Rhyming About Race

Because we are no good at doggerel, we are going to decline what would otherwise be an extremely tempting way to write up this post and not write it in rhyming couplets.

That's right -- local theater troupe Rhyme Time Theater is presenting Race Is A Lie, a play about race relations in the SFPD. Written in rhyming iambic pentameter. (To refresh you from high school English class, that's a sentence with the pattern da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM -- "Shall I compare thee to a sum-mer's day? Thank you, Wikipedia, we had completely forgotten that until we looked it up ourselves.)

Race Is A Lie is about two SFPD cops named White and Black (guess what race they are), investigating a murder suspect of inderminate ethnicity (named Other). We wish the real SFPD did their investigations in rhyming verse!

Race Is A Lie runs starting tonight through November 30 at the SF Playhouse (533 Sutter, between Powell and Mason). $20, performance starts at 8 p.m.

Picture of White, Black, and Other from the RhymeTime Theater website.