The San Francisco Mine Troupe has been staging radical political theater for over fifty years. In 1967, the Troupe toured campuses across the midwest, performing L’amant Militaire – a satirized adaptation of an old anti-war play, updated to critique US involvement in the Vietnam War. The tour followed the movements of Dow Chemical’s recruiting team, employing a marching band to publicize the corporation’s manufacture of the napalm being used in the war effort.
Employing a puppet narrator that criticized religion, capitalism and American politics, L’amant Militaire ran for two weeks of sold out shows in New York, earning it a 1968 Obie award “for uniting theater and revolution and grooving in the parks”.
The Troupe continues to perform free shows for audiences every summer in local parks.
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