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Stage Left: A Story of Theater in San Francisco
- Director: Austin Forbord
- Producer: Jeremy Briggs; Paul Festa
CGiii Comment
A self-congratulatory appraisal of San Francisco's theatre...
Absurdists, surrealists and, the avant-garde...all pretending to be revolutionaries.
One thing that is very clear...they all took themselves a little too seriously. They still do!
It's interesting...to those who would rather watch 'revolutionaries' rather than be one.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
A history of theater in San Francisco, beginning with the founding of the San Francisco Actor's Workshop in 1952 and extending through 2010. The film traces a tradition of experimentation and political consciousness that are the hallmarks of San Francisco's theater legacy. It argues that the Bay Area theater community is unique and has had a lasting influence on theater throughout the world.
Stage Left brings together the directors, actors, composers and playwrights, the artists and the eccentrics that made the Bay Area theater scene an experimental, multidisciplinary and political hotbed: Herbert Blau (Actor's Workshop), R.G. Davis (The Mime Troupe), Bill Irwin (Pickle Family Circus), Robin Williams (actor); Oskar Eustis (Eureka Theater); Scrumbly Koldewyn (the Cockettes) and many more.
Cast & Characters
William Ball as Himself;
Misha Berson as Herself;
Herbert Blau as Himself;
Lenny Bruce as Himself;
Peter Coyote as Himself;
Angela Davis as Herself;
R.G. Davis as Himself;
Oskar Eustis as Himself;
Lawrence Ferlinghetti as Himself;
John Fisher as Himself;
Allen Ginsberg as Himself;
Marga Gomez as Narrator;
Anna Halprin as Herself;
Joan Holden as Herself;
Geoff Hoyle as Himself