Past Shows
A-A-America!
The S.F. Chronicle gave A-A-America! one of its highest ratings, the "Clapping Man", and chose the production
as one of its "Critics' Theater Favorites" of the week.
"A-A-America! achieves an
artful, disquieting topicality as thought-provoking as it is disturbing."
— Robert Hurwitt, S.F. Chronicle
"Far from a pedantic history lesson, Crowded
Fire's smart and committed production demands an accounting of social
responsibility."
— Rob Avila, S.F. Bay Guardian
"[Crowded Fire] has consistently pushed itself
to create fascinating, exceptional and difficult work.... A-A-America! provides an intriguing, thought-provoking experience."
— Chad Jones, Oakland Tribune
A-A-America!
by Edward Bond
directed by Christine Young
played March 20 – April 12, 2003, at the EXIT
on Taylor, in San Francisco.
Edward Bond's nightmare burlesque of the past, present, and future of America's race issues. Composed of two short plays (Grandma Faust and The Swing) and based on true stories from the dark history of lynching, A-A-America! offers up an alarming and disturbingly hilarious cast of characters from Southern belle cannibals fighting over the ingredients for "nigger foot pie" to the wheelchair-bound devil Grandma who demands the soul of the Black man. A play that's so shocking because it's true, and so funny because it hurts us so much still, A-A-America! is a sharp outsider take on this country's legacy of scapegoating and racism.
Director: Christine Young
Featuring: Cassie Beck, Sara Betts, Richard Bolster, Michael
Brusasco, Algin Ford*, Jeremiah Hill, Linda Jones, Michele Leavy, Gene
Thompson
Scenic Design: Pegeen McGhan
Costume Design: Jocelyn Leiser
Lighting Design: James Mulligan
Sound Design: Paul Lancour
Stage Manager: Emily Ehrlich Inget
Assistant Director: Robert Martinez
Assistant Stage Manager: Beth Powell
*Member Actors' Equity Association. A-A-America! was
an Equity-