SF Recovery Theatre: More Tales from the Fentanyloin, December 18-21, 2025

SF Recovery Theatre continues their mission to bring truth to the people using their unique drama medium with a series of one-act plays for the SF Recovery Theatre festival, December 18-21, 2025 at Potrero Stage (Thu-Sat at 7pm, Sun at 4pm). Suggested donation: $25 (no one turned away for lack of funds).

The festival will be anchored by the epic piece written by Douglas Turner Ward, Day of Absence, originally premiered in 1965 and telling the story of a Southern town where all of its Black residents suddenly disappear. Another of the staged pieces is The Psych, a play loosely based on the seminal work of psychiatrists Dr. William H. Grier and Dr. Price Cobbs’ book, Black Rage. Released in 1968 following the assassination of Martin Luther King and subsequent riots, the book went on to become so popular it became required reading in high school and college.

SFRT takes a look at the justice and healthcare system through the eyes of not only the patient but the psychotherapists’ need for counsel as well, leading to a conclusion, as James Baldwin said, “It’s amazing that we are all not stark raving mad.” SFRT’s collaboration partner for the festival is the Homeless Children’s Network (HCN). Get tickets here.

ABOUT SF RECOVERY THEATRE

In the midst of San Francisco’s Tenderloin district, where homelessness, poverty, drugs and the misfortunate have congregated and for the most part is ignored by the City’s Officials, is the home of San Francisco’s Recovery Theatre.

The Recovery Theatre is a grassroots organization with a lot of local and some municipal support. It is funded by grants from the art and health community in San Francisco with no full time staff, but with a core group of dedicated actors, composed mainly of people in recovery. Its mission is to meet people where they are, provide a medium of communication and deliver a message of hope, consequence and solutions.

Geoffrey Grier heads the Company and also hosts the Mr. Geoffrey Show, a local online show that focuses on the issues, concerns and events of the Tenderloin community. With on the job training theatre experience and many years as a group facilitator at various treatment centers in San Francisco, Mr. Grier holds a degree in psychology from San Francisco State University, and has assembled a cast of actors from clients in and out of treatment to develop and present his new play “The Spot”. A is a play about a teenage couple whose lives change dramatically when she gets pregnant at 15. Struggling to support his family, the young man resorts to dealing drugs to make ends meet, but soon gets wrongly blamed for the death of two people and is sent to prison.Grier feels that the theatre’s productions is the only safe place that people of different cultures, races and religious backgrounds can experience the lifestyle of another without feeling threatened.While many people are still battling substance abuse, mental health, or housing problems, it becomes a formidable task for Recovery Theatre to assist those in need to transcend them to a healthier, progressively positive life.