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The Dharma of Dollars

Is Mark Kenward betraying his working class roots when he unknowingly stumbles upon a fortune? This question haunts him into pursuing a most unusual spiritual path. The path of business. A path he knows nothing about. A path that leads him down into the underbelly of the Oakland Hills and the cutthroat world of yoga studio management. A mysterious path populated by trust-fund Buddhas and 90-year-old real estate sharks. It's a high-spirited comedy full of big laughs, but within the skillful strokes of a master humorist lurks a darker critique of class, privilege, and spirituality. Kenward probes our current attitudes toward easy enlightenment and the almighty dollar, and in doing so lifts the veil on a subject that we rarely talk about, but that we are all thinking about. Our money.

Mark Kenward is thrilled to be reopening "The Dharma of Dollars" at The Marsh where he previously enjoyed successful runs of "Riding From Normal" and "The Yoga of Moby-Dick." He has performed his shows in over twenty cities throughout the US and Canada, receiving acclamation as a "commanding storyteller"(SF Weekly) and "an astonishing word-slinger" (Contra Costa Times) whose "comic timing is as sharp as his punch-lines are well-honed" (SF Chronicle).