And They Have a Plan

And They Have a Plan

Impact Theatre goes out with a bang…and an alien invasion.

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Out of the Woods (and into the Bar)

27 February, 2013 Theater No comments
Out of the Woods (and into the Bar)

Impact Theatre gets gender-bent with an As You Like It where Celia’s a dude, them Dukes are double dutchesses, the melancholy Jaques is a female hipster, and the forest of Arden is a Northern California bar. I give you

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A Tighter Titus

A Tighter Titus

Titus Andronicus is William Shakespeare’s bloodiest tragedy, and for centuries it was also generally considered to be his worst. Although the playwright’s contemporaries loved it, it wouldn’t regain popularity until after Word War II, when all the play’s hand-chopping, child-killing, rape, decapitation and cannibalism no longer seemed as outlandish as it once did. In the age of the slasher flick, Titus’s Grand Guignol elements are once again its primary selling point.

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For the Love of the Game

23 September, 2011 Theater No comments
For the Love of the Game

THEATER REVIEW: BERKELEY

Show #80: Of Dice and Men, Impact Theatre, September 2.

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