San Francisco Mime Troupe in "Too Big to Fail"

July 4 - July 5

For five decades, the award-winning San Francisco Mime Troupe has presented socially relevant theater that enlightens, entertains, and provokes, with free outdoor performances of original productions that incorporate song, dance, music, and comedy.

This year, this Tony Award-winning company celebrates its 50th anniversary season with a musical satire of monumental proportions, Too Big to Fail.

Told in the tradition of the West African griots, this modern day epic follows Filije, a man in love with his family, his village, and most of all, his beloved goat, Bamusa, on an odyssey through the twists and turns of banking bureaucracy and international finance to find out how all the greed got started, and more importantly, how the hell we turn it off.