I had just settled into my seat Friday night at the Brava Theater in the Mission to see the opening night production of “Monologos de la Vagina" and the San Francisco debut of Eliana Lopez as a performer and producer.
This would be an interesting evening, I mused, because the play is being performed in Spanish and I speak only a word or two of Spanish. The play, known in English as the “Tne Vagina Monologues,” was written by Eve Ensler. It opened in 1994 for a five year run off Broadway and became, as the New York Times put it, "probably the most important piece of political theater of the last decade." .
Art Agnos, the ex-mayor who is leading the battle to stop the Manhattanization of the waterfront, was attending the performance with his wife Sherry. He tapped me on the shoulder and said quietly, Bruce, they filed a lawsuit this afternoon to block our waterfront initiative. They, he explained, were the developers, the Building Trades and Construction Union, and the San Francisco Giants. We chatted for a few moments about the impact of the suit and what must be done quickly to stop it in court.
This was, I thought, a quintessential San Francisco moment. Read more »