History as a mechanism. It does what it wants; we are incidental to it. Here is what it is: a staircase. On the staircase are men. At the top, a king. Someone is advancing. He climbs and he will push the king into the abyss, and he will stand atop the staircase. At the beginning [...]
“Transgressive” is always a nice thing to hear about one’s Shakespeare production, isn’t it? Impact is camp in the 1970s sense of the word, and in some ways the company’s plays are closer in spirit to Warhol or Almodóvar than to other local theater companies. The East Bay Express really digs the show! And so, [...]
This comes from Pat Craig at the CoCoTimes: In a Berkeley basement theater, a black box with nubby walls and a ceiling so low it makes the short feel tall, the Impact Theatre Company creates its art and performs miracles by turning twentysomethings into avid theatergoers. Miracle-workers? I’d like to think so. The write-up seems [...]
Last night we sat down for the first read-through for Impact’s upcoming production of Twelfth Night. The script is a fresh edit (asking an audience to sit through a full-length Shakespeare play, no matter how beautiful or funny, is asking a lot) and it was a delight to hear such a talented group of performers [...]
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