A U.S. factory is shutting down. The workers are losing their jobs, and to add insult to injury, they have also lost their last two weeks of pay and retirement funds, which were raided over the years to pay stock dividends. Despondent, but feeling powerless, they work their last shift and raise a glass to their years together. As they leave the Factory for the last time, one of the Workers gets snagged on a machine. Interpreting this as an act of defiance, The Boss calls security. The situation escalates and before anyone has a chance to think, the Workers have accidentally occupied the Factory!

During negotiations, The Boss tries intimidation, patriotism, and Red Scare tactics, while the Workers try to figure out what the heck they’re doing. Some say wreck the place. Tea Baggers blame the government, others blame the Union. An Argentine ex-pat says they should run the Factory themselves and is labeled a Commie. At night, as the occupying Workers entertain themselves with songs and stories, the Argentine tells the tale of a similar strike back home. As the story unfolds, the plights of the American and Argentine Workers play out side by side. While the Americans struggle to keep their factory occupation from becoming politicized, the Argentine strike is deeply political. In the end, both the American and Argentine Workers are victorious, but which resolution will ultimately keep the power in the Workers’ hands?

Wilma Bonet directs Rotimi Agbabiaka, Velina Brown, Lisa Hori-Garcia, Maggie Mason, Brian Rivera, Michael Gene Sullivan in this modern song and tango about politics in the workplace, written by Michael Gene Sullivan, with additional dialogue by Ellen Callas.

The Tony Award-winning San Francisco Mime Troupe creates and produces socially relevant theater; their work is political satire and anything but silent. The Mime Troupe creates plays that make sense out of the headlines, close-up stories that make audiences feel the impact of political events on their personal lives.

Pre-show music starts at 1:30pm.
ASL interpreter on-site for performance.