Friends of Perfection
Schedule
Sat Jan 31 2026 at 07:00 pm to 10:00 pm
UTC-08:00Location
2948 16th Street, San Francisco, California 94103, United States | San Francisco, CA
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*A collective fever dream calls from beyond the doom loop.* **Small Press Traffic** presents *Friends of Perfection*, a poets theater experiment inspired by the communes of 1970s San Francisco and collaboratively written by **Styles Alexander**, **Amelia Bande**, **Gabriele Christian**, **Maxe Crandall**, **Wren Farrell**, **Sloka Krishnan**, **Brittany Newell**, **Brontez Purnell**, **Rowena Richie**, **Maria Silk**, **Ryan Tacata**, and **Julie Tolentino**.Co-presented with The Lab (January 31) and BAMPFA (February 1), with funding from the Kenneth Rainin Foundation, the project pushes the collaborative chaos of poets theater to extremes: twelve writers, three co-directors, a sprawling cast, puppets, possession, and a turtle named Shell Theory.
The Setup: When their cherished art space Perfection seems doomed, a motley crew of artists must devise an elaborate heist to thwart the schemes of the artistic elite. Danger lurks in the gift shop, intrigue escalates in the Stud bathroom, all while our mighty team of underground dynamos plot their next move. Can our collective fever dream save Perfection?
Written as an exquisite corpse across twelve weeks, the anarchic script reflects an array of Bay Area aesthetics and concerns, emerging as a reclamation of performance as a collective, grassroots enterprise with the power to preserve, celebrate, and reimagine a shared cultural commons.
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