Sunday, October 11, 2020
4:30 – 5:45pm PT
BIRDS
Written and Performed by Ron Jones
Directed by Charlie Varon
California, USA
Brown Birds and Blue Birds struggle for identity and racial superiority. A Red Bird, Woman Bird, and Poet Bird prevents chaos by teaching children birds about freedom and social justice. Freedom for everybody, not just somebody.
About the Artist
Ron Jones is best known for his Palo Alto classroom experiment called The Wave. His short story of The Wave novelized by Todd Strasser is read world wide and required reading in Germany and Israel. This story about the appeal of fascism has been made into a feature film DIE WELLE and a current Netflix series We Are The Wave. Theatric versions of The Wave have appeared on stages in Madrid, Hong Kong, New Deli, Moscow, NYC , Berlin, Jerusalem, to right here in San Francisco at The Marsh.
As delineated by the performer
Age recommendation: All Ages
Trigger Warnings: No
Run time: 10 minutes