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69 Moments of Life
Actor, You're Killing Me
Air Tight Security
Almost True Adventures ...
Amazing Improvised Musical
Animal Farm
Ballerina on a Horse
Beautiful Man
Berserker
Caffe di Amore or ...
Check the Box
Clearing Hedges
Corned Beef
Countless
Crime & Variations
Death Blow II: The British ...
Demon Pope
Diagnosis: Jew Pain ...
Disco Prophecies
Ethan's Gift
Far From Springer
Fixed Boundry
Forty Love
Got Water
I Can't Believe They're Not Oriental!
Idiot Machine ...
In Cahoots
John Muir: Watch, Pray, Fight
Late Night Talk Show
Ludlow and Canal
Magic at the Fringe
Man 1, Bank 0
Marx in Soho
Mixed Signal
Mother: A Modern Buddhist ...
Naked Inquisition
nEO - urrealists present ...
Neon's Crazy Blue
Nharcolepsy
Original Action Pack
Park - N - Ride
Passages
Sandwich
Scabaret!
Searching for God in Kerala
Seventh Game of the World Series
Shadow Kissers
Strobe Vision
This World is Not My Home
Total Improvisation - ...
Train Stories
Tripping on the Equator ...
Twinspeak
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Sharmon J. Hilfinger and Joan McMillen BootStrap Foundation Palo Alto, CA 60 minutes Musical Theatre Children over the age of 12 will enjoy this show. $8.00 |
Far in the future, water is so scarce it's gold, and the usual adolescent struggles are complicated by having to compete for rare resources-- or is it so far away? Developed with teen actors, "got water?" is a biting, funny vision of an arid landscape, with new cultural rules for who drinks and who doesn't. An original, thought provoking piece that will make you think before you drink.
got water? is performed by fifteen teenagers from the San Francisco Peninsula. Many of the cast participated in BootStrap Foundationâs Teen Improvisation Workshop last summer which focused improvisations on environmental issues. The improvisations were used as the basis for this original script by Sharmon J. Hilfinger with music by Joan McMillen.
Hilfinger and McMillen first teamed together in 2000 to create Imaginal Disks: A Tale of Transformation. This intimate drama with music received excellent reviews during its September 2001 run at the Mountain View Center for Performing Arts. It is a coming of age story that tackles issues of how we manipulate nature, including human nature, to fit our cultural desires. Palo Alto Weekly reported, "Imaginal Disks floats like a butterfly, stings like a bee!" and the San Mateo County Times hailed it as a "must-see!" In their new work, got water?, Hilfinger and McMillen continue to examine our relationship to nature in the face of scarcity and pollution.
Bear Capron, director of the Teen Improvisation Workshop and got water? has been teaching drama, directing and acting in plays professionally for the past thirty years, from San Francisco to Amsterdam where he headed his own theater company for many years and toured western Europe in a comic duo, The Bamsisters. He now heads the arts department at Castilleja School in Palo Alto. Keep your eyes out on Union Square for some of Capron's "transparent theatre" that is likely to happen by the got water? cast during the Fringe weekends!
BootStrap Foundation was founded in 1998 to help artists bootstrap their way to visibility. Our mission focuses on showcasing new works and honoring theatre professionals by paying for their work. Previous professional productions include, A History of Things That Never Happened at the Magic Theatre, San Francisco, 1999, and Imaginal Disks at the Mountain View Center for Performing Arts, 2001. During 2000, BootStrap ran a pilot of Artists At Work, an innovative program in which artists were paid to do their work on site at a corporation. The program was designed to enrich the corporate environment, support artists, and develop a rapport between artists and patrons.
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ACTORS THEATRE STAGE 2 - 533 Sutter Street (Upstairs)
SATURDAY 6 1:00 PM
FRIDAY 7 4:00 PM
SATURDAY 13 7:00 PM
SUNDAY 14 4:00 PM