Mime Troupe
Welcome to the first full week of the school year :,(. The SF Mime Troupe, a political travelling theatre company performed its current show "Schooled" as part of its 57th season in Davis and Sacramento this past weekend. Rocket talks about the expereince of helping the troupe set up for their Davis performance and seeing the show in Sac. Their entire set and stage are loaded and unloaded from a single Mime Troupe van with their quintessential red star on the side. This show focuses on the issue of corporate interests in the public school system and the merits and detriments of technology. The storyline mirrors this current election cycle with three different characters representing Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton, and Donald Trump. These three teachers all run against eachother for the position of school president with their competing ideologies of schooling. One thinks that schools ought to teach students how to be good citizens, the other how to succeed as entrepreneurs in an increasingly competitive world, and the last to make education fun with technology while securing a market for his shoddy business. Rocket also talks about "Don't Breathe" a new thriller about a group of kids who break into an old blind veteran's house expecting to literally rob his blind. To their surprise, he's buff and fast and things go downhill for the kids real fast. Rocket reads an excerpt from the speech Light on the Indian Situation by Carlos Montezuma. This show features "School" by Nirvana, a musical excerpt from Schooled, and "Breathe In, Breathe Out" by Set It Off for the new movie.