SF Bay Area: Shiver We Timbers!

by NoPro Newswire
NoPro Newswire
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July 5, 2018
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3 min read

When: July 7-August 12, 2018 (Weekends)
Where: Various parks in the Bay Area (Full Schedule Here)
Price: Free (Donations Accepted)

Tags: #comedy, #outdoors, #interactive, #familyfriendly, #Advisories (See Below)

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An all-ages, “choose your own adventure” pirate storybook comes to life in Bay Area parks this summer. The Peripatetic Players will bring their mobile stage and comedy chops to entertain families around the Bay.

No two shows are the same!

Note: this is interactive in the sense that the audience chooses scenes, not interactive in the “video game” sense. (Yes, we DO cover both kinds of shows!)

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Press Release Follows:

Sail the high seas with Captain Samuel Peaches and his crew! You’ll help these eccentric performing pirates chart their course though fantastic adventures inspired by pirate myths, legends and stories. Meet creatures and characters of the sea, sail to raucous pirate towns, sing along with swashbuckling sea chanteys, search for buried treasure, and avoid cursed doubloons — but be careful! Danger lurks in every port, and at the crest of every wave. And since the audience will choose the course, no two shows will be the same!

Join Idiot String’s resident troupe of eccentric thespians, the Peripatetic Players, for this live, interactive show presented on FluxWagon, our mobile stage, at a park or public space in the San Francisco Bay Area.

The Peripatetic Players’ folding mobile stage is set up by the ensemble shortly before each show. As with previous Peripatetic Players productions, the Players will playfully interact with the audience before, during and after their show. Shiver We Timbers!, based on pirate stories from history, pop culture, and myth, features a structure inspired by “Choose Your Own Adventure” books, and original songs as well as new takes on traditional sea shanties.

The adventure begins when the Players set theatrical sail on the high seas, but when they can’t decide what course to take, it’s up to the audience to weigh in. The audience is asked to “choose their own adventure” at key points in the narrative, which will alter the story and outcome — sometimes resulting in the epic demise of one or all Players, or the audience themselves. And like a choose-your-own adventure book, the story can pick up again at a different spot to keep the fun going. Samuel Peaches Peripatetic Players are: Samuel Peaches (Casey Robbins), Princess Gwen (Marlene Yarosh), Guy Hank (Paul Collins), Thumper (Joan Howard), Meekins (Sam Bertken), and Madame Directrix (Rebecca Longworth, who also directs).

The Samuel Peaches Peripatetic Players have presented live, interactive theatre for all ages each summer since 2014. Past shows include O Best Beloved, an adaptation of Rudyard Kipling’s “Just-So” Stories; Aesop Amuck, based on the famous fables; and Shakespeare Or Space Wars, a mashup of Romeo and Juliet and Star Wars: A New Hope.

Shiver We Timbers! is presented in association with San Francisco Recreation and Parks and Berkeley Parks and Recreation. The production is made possible by the generous sponsorship of Niles Main Street Association, the Alameda County Library Foundation, Alameda Recreation and Parks, the Oakland Dept of Parks, Recreation and Youth Development, the Port Costa Conservation Society, the Santa Clara City Library and the City of Pleasanton. Idiot String is fiscally sponsored by Independent Arts & Media, a San Francisco nonprofit organization dedicated to building community through media and the arts. The company’s annual summer tours with the Peripatetic Players are made possible through individual donations made either online or in person at each show, with support from Theatre Bay Area CA$H Creates. The East Bay Fund For Artists at the East Bay Community Foundation is matching gifts made to Idiot String through July 15, 2018. More information on supporting Idiot String and the Peripatetic Players can be found online at https://peripateticplayers.org/donatepp or by calling 510–542–9009.

Shiver We Timbers! runs about 60 minutes, pending the adventures chosen. More information is available online at http://peripateticplayers.org.

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