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Comments (0) By Lily Janiak Wednesday, Sep 19 2012

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United Nations Plaza

Market
San Francisco, CA 94102

Category: Parks/Outdoors

Region: Union Square/ Financial District

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Footloose Artistic Director Mary Alice Fry has done the conventional theater thing before, where you “sit there and wait for people to come in and be polite.” But she “just gets really tired of it!” Her new show, Honeycomb Zone, which she’s presenting with Theatecture as part of the 24 Days of Central Market Arts Festival, is geared toward audiences who feel the same way. The free show, staged in UN Plaza, is meant to attract everyone around: Twitterers, City Hall employees, the food truck crowd, the homeless, public transit users. Its initial draw, according to Fry, is the hexagonal honeycomb-like set pieces, designed by Cindi Valverde, which audiences use to build hives. “Every time,” says Fry, “it’s completely different, the way people shape them. There’s something about the way they fit together and surprise you and play with your imagination.” While the giant, collective K’NEX-like building is going on, performers from martial arts, acrobatics, modern jazz, and flamenco “tell the story of two brothers who are seeking shelter,” says Fry, all to live, original music composed by Bob Marsh and the Free Reed Vibrating Society. According to Fry, we live in an era when “people are taking it outdoors.” Theater, she believes, should follow suit, especially if it’s not a protest but “a celebration.”
Tuesdays. Starts: Oct. 2. Continues through Oct. 16, 2012