The Marsh Rising Presents:
Susan Edsall’s
Buen Camino
The Marsh San Francisco Studio
October 10, 2026
Saturday at 7:30 pm
Written & Performed by Susan Edsall
Directed by Jessica Lynn Johnson
Ticket Information
Tickets: $15 – $25 general admission, $50 & $100 Reserved Seating
75 minutes | No intermission | Ages 14+
(Please do not bring infants to the show)
About the Show
Susan has a perfect life, a perfect love, and perfect happiness. When she suddenly undergoes an unexpected loss, her perfect life ends.
Consumed by excruciating pain, she finds it impossible to imagine any future worth living. Until, on an ordinary trip to the grocery store, she hears The Voice. The trouble is, Susan doesn’t believe in Voices. And yet, when The Voice tells her to walk the Camino de Santiago in Spain, she obeys despite knowing nothing about this ancient pilgrimage.
With only her pack and her pain, Susan begins a journey through unrelenting rain and temperatures that rarely get above 50 degrees. With the help of some improbable Spiritual Guides, a little bit of magic, and the Camino itself, Susan must face her past to have any hope of creating her future.
Alone on stage, she becomes 23 characters to take the audience on her solitary walk through 540 miles of rain, resentment, and redemption. Buen Camino is a moving story about grief leading to surrender, and ultimately to freedom.
Artist Biography
A published writer, performer, and career consultant, Susan Edsall grew up in Montana and now lives in Kailua Kona, Hawaii. Author of the forthcoming novel Bitterroot, she has also written two memoirs, Into the Blue: A Father’s Flight and a Daughter’s Return and Saved. She premiered Buen Camino at the SOLO STARS Series in Los Angeles in December 2024, winning their Encore Award. Susan brought the show to United Solo on 42nd Street in New York City in March 2025 and the Hollywood Fringe Festival in June 2025. Buen Camino enjoyed a full run with Gilded Balloon at the 2025 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. She also performed at the Philadelphia Fringe and in several theaters in Vermont.
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