Maybe the Mime Troupe isn’t political satire after all?

Datebook: If you never took a theater history class or haven’t dusted off your college textbooks in a while, here’s a quick primer. This art form, popular for centuries, shares many characteristics with the Mime Troupe’s mode. Both are defined by Manichaean good vs. evil, either God and virtue vs. the devil and sin or, in the Mime Troupe’s case, socialism and progressivism vs. capitalism and conservatism.