Dan Hoyle’s
Border People
Returns to San Francisco!
Written & Performed by Dan Hoyle
Directed & Co-Developed with Charlie Varon
Executive Producers: Fleishhacker Foundation, Terry Gamble Boyer, & Elizabeth Zitrin
Associate Producers: Steve Palmer & Fabrice Florin
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Online ticket sales close 2 hours before each performance,
and additional tickets may be available for purchase at the door.
October 7 – November 18, 2023
Fridays at 7pm | Saturdays at 5pm
No Shows: Oct 14, 20, 21, 28, & November 11
Ticket Information
Tickets: $25 – $35 General Seating sliding scale | $50 & $100 Reserved Seating
Online ticket sales close 2 hours before each performance,
and additional tickets may be available for purchase at the door.
75 minutes | no intermission | Ages 15+
Please do not bring infants to the show
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Masks are recommended but no longer required.
Reviews!
–New York Times
–San Francisco Chronicle
“So transformative and empathetic. Enthralling, sometimes heartbreaking, more often funny. Deeply moving.
— San Francisco Examiner
About the Show
Based on 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. Eleven monologues of people who live on or across borders both geographic and cultural, an intimate, raw, poignant, funny look at the borders we all negotiate in our everyday lives.
About the Performer & Artistic Crew
Dan Hoyle is an actor and playwright whose brand of journalistic theater has been hailed as “riveting, funny and poignant” (New York Times) and “hilarious, moving and very necessary” (Salon). His solo shows EACH AND EVERY THING, THE REAL AMERICANS, TINGS DEY HAPPEN, FLORIDA 2004: THE BIG BUMMER, and CIRCUMNAVIGATOR–all created and premiered at The Marsh Theater in his native San Francisco–have toured the country and overseas including Joe’s Pub at The Public Theater (NYC), Culture Project (NYC), Berkeley Rep, Baltimore Center Stage, Cleveland Playhouse, Mosaic (D.C.), Portland Center Stage, Playmakers Rep (North Carolina), Kolkatta, India, Dublin, Ireland, and a U.S. State Department-sponsored five city tour of Nigeria. As an actor, Hoyle recently appeared in Widowers’ Houses at Aurora Theater Company. His multi actor plays include GAME ON, co-written with Tony Taccone, (TBA award for Outstanding New Play) THE BLOCK (Working Theater, NYC, 2016). He has been an artist-in-residence at Trinity College, Dublin and Columbia University’s Heyman Center for Humanities. More info: danhoyle.com
Charlie Varon (director, co-developer) is an artist-in-residence at The Marsh Theater in San Francisco. He has collaborated with Dan Hoyle on his solo shows Circumnavigator, Tings Dey Happen and The Real Americans. As playwright/performer, Varon’s award-winning shows – all created in collaboration with David Ford –include Rush Limbaugh in Night School (1994), The People’s Violin (2000), and Rabbi Sam (2009) which have had long runs at The Marsh and toured the country. Charlievaron.com