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	Festive Revolutions
		The San Francisco Mime Troupe is a modern link in the long history of public performances that have a merry air but have a voice of political protest and social comment.
		In a style that is festive and a spirit that is revolutionary the Mime Troupe has relied on popular theatre forms to address timely political and social issues.
		In the Mime Troupe the use of stereotypes and reliance upon colorful festivity are diverse strategies for dodging censorship.
	www.upress.state.ms.us /books/f/festive_revolutions.html (309 words)

	Reclaiming San Francisco: History, Politics, Culture
		Reclaiming San Francisco: History, Politics, Culture is an anthology of fresh appraisals of the contrarian spirit of the city.
		But there are other, unofficial, San Francisco stories, often shrouded in myth and in danger of being forgot-ten, and they are told here: stories of speculators and land-grabbers, immi-grants and minorities, sailors and waterfront workers, and poets, artists, and neighborhood activists.
		San Francisco is not alone in being transformed according to the dictates of the global economy.
	www.shapingsf.org /official/book/book.html (315 words)

	Ensemble Theater Festival — San Francisco Mime Troupe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The San Francisco Mime Troupe does not do pantomime, it is 'mime' in the ancient sense: to mimic.
		As satirists, SFMT seeks to make you laugh at the absurdities of contemporary life and at the same time, see their causes.
		A big part of SFMT's mission is to combat racial fragmentation by doing work that crosses racial and national borders, that by its very existence sustains a vision of multi-cultural, multi-national community: plays that not only have multi-racial plots, but embody many points of view.
	www.ensembletheaters.net /sfmtevnt.htm (172 words)

	San Francisco Mime Troupe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The San Francisco Mime Troupe (mime is pronounced as 'meme') is an award winning theatre of political satire, which performs free shows in various parks in the San Francisco Bay Area and around California.
		The Troupe does not, however, perform silent mime, but each year creates an original musical comedy that combines aspects of Commedia dell'Arte, melodrama, and broad farce with topical political themes.
		Davis left the Troupe when it re-formed as a Collective, the members of which operate as the Artistic Director.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/San_Francisco_Mime_Troupe (749 words)

	Chronology of San Francisco Rock 1965-1969
		Mime Troupe appeared at Fluxfest at Longshoremen’s Hall.
		San Francisco police raid the Grateful Dead’s Haight-Ashbury house.
		San Francisco voters defeated a $5.7 million measure to acquire the Cliff House and Sutro Baths for a park.
	www.sfmuseum.org /hist1/rock.html (2757 words)

	Tucson Weekly: Mime Games (September 30 - October 6, 1999)
		WHEN I FIRST saw [the San Francisco Mime Troupe] in the '60s, it was like I wanted to run away and join...them," says Barclay Goldsmith, director of Tucson's Borderlands Theater.
		The Mime Troupe is known for its 40-year history of producing plays that, as its mission statement says, dramatize social issues in "small, close-up stories that make the audience feel the impact of political events on personal life." But, says Goldsmith, "their work is very joyous in the face of political issues and adversity.
		Members of the Mime Troupe were arrested in the '60s for daring to do theater deemed "too bawdy" by the city in public parks, a right they later won in court with the help of the ACLU.
	www.tucsonweekly.com /tw/1999-09-30/review2.html (727 words)

	A&L Performing Arts News Release - 2000-2001 Season
		In its usual manic—and far from silent—fashion, the Mime Troupe uses a creatively convoluted plot and pointed satire to reveal the effects of political events and corporate trends on the lives of ordinary individuals.
		The play is performed in a typically protean, Mime Troupe-style set, a cubist collage of industrial and classical architecture that evokes both Yuppie decor and ancient notions of urban centers as hubs of civility.
		For 40 years, the San Francisco Mime Troupe has been performing, with dialogue and live music, in the style of commedia dell’arte—traditional 16th century Italian street theater that uses archetypal characters to convey moral messages.
	www.artsandlectures.ucsb.edu /archive/2000-2001/pr/mime.htm (542 words)

	San Francisco Mime Troupe - Rare Concert Posters of the 60's and 70's - PosterGeist!
		San Francisco Mime Troupe presents "Electrobucks" April 21 and 22, 1979 at Beaumont School (Portland, Oregon) 8 1/2" x 14" verical flyer features illustration of three members in front of computers and typesettting, union logo at lower right hand corner.
		SF MIME TROUPE performing "Congress of the Whitewashers" a play by brect Weds and Thurs Nov 12 and 13, 1969 at EMU Ballroom in Eugene, Oregon (U of O campus).
		SF MIME TROUPE / " THE MISER "(a play by Moliere) Strange silkscreened poster for appearances of the SF MIME TROUPE in the bay area July 2 through Sept. 1966 (See Ramparts Press book "Thye S.F. Mime Troupe, The 1st 10 Years" published in 1975).
	www.postergeist.com /lists/sf_mime_troupe.shtml (537 words)

	ECR Sunday Broadcast: Interview the San Francisco Mime Troupe : SF Indymedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The SF Mime Troupe is touring throughout California and Oregon with "Veronique of the Mounties" the story of a Candian Mountie infiltrating the US to save her country from Operation: Frozen Freedom.
		The Mime Troupe will return to San Francisco to perform at the Avalon Ballroom on October 4th, but they have show schedule in other areas near and far.
		Opinions are those of the contributors and are not necessarily endorsed by the San Francisco Indymedia.
	sf.indymedia.org /mail.php?id=1639763 (188 words)

	Columbia Foundation Awards Grant to San Francisco Mime Troupe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The San Francisco Mime Troupe creates and produces socially relevant theater of the highest professional quality, staging plays that dramatize the operation of giant forces in small, closeup stories that convey the impact of political events on personal life.
		In 1963 the Park and Recreation Commission denied the Mime Troupe a permit, and Davis was arrested for defying the ban.
		In 1970 the Mime Troupe became an artist-governed collective, composed of permanent members on the artistic sideactors, musicians, writers, composers, directors, designers and technicians, who create shows, make policy, assign writers and directors, and approve plans for tours, grant sources, expenditures, and special projects.
	www.emediawire.com /releases/2004/9/emw157044.htm (725 words)

	electric minds \| world wide jam \| san francisco
		In their unique rough and tumble style, broadly satiric and musical, these shows have spoken to people in their neighborhoods, and spoken to them clearly about violence, drug addiction, the misuses of power, the perils of hatred and greed, and the individual's need to be informed and responsible.
		Founded thirty-seven years ago, the San Francisco Mime Troupe has gained international recognition, and a long list of awards (including a Tony) for its edgy and humorous mix of politics, comedy, and music.
		Over the course of its existence, the Mime Troupe has consistently delivered high quality entertainment, but along with it, they have also delivered a message; a message of moral and civic responsibility.
	www.abbedon.com /electricminds/html/wwj_sf_1490.html (1044 words)

	THEATER: SAN FRANCISCO MIME TROUPE - New York Times
		COLLECTIVELY, the San Francisco Mime Troupe has disproved the George S. Kaufman dictum that satire is what closes on Saturday night.
		The Mime Troupe has returned to New York with a new political spoof, ''Factwino Meets the Moral Majority,'' at the Fashion Institute of Technology Amphitheater.
		Written by Joan Holden in collaboration with members of the company, the show is, in Mime Troupe tradition, a pop cartoon that sounds the alarm against pomposity and sanctimony.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9F02E1DA1238F93AA25756C0A964948260 (534 words)

	Hillsborough: Learn how mime troupe thinks outside the box
		For 40 years, the San Francisco Mime Troupe has brought social and political satire on topics from bio-engineered food to development of inner city areas to youth centers, activist organizations, theatre programs and labor unions around the world.
		The troupe's latest production, "City for Sale," to be performed at USF on Nov. 15, tells the story of the effects of gentrification on a San Francisco neighborhood.
		Chumley also will discuss performing with the troupe, the body as a walking archive of a person's emotional history, Masters mime courses (such as the one he teaches at USF), and his experiences teaching characterization to animators at Sony, Dreamworks and Industrial Light and Magic.
	www.sptimes.com /News/092200/news_pf/Hillsborough/Learn_how_mime_troupe.shtml (272 words)

	Metroactive Stage \| San Francisco Mime Troupe
		And it won't be the last in a nation that stubbornly associates the word mime with the white-faced antics of Marcel Marceau and his countless imitators.
		"There are different forms of mime, and in the ancient form of mime, actually, you can talk," Sullivan continues, going on to explain that the troupe derives inspiration from the tradition of commedia dell'arte, a humorous but socially conscious form of popular theater that flourished in Europe through the 18th century.
		But the Mime Troupe seems to be able to increasingly count on audience members to open their wallets and support the show.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/cruz/08.15.01/sfmimetroupe-0133.html (1137 words)

	SF Mime Troupe / 2001-2002 / Archive / Press Releases / Hope - Hope College
		But this mime troupe is anything but quiet, instead using the ancient sense of the word "mime," which means mimic.
		Endowed with a wealth of artistically inspired members, the Troupe's emphasis has remained on the ensemble not the ego, holding closely to the ideals of multiculturalism, equal wages, mentoring, and passionate popular theater.
		Hailed by "San Francisco Examiner" theater critic Robert Hurwitt as one of "the four pillars of Bay Area theater," "politically acute and theatrically inventive," the Troupe recently completed a successful East Coast tour, where "The New York Times" called the group "a mime troupe that has a lot to say."
	www.hope.edu /pr/pressreleases/content/view/full/1555 (715 words)

	The San Francisco Mime Troupe wages holy war in giddy 'Godfellas' Oakland Tribune - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The 47th annual Mime Troupe show, "Godfellas," opened on the Fourth of July under sunny skies in San Francisco's jam-packed Dolores Park.
		For the uninitiated, the Mime Troupe is a politically minded collective that spends the summer touring Bay Area parks with a free show that has nothing to do with white-faced mimes pretending they're trapped in a box or walking against a strong wind.
		The six actors, under the direction of Mime Troupe veteran Ed Helms, play two dozen roles and seem to be having as good a time as the audience.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4176/is_20060706/ai_n16532249 (769 words)

	Playbill News: Tony-winning San Fran Mime Troupe Have a City for Sale, Through Sept. 12
		Celebrating their 40 years together as a theatre group, the San Francisco Mime Troupe is presenting City for Sale, a musical about the urban housing crisis, July 4-Sept. 12, in parks across the San Fran area.
		The S.F. Mime Troupe was founded in 1959 by R.G. Davis, a member of the Actors' Workshop.
		During the mid-sixties, with San Francisco's legendary Haight-Ashbury scene in full force, Troupe members took notice of the changing society around them and began performing plays with the intent of radical political agitation -- a Brechtian mentality using theatre as agitprop.
	www.playbill.com /news/article/46751.html (538 words)

	Santa Cruz Indymedia: : Political Theatre: San Francisco Mime Troupe in SC Oct 1 & 2 Volunteers needed!
		San Francisco Mime Troupe with their performance in SC at San Lorenzo Park this weekend.
		The award winning SFMT has been performing political and socially relevent THEATRE (not Mime) for more than 40 years.
		This weekend, October 1 & 2 the SFMT is looking for 4 to 6 volunteers to help with their shows in Santa Cruz at San Lorenzo Park.
	santacruz.indymedia.org /newswire/display/18656/index.php (238 words)


		BACKGROUND: The San Francisco Mime Troupe is a touring performing arts company.
		DISCUSSION: The San Francisco Mime Troupe has requested the City act as fiscal sponsor for the Santa Cruz performances by applying for a grant from the CAC (see attachments).
		Receive donations on behalf of the Troupe and forward these donations to the Troupe.
	www.ci.santa-cruz.ca.us /cc/archives/01/2-13meeting/2-13rpt/pk987.html (367 words)

	Santa Cruz Indymedia: San Francisco Mime Troupe comes to Santa Cruz on Oct 1st and 2nd
		The San Francisco Mime Troupe is wrapping up thier season with 2 FREE performances of thier production Doing Good in Santa Cruz Oct 1st and 2nd at San Lorenzo Park.
		Fasten your seatbelts and get ready for another wild yet thought-provoking ride with the San Francisco Mime Troupe, which will open its new season with a brand new play, Doing Good, inspired by John Perkins’ Confessions of an Economic Hit Man.
		It is an epic work, in step with the Mime Troupe’s raison d’etre, laced with laughter, tragedy, snappy dialogue and live music.
	santacruz.indymedia.org /feature/display/17194/index.php (183 words)

	Menlo College News
		According to the SFMT press release: “Showdown at Crawford Gulch” is an original fable about lies, greed, and dirty double-crossing in a dusty old Texas town where the Good go bad, the Bad ain't pretty, and the Ugly get uglier.
		Bloodthirsty savages are on the warpath, and this innocent, isolated island of civilization is threatened with horrible annihilation.
		Higgins notes that this is the second consecutive year that Menlo has had the opportunity to host the SFMT, and he hopes for a large turnout during this election year.
	www.menlo.edu /news_events/story.php?sn=154 (417 words)

	Mime, san francisco mime troupe, mime encoded (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Mime Journal has been called "an excellent publication" by the New York Times, "scholarly and vivid" mime.
		MIME: check this box to report on whether or not subscriptions are set to receive Digest versions of the list as MIME mime.
		Friends of American Mime are people who have been moved by this medium and.
	www.charcoaldrawing.org /mime.html (325 words)

	Mime Troupe Bust (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		This clip has Ron Davis, the founder of the San Francisco Mime Troupe, discussing his arrest in August, 1965, in Lafayette Park in San Francisco.
		The Troupe had been banned from the City parks by the Recreation and Park Commission because they considered their work to be obscene.
		Subsequent activities to raise support and awareness for the Troupe were instrumental in the development of the Haight-Ashbury scene.
	www.diggers.org /mime_troupe_bust.htm (190 words)

	Linfield Press Releases
		Never a company to shy away from tackling large political questions, the San Francisco Mime Troupe has been producing socially relevant musical theater since 1959, a testament to the Troupe’s broad constituency and its ability to speak their thoughts.
		The San Francisco Mime Troupe has produced four hit shows in the last four years.
		Whatever the topic, the Mime Troupe addresses it using its unique combination of clever sets and costumes, lyrical songs, sharply drawn characterizations, savvy dialog and physical comedy.
	www.linfield.edu /press/detail.php?id=299 (510 words)

	Mateel Community Center (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Tony award-winning San Francisco Mime Troupe has been a Mateel favorite since the early days, and every July they bring to us a new work of satirical, political theater with live musical accompaniment.
		Never shying away from tough political and social issues, the San Francisco Mime Troupe makes you laugh at the absurdities of contemporary life while highlighting the causes for these absurdities.
		Be on the lookout for the return of the San Francisco Mime Troupe in late July 2007.
	www.mateel.org /sfmt.php (158 words)


		DISCUSSION: A representative of the SFMT presented a written proposal to the Arts Commission at their January 23, 2002 meeting.
		Enter into a contract with the San Francisco Mime Troupe to act as fiscal sponsor.
		The Commission voted unanimously to recommend to the Director of Parks and Recreation and to the City Council that the City support the SFMT’s request for 2002.
	www.ci.santa-cruz.ca.us /cc/archives/02/2-26meeting/2-26rpt/mime.htm (277 words)

	Common Ground: Backstage with the SF Mime Troupe
		On the other hand, this is the Mime Troupe, and they’ve been pulling rabbits, agit-prop vaudeville, and street theater mayhem out of their collective thespian hat for 46 years.
		SFMT was born in 1959 at the Actors Workshop when R.G. Davis began experimenting with commedia dell’arte, the street theater of the Italian Renaissance.
		Shortly after the Troupe’s first outdoor show in Washington Square Park in 1962, SF officials arrested Davis on an “obscenity” charge and banned the company from performing in public.
	www.commongroundmag.com /2005/cg3208/mime3208.html (1803 words)

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