Mime Troupe, Tanya Shaffer, theater review, Velina Brown, Wilma Bonet Eugenie Chan, local theater, Michael Gene Sullivan, San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Mime Troupe, Tanya Shaffer, theater review, Velina Brown, Wilma Bonet

SF Mime Troupe rocks the boat in Ripple Effect

I must admit that for a while there, I ceased looking forward to the July Fourth debut of the latest San Francisco Mime Troupe show at Dolores Park. The productions were feeling slack or worse, forced. The writing was off and the politics came off as strident or silly rather than relevant or even entertaining.Happy to report that this year's show, Ripple Effect, is a major improvement.

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