Peripatetic Players, Neighbor

Samuel Peaches’ Peripatetic Players arrived in the Bay Area in Fall, 2013, with a trunkload of tall tales of world travel.

They made their debut at the 2013 San Francisco Fringe Festival with O Best Beloved, their adaptation of Rudyard Kipling’s Just-So Stories. Their performance was named a Best of Fringe and earned a Stuart Award for Excellence.

In 2014, the Players remounted O Best Beloved for encore performances at Main Street Theatre and Prospect Sierra Middle School, and took O Best Beloved to Bay Area parks and public spaces aboard FluxWagon, their folding mobile stage.

During Summer, 2015, the Peripatetic Players premiered a new show, Aesop Amuck, their madcap retelling of more than a dozen of the famous fables.

That fall, fulfilling a long-held yearning of impresario and artiste Samuel Peaches, the Players began to dabble in Shakespeare. First, they honored Main Street Theatre with an ill-fated improvised performance of Hamlet. Next, tossing aside a Viking-themed script that Mdme. Directrix had prepared in Mr. Peaches’ absence, the players treated revellers at the Bull Valley Roadhouse’s Third Anniversary Party to their version of Romeo and Juliet.

Fraught with some consternation and disagreement (mostly between Mr. Peaches and Thumper) as to which star-crossed tale of destiny is truly the most classic, in September 2016 the Players bring you Shakespeare Or Space Wars. As Princess Gwen puts it, “the audience should understand that even we do not know how it will turn out.”

The Players now claim to be Itinerant Thespians in Residence in the town of Port Costa, California.