FSM explores the 1964 Free Speech Movement at UC Berkeley as lived then and seen now by participants on all sides, just in time for its 50th anniversary.
Call it the anti-HAIR and the anti-BIG CHILL: these kids have haircuts and their later selves are not chilled – just older, maybe wiser or maybe a little world-weary. FSM takes 60’s politics seriously. It celebrates the joy, moral purpose, newborn freedom and occasional absurdity of being young, part of a movement and passionately political, from a distance that takes account of the consequences.
The show - produced by Stagebridge Senior Theatre - has had some great support from the Bay Area theatre community. FSM was developed through a workshop at the 2013 Bay Area Playwrights Festival and the 2014 Ground Floor program at Berkeley Repertory Theatre,
We've had help from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Rex Foundation, the East Bay Fund for Artists, Fleishhacker Foundation, The Mario Savio Memorial Fund of Tides Foundation, and Stephen M. Silberstein. But we're still short of what we need, so we're turning to you, dear friends: please help us bring the show to our community this Fall! Your donations help us support our team of talented artists.
Book by Joan Holden
Music & Lyrics by Bruce Barthol & Daniel Savio
Directed by Erin Merritt
Scrumbly Koldewyn, Musical Director
Performances:
September 20 & 21 at Brava Theater Center in San Francisco
September 27 & 28 at The Thrust Stage at Berkeley Repertory Theatre
Tickets available at www.brownpapertickets.com.
For more information, visit www.stagebridge.org/fsm.
