The Marsh San Francisco Extends “Border People”
Due to popular demand, award-winning actor and playwright Dan Hoyle’scritically acclaimed hit “Border People” has been extended at The Marsh San Francisco with performances this December and into the New Year. Based on Hoyle’s conversations and interviews from the South Bronx housing projects courtyards, refugee safe houses on the Northern Border with Canada, and travels along the Southwestern Border and into Mexico, “Border People” offers an intimate, raw, poignant, funny look at the borders that many negotiate in their everyday lives. This solo show has been greeted with unanimous critical acclaim, Dan Hoyle is a true theatrical gem and this production has been praised as “a testament to the core-to-nerve ending commitment and courage” of those living on borders of any kind. “Border People”, developed with and directed by Charlie Varon, will have performances 5:00pm Saturdays December 9, 2023 – January 13, 2024, at The Marsh San Francisco, 1062 Valencia St., San Francisco.
Hoyle began work on the show after the presidential election of Donald Trump in November 2016, working with increased urgency to complete the work as the American immigration debate continued to grow more heated. “Border People” is based on Hoyle’s conversations and interviews along the Southwestern border and into Mexico, as well as at refugee safe houses on the Northern border with Canada, and in the courtyards of housing projects in the South Bronx. It offers a startling gallery of portraits of those, in Hoyle’s words, “who cross borders, geographical or cultural, by necessity or choice.” “Border People” continues Hoyle’s brand of journalistic theater that has been hailed as “riveting, poignant, deeply moving and, at the same time, hilarious”.
The Marsh has been home to several of Dan Hoyle’s (writer/performer) world premiere shows, with them receiving raves, being praised for their emotional depth and intellectual breadth.
Charlie Varon (director/co-developer) is an artist-in residence at The Marsh. He has collaborated with Dan Hoyle on many of his solo shows As a playwright and performer, Varon has also collaborated with David Ford to create hit shows including “Rush Limbaugh in Night School” (1994), “Rabbi Sam” (2009) and his latest work, “Great American Sh*t Show”, an evening of monologues that Varon and Brian Copeland have performed around the Bay Area.
For tickets ($25-$35 sliding scale, $50 and $100 reserved) or more information, please visit themarsh.org.
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Photo caption: Due to popular demand, award-winning actor and playwright Dan Hoyle returns to The Marsh San Francisco with his critically acclaimed hit, "Border People," December 9, 2023 through January 13, 2024.