Award-Winning Travel Writer Jeff Greenwald's Strange Travel Suggestions at The Marsh
The Marsh San Francisco Mainstage Theater (1062 Valencia St. San Francisco, CA 94110)
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- $15.00 - $22.00
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- $7.50 - $11.00*
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The last date listed for Strange Travel Suggestions: Tales of Global Adventure was Saturday June 21, 2008 / 8:00pm.
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17 Goldstar Member Reviews
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Joyce L.
A unique show in which every performance is different. More than a travellogue, the performer tells each tale with the theme of finding wonderment and surprise in every adventure.Written on Apr 14 2008
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dance fan
Jeff is like a crazy cool uncle who always has a fun story. 3 spins, 3 stories, all hilarious. 80 mins, no intermission, intimate venue w/open seating so get there early--our show was sold out. We're going back before the end of the run--each one is different.Written on Apr 05 2008
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It was only ok, the idea of the wheel is interesting, but the pace of the show was too slow and he could have been much more pro-active. To tell Stories from other parts of the world, not just from the far east. The show fits high school kids or college students, not people who have been traveling.Written on Apr 28 2008
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More Information About Strange Travel Suggestions: Tales of Global Adventure
Quotes & Highlights
- “The last time Jeff Greenwald’s roulette wheel of a one-man show had a run at The Marsh, I went and laughed my head off. The Marsh is a small place, so Greenwald obligingly handed my head back to me.” --San Francisco Chronicle
- “Funny, keen-eyed, utterly engaging… Wherever it leads, it adds up to quite a trip.” —San Francisco Bay Guardian
Description
“I want this show to evoke the thrill of a journey,” says Jeff Greenwald. “The unexpected encounters and diversions that make world travel so wild and illuminating.” To achieve this, he brings the hand of destiny into the theater. Audience members step onto the stage and spin a huge, colorful Wheel of Fortune. 'Round and 'round it spins, and where it stops, the story begins. Greenwald never knows which tales he is going to tell in the course of an evening—and the audience embarks on this expedition with him, from one spin to the next, as partner and traveling companion.
Greenwald draws from 30 years of travels for his stories. He has visited six continents, working as a writer, artist, performer and photographer. In 1979, during his first trip to Asia, he designed urban playgrounds for UNICEF and the Nepal Children’s Organization. Several months later, arriving in Thailand during the Khmer civil war, he served as a volunteer engineer at Khao-I-Dang, largest of the Cambodian refugee camps. In the 1983, Greenwald was awarded a Journalism Fellowship by the Rotary Foundation, and departed for a 16-month residence in Kathmandu, Nepal. Tales of his excursions to the Himalayas, India, Sri Lanka, Japan and Indonesia appeared in GEO, Islands and other magazines. As he circled the globe writing “The Size of the World” in 1993/94, Jeff posted frequent dispatches on the Global Network Navigator (GNN), one of the first travel websites. Consequently, he is hailed as an Internet pioneer for creating the first international blog. In 2005, he worked with Mercy Corps as a Communications Officer in Sri Lanka, assisting victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami.
Best known as a writer, Oakland-based Greenwald is the author of five best-selling travel books, including Shopping for Buddhas, The Size of the World and Scratching the Surface: Impressions of Planet Earth from Hollywood to Shiraz. His work is widely anthologized and his articles and essays have appeared in The New York Times, National Geographic Adventure, Wired, Outside and many other print and online publications.
In addition to performing Strange Travel Suggestions, Greenwald is currently completing a new book set in Nepal. He also serves as Executive Director of Ethical Traveler (ethicaltraveler.org), a global alliance he co-founded in 2003, and which is dedicated to human rights, environmental protection and the ambassadorial potential of world travel
Strange Travel Suggestions premiered at The Marsh in San Francisco in 2003.