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Fri.-Mon. May 28-31, 7:00pm Fri.-Sat. 4:30pm Sat.-Mon. 2:00pm Mon. (The Sunday May 30 4:30pm show has been cancelled, due to Golden Gate Park access being restricted.)
Antenna Theater (U.S.A)
The Magic Bus (World Premiere)
Geary St & Union Square
$25 general admission only. No senior or student rates.
BOX-OFFICE: 800-838-3006
Presented by Antenna Theater, MJM Management & SFIAF

Sausalito's Antenna Theater will literally hit the streets with a travelling show aboard a renovated 20th Century bus that evokes the era and politics of the Summer of Love and Kesey's Merry Pranksters. The Magic Bus is a veeeery tripppy thick twisted mix of interviews, R&R, image and lights projected while the bus rumbles through Frisco-destination: Further.

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The Magic Bus (World Premiere)

Chris Hardman & Antenna Theater

Since 1980 Antenna Theater has produced all audio, experiential, and performance works conceived by Chris Hardman. Internationally recognized for "Walkmanology" experiments--the use of the portable audio player as an actual performance tool--Antenna has produced more than thirty of Hardman's original interdisciplinary pieces. Antenna's "audients" (Hardman's more active term for individual audience members) have found themselves inside immersive mazes, carnival-like environments, interactive installations, site-specific performances, radio programs, guided tours (including Alcatraz, comprised of oral accounts and interviews with ex-prisoners and guards) and giant walk-through sculptures. Past works have combined cutting edge audio technology with interview-driven sound designs, puppetry, masked movement, 3-D projections, sensor-tripped animation, sculptural objects, features of the natural landscape, and prefabricated environments. Organizations that have commissioned Antenna to create work for a wide range of sites and media include: the Wexner Center for the Visual Arts, the Museum of Contemporary Art and the Mark Taper Forum, Whole Earth Foundation and the Bay Area Playwrights Festival. In addition, Antenna has brought its unique combination of sound, image and movement to adventurous audiences in the most surprising of settings: recycling centers, high school corridors, army barracks, the desert playa of Burning Man and the Pacific Ocean's edge.

Antenna Theater is based at Fort Cronkhite in the Marin Headlands and has partnered with the GGNRA on a number of projects.

Chris Hardman grew up in Los Angeles and went to Goddard College in Stowe, VT. There he worked with Bread and Puppet Theater creating giant masks for street performances. He co-founded Snake Theater in the mid-seventies. Snake Theater was one of the pioneers in the Bay Area of site-specific performance. Chris is also the creator of The ECOlogical Calendar. ECOtime, a project of The ECOlogical Calendar, can be heard as part of NPR's Living On Earth and on Green 960am in the California Bay Area.