{"id":423094,"date":"2026-08-03T23:32:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T23:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/423094\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T23:32:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T23:32:06","slug":"san-francisco-mime-troupe-performs-in-santa-cruz-santa-cruz-sentinel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/423094\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco Mime Troupe performs in Santa Cruz \u2013 Santa Cruz Sentinel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Actors Keiko Shimosato Carreiro, Jed Parsario and Chloris Li performed Sunday afternoon at Laurel Park outside of the London Nelson Community Center as the San Francisco Mime Troupe presents the second of two weekend shows in Santa Cruz. The troupe is currently traveling throughout Northern California through Sept. 7 presenting its musical \u201cWreckage\u201d in San Francisco, Ukiah, Cotati, the East Bay, Mill Valley, Santa Cruz, San Jose, Palo Alto and Davis. Founded in 1959 by R.G. Davis as an experimental project of the Actors\u2019 Workshop, the San Franciso Mime Troupe presents humorous original political theater that is staged outdoors and for free. The group is a collective and is self-described on its website as \u201ca democratically run, multi-ethnic, multi-generational, multi-cultural, gender-balanced theater of social justice that by its very existence sustains a vision of community governance of, by, and for the people.\u201d While the name of the troupe includes the word \u201cmime\u201d its productions include significant dialogue and singing. The troupe says it uses the term mime, \u201cin its classical and original definition, the exaggeration of daily life in story and song. It is a form of popular theater that is as old as the marketplace itself. From the ancient Greek and Roman farces to the Renaissance commedia dell\u2019arte to modern Chinese Opera, using archetypes comically to illustrate people\u2019s issues is a time-honored worldwide tradition. Our broadly drawn characters are instantly recognizable allowing the audience to immediately engage in the action. Our work is political satire and anything but silent.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Actors Keiko Shimosato Carreiro, Jed Parsario and Chloris Li performed Sunday afternoon at Laurel Park outside of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423095,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[7,967,584,181,23,6682,180,88,90,89,1498,3234,420],"class_list":["post-423094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-california","tag-entertainment","tag-events","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-music-and-concerts","tag-newsletter","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-santa-cruz","tag-santa-cruz-county","tag-things-to-do"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}