Arts & Events
Around & About--Theater, Dance, Film: Inferno Theatre & Collaborators in Theater, Dance, Film Stage the Diasporas Festival
Inferno Theatre and their multidisciplinary collaborators from all over are staging the third annual Diasporas Festival all three evenings this weekend (8 p. m. Friday, 7 on Saturday and Sunday) at the South Berkeley Community Church, 1802 Fairview (entrance around the corner on Ellis), two blocks off Adeline/MLK, a few minutes' walk from Ashby BART.
The events on the program--which changes in part, partly overlaps, day to day--much of it new work or work-in-progress, include excerpts from Giulio Perrone's (Inferno's founder/designer/artistic director) 'Quantum Love;" from 'Female, Ashkenazi, with Sewing Machine' by Inferno's managing director, playwright Jamie Greenblatt; 'My Outcast State,' a theater/dance/music piece on Shakespeare's Sonnets by Berkeley's Anton's Well Theatre, directed by Robert Estes, with actors Stanley Spenger and Matthew Surrance, musician Hal Hughes and dancer/choreographer Fiona Melia; Simone Bloch's 'Portrait Between Two Chairs;' Blue Monkey Works' 'Dash,' by Steve Morgan; 'Love Monster' by Courtney Russell; Chabot College Theatre Arts performing an excerpt from 'I' by Rachel Le Pell (and Le Pell's 'Truing the Wheel'); Polyhedron Company's 'Algor Mortis;' Back à Dos Theatre Company of the French International School in 'Hamlet Mash-Up;' Conmigo Connect with 'Y Dance; Sharmon Hilfigér's 'What Makes an Italian?;' Wei-Shan Lai & Dancers; Ann Seitz's 'Nick's Diner' (winner of Inferno's short play competition; Robert Fields in excerpts from his 'AJ;' Koy with Sophia Craven in 'Lost & Found;' --and short films by C. B. Smith-Dah, Andrej Diamantstein and Darryl Jones.
Tickets are available online for $20, students $5 with ID & at the door on a sliding scale: infernotheatre.org