San Francisco Mime Troupe Celebrates 50th Anniversary with Troupers Screening

The Tony Award winning San Francisco Mime Troupe will continue its 50th anniversary celebration with a series of fall exhibitions and events in San Francisco and around the Bay Area commemorating the company’s milestone. The company’s Too Big To Fail, a song and dance satire, is currently touring throughout Northern California until September 27.

The San Francisco Main Library will host a retrospective entitled Free in(g) the Parks – The San Francisco Mime Troupe vs. The Censors, 1963 to 1969, October 24, 2009-February 1, 2010, which is free and open to the public in the library’s Steve Silver Beach Blanket Babylon Music Room. Also at the library, Radical Theater Revisited, November 1, will be a discussion with the founders of the Festival of Radical Theatre in the Koret Auditorium.

As part of the Mill Valley Film Festival, there will also be a screening of Glenn Silber and Claudia Vianello’s Troupers, October 8-18, which documents the tribulations and successes of the San Francisco Mime Troupe on the road during what was then the group’s 25th anniversary. Screening times will be announced at a later date.

For more information, call 415.285.1717 or visit www.sfmt.org or sfpl.lib.ca.us.