Dan Hoyle’s
TINGS DEY HAPPEN
RETURNS for a limited run!
No Extensions!

March 20 - April 19
Thursday & Friday at 8pm
Saturday at 8:30pm
Marsh Main Stage

"Engrossing, Funny...Tour De Force" -SF Chronicle

“Riveting…Funny and Poignant…In the spirit of theatrical journalism exemplified by Anna Deavere Smith, Mr. Hoyle is both a first-rate reporter and actor.”
--Wilborn Hampton, New York Times

“Entertaining and Eye-Opening...bristles with keen impressions of life and death.”
–Marilyn Stasio, Variety

TINGS DEY HAPPEN is a riveting adventure story, a geopolitical tour de force about the year Dan spent in Nigeria on a Fulbright Scholarship, exploring the West African oil frontier. The Niger Delta, supplier of 10% of America’s oil, has been targeted as the “new Middle East” of oil security and is an extremely dangerous place. Dan’s base was Port Harcourt - the same malarial swamp where disease and attacks from jealous warriors once killed the British and where now a second generation of warlords blow up Chevron pipelines to steal the oil and militants kidnap oil workers. Some oil companies have had to shut down their operations altogether.

Dan traveled alone around the swamps, befriending militants, warlords, diplomats, activists and prostitutes. Even the U.S. ambassador sought him out to find out what was going on. He portrays all these characters in the story.

A native San Franciscan, Dan Hoyle is also the creator of two other hit shows, both performed in his unique form of journalistic theater: “CIRCUMNAVIGATOR” and “FLORIDA 2004: THE BIG BUMMER.” The San Francisco Chronicle says Hoyle has “a gift for mime and vocal mimicry that recalls solo artists John Leguizamo, Sarah Jones, or Lily Tomlin.”

Deborah Gwinn & Jim Cave in
ROMEO and JULIET &
OTHER DUETS

March 6 - 29, 2008
Thursday thru Saturday at 8pm
Marsh Studio Theater (upstairs)

“Romeo and Juliet & Other Duets” is a re-visioning of works by William Shakespeare, Miguel de Cervantes and Eugene Ionesco.  Deb and Jim perform to music, using silent acting and movement to explore the relationship between men and women. A bit like silent movies, these are lush performances, incorporating colorful costumes and all kinds of surprising props. As each piece develops, Deb always finds room for a little ballet with Jim. The two of them share a theatrical repertoire of gesture, grace and heartbreak: a kind of a stroll down the Boulevard of Broken Dreams.

Deb and Jim have been working together since the early '80's, when they met as members of the Blake Street Hawkeyes.  This series of duets continues a collaboration into the classic stories of tragedy and romance, which started with their presentation of Don Quixote at The Marsh in 1996. 

Over the years, Deb has played all the lovers in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” Kate the Shrew, Cleopatra, Miranda (as a handkerchief), Ariel (as a flyswatter) as well as Juliet. And Jim has been seen as Romeo, Petruchio (vacuuming the audience to the tune of Leonard Cohen's I'm Your Man), Polonius and Puck. 

Deb & Jim have their own lives and do lots of other things, together and apart.  But whether it’s a story about old love or new love, unrequited love or platonic love, lost love or puppy love, Deb and Jim will show you how its done.  Whatever they have to say, whether as Romeo and Juliet or Don Q and Sancho P, they think it is best said (silently) in a duet.

Jeff Greenwald’s
STRANGE TRAVEL SUGGESTIONS

April 3 - 26, 2008
Thursday thru Saturday at 8pm


“The last time Jeff Greenwald’s roulette wheel of a one-man show had a run at The Marsh, I went and laughed my head off. The Marsh is a small place, so Greenwald obligingly handed my head back to me.” 
-Jon Carroll, San Francisco Chronicle

"Looking for global intrigue, great laughs, and high drama? Go traveling with Jeff Greenwald and you'll find it all -- on one stage."  -Wes "Scoop" Nisker

STRANGE TRAVEL SUGGESTIONS is a series of improvised monologues inspired by the vagaries of wanderlust. “I want this show to evoke the thrill of a journey,” says Greenwald. “The unexpected encounters and diversions that make world travel so wild and illuminating.” To achieve this, he asks audience members step onto the stage and spin a huge, colorful Wheel of Fortune. Round and 'round it spins, and where it stops, the story begins.  Greenwald never knows which tales he is going to tell in the course of an evening—and the audience embarks on this expedition with him, from one spin to the next, as partner and traveling companion.

Greenwald draws from 30 years of travels for his stories. He has visited six continents, working as a writer, artist, performer and photographer. He is the author of five best-selling travel books, including “Shopping for Buddhas,” “The Size of the World” and “Scratching the Surface: Impressions of Planet Earth from Hollywood to Shiraz.”

STRANGE TRAVEL SUGGESTIONS has enjoyed three previous sold out runs at The Marsh since its 2003 premier.