Jerry Garcia in the Lower Mission
By Richard Montoya
Directed By Rotimi Agbabiaka
Dramaturgy by Edris Anifowoshe Cooper
A brand new music theatre piece from Richard Montoya of the iconic satire group Culture Clash. Richard Montoya continues his years-long collaboration with new performances group Campo Santo, creating this new performance piece especially for the Magic Theatre. This is an original creation uncovering the roots of Jerry Garcia in the Mission. A Tribute to the formative years in our own City of an American Icon and local legend- Jerry Garcia. A special piece of storytelling and live music, San Francisco history, Grateful Dead Lore wrapped into an intimate theatre concert. This theatrical exploration goes to the earliest roots (1947-48) of this hero, Jerry Garcia. We go on a time trip journey into Garcia's early life as it plays out in our City, in the Mission District of yore. Before The Dead, we reach back to Jerry, an imaginative and sensitive child who witnesses the drowning of his Spanish father and must now navigate the length of Mission Street and his memory of a strong Irish Mother, owner of a Merchant Marine and Navy saloon, right in the heart of the Lower Mission.
This new play with live music includes the one of a kind Richard Montoya in the show, along with Lisa Hori-Garcia, Aidaa Peerzada, Brian Rivera, Sharon Shao, with the live band J. Raoul Brody, Joshua Icban, and Rachel Lastimosa.