That's right -- local theater troupe Rhyme Time Theater is presenting , 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.

Race Is A Lie