Posted on 02/19/2005 10:50:28 AM PST by mountaineer
Election Day 2004 was a bitter pill for San Francisco actor Dan Hoyle. He'd just spent 10 days in Florida -- knocking on doors, working 16- hour days to defeat George W. Bush. When the votes came in and John Kerry's defeat became clear, Hoyle felt angry, then "incredibly sad" and finally numb.
"Life passed before my eyes, and I just sort of nodded. Because you can't interact any more: There are too many thoughts and emotions flooding through you."
So many on the left remain shell-shocked, locked in a tenuous, self- protective denial, in the wake of Nov. 2. But Hoyle, who at 24 is boyish, earnest and brimming with curiosity, is using his theater skills to wrestle down despair. In "Florida 2004: The Big Bummer," a one-man show running through March 4 at the Marsh, Hoyle turns defeat into therapy and finds absurdist humor in his 10-day Florida ordeal...
Displaying a gift for mime and vocal mimicry ... Hoyle populates "Florida 2004" with real-life characters he met during the campaign. He calls it "journalistic theater" -- a hybrid of reporting and play-making.
When he sat down to write "Florida 2004," "It just fell out of me," Hoyle says in the Noe Valley home he shares with his parents, comic actor Geoff Hoyle and San Francisco State lecturer Mary Winegarden.
Apart from a sober, emotional coda ("I'm so angry -- my parents worked too hard for me to inherit this"), Hoyle has fun with "The Big Bummer." He makes no secret of his dislike for Bush, but also lampoons the dewy-eyed flakes and raging egomaniacs who populated the get-out-the-vote efforts; the truck drivers, Vietnam vets and surly, unregistered voters he met while canvassing door-to-door.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
Personally, I support land mines for mimes...
I rescind my previous statement that a mime is terrible thing to waste. Quite the opposite, it seems.
What's the one radio host calling the town now?
San FranFREAKSHOW, I think...lol.
I'd be more impressed if there were some giant puppets involved.
I put ice on it and moved on also...but not before getting my Letter to the Editor published well before his innauguration - where I called for his impeachment!
It's probably archived someplace; I'd love to dig it up and send the dated paper to the Bill Clinton Doublewide Museum.
Why the hell did his parents have to name him Dan? This joker isn't worthy of that name.
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