Infinite Wrench: Neo-Futurists 30 short plays
- San Francisco Neo-Futurists are staging “The Infinite Wrench” again this weekend at 447 Minna, with performances set for Friday and Saturday nights at 9 p.m. and audience members helping choose the order. - The show’s format is fixed but its material keeps changing: 30 original plays in 60 minutes, with new pieces each week drawn from performers’ lived experience and sold online for $18.60. - The company bills the production as running 50 weekends a year, making it a recurring low-cost downtown theater option rather than a one-off event. (sfneofuturists.org)
San Francisco Neo-Futurists are running “The Infinite Wrench” this weekend at 447 Minna, with the company’s official site listing shows every Friday and Saturday at 9 p.m. (sfneofuturists.org) The format is blunt and fast: 30 original plays in 60 minutes, staged in an order chosen by the audience. The company says the pieces range from personal to political to “profoundly WTF.” (sfneofuturists.org) (eventbrite.com) The Eventbrite listing says online ticket sales close 45 minutes before each performance, and a limited number of walk-up tickets are sold at the door for $13 plus the roll of a six-sided die. (eventbrite.com) Funcheap lists the general admission price at $18.60 with fees included and notes there is no late seating. The listing also describes the show as all ages, while warning that any given performance may include cursing and adult themes. (sf.funcheap.com) The company says it presents the show 50 weekends a year, which makes “The Infinite Wrench” less like a limited run and more like an ongoing repertory machine. Its pitch is that the structure stays the same while the content changes every week. (sfneofuturists.org) (eventbrite.com) That weekly turnover is central to the Neo-Futurist model: the plays are described as truthful, written from the lived experiences of the ensemble, and performed with the fourth wall deliberately broken. (sfneofuturists.org) (447minna.com) For audience logistics, the venue is ADA-accessible, with all-gender accessible restrooms, according to the company and ticketing page. The group also says the first Saturday of each month is mask-mandatory, with April 4 listed as a masked show. (sfneofuturists.org) (eventbrite.com) The show has been running long enough to become part of the city’s regular theater circuit, with the company highlighting a San Francisco Chronicle mention calling it one of “22 San Francisco things everyone must do.” (sfneofuturists.org) (sf.funcheap.com) For this weekend, the practical takeaway is simple: the show is scheduled for 9 p.m., tickets are cheaper in advance than at the door if the die roll goes badly, and arriving early matters because late seating is not allowed. (sfneofuturists.org) (sf.funcheap.com)
