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Making Waves, Antenna Theater’s 1994 Chris Hardman retrospective at Falkirk: a Walkman tour, mirror glasses, masks, re-created scenes and a split verdict.

A history of shadow puppetry: China’s Han legend, wayang kulit, Cairo and Karagöz, the Chat Noir, Lotte Reiniger, and shadow scenes around San Francisco Bay.

Big Bang, Antenna Theater’s Sausalito millennium celebration of 1999: the proclamations, the Clock of All Time, Antenna Day, and what the record leaves out.

Alcatraz audio tour history from 1987: the ranger tours it replaced, the pitch, the former guards and inmates you hear, what was cut, and how the tour changed.

What is verbatim theatre? Plays built from real interviews, from the Living Newspaper and Stoke to Anna Deavere Smith, Laramie and headphone verbatim.

What is museum theatre? First-person interpretation, living history and scripted scenes, a short history from 1971, and a theatre company at the Smithsonian.

What is mask theatre? What masks do to actors and audiences, the main mask types, and six traditions from Greek drama and Noh to Lecoq and Trestle.

What is ecotheatre? Theatre about ecology: a clear definition, how it differs from environmental theater, a short history and a 1991 Bay Day example.

Transforming Art, the Antenna Theater gallery show of Chris Hardman’s mirror sculptures and anaglyphs, from the Bay Model in 2004 to the Presidio in 2008.

A history of giant puppets: processional giants since 1265, Dussehra effigies, Bread and Puppet, Royal de Luxe, Little Amal and the Bay Area’s own giants.

High School, Antenna Theater’s Walkman walk-through of Tamalpais High: the 1981 chalk line, the 2002 student-made remake, then Galileo and Berkeley High.

Fairplay, Antenna Theater’s 1985 Walkman midway at Fort Mason’s Pier 3: two dozen audio tape events on San Francisco history, from the 1934 strike to Sam Spade.