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School parents encourage extracurricular activities in SF Playhouse's latest

Susi Damilano and Bill English, the talented actors/directors who founded SF Playhouse, think that since life is hard, theater should be fun, so they have planned a whole season of smart and sexy comedies.

SF Playhouse has launched its season with First Day of School, a sly updating of an old quote about mice who play while the cat's away. Summer vacation is over and David (English) and his wife Susan (Zehra Berkman) take the kids to school, and then linger in the halls to find someone of their own age to play with. "Should we find other couples to have sex with" they wonder, "or should we go home and fix the ...

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