7 September 08

Satire In The Park

The San Francisco Mime Troupe made their annual visit to Davis this afternoon, setting up their outdoor theatre in Community Park on a hot day ( it always seems to be hot when they come to town). This year’s musical political theatre was entitled “Red State” — the plot centering on the down-and-out town of Bluebird, Kansas who because of a improbable electoral tie and a voting machine malfunction wind up with the job of determining the result of the 2008 presidential elections after all the voting has ended everywhere else.

The trouble with political satire these days is that reality is now more outrageous than the satire.

Posted by at 11:12 PM in Politics | Link |

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