Impact Theatre Extends TWELFTH NIGHT, Performances Added 6/2, 6/9

After receiving critical raves and selling out performances, Impact Theatre has added two performances to its production of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, directed by Impact Artistic Director Melissa Hillman. Though scheduling conflicts require that the production still close June 12, due to audience demand the company has added two Wednesday performances, June 2 and 9.

The Contra Costa Times and its Bay Area News Group sister publications, the Oakland Tribune and the San Jose Mercury News, all ran Pat Craig's review, in which he called the production "deliciously appealing" and said "the casting is inspired" and "the principals in this production are wonderful." The East Bay Express said the show "revels in reinvention... Twelfth Night is not only transgressive - it's transformative, transgendered, trans-everything. And it's a perfect fit for Impact Theatre, a small Berkeley-based company that's consolidated its reputation for quippy, clever, postmodern plays with omnisexual characters." The SF Bay Guardian praised the show's "strong comic performances."

For their part, audiences have given the show standing ovations, and at several performances, hopeful audience members have had to be turned away.

ABOUT IMPACT THEATRE
Since 1996 Impact Theatre has spoken to a new generation of theatregoers and enthusiasts alike who want to see something fresh and bold on stage. Impact's audience ranges from students to professionals to seniors, all of whom share a taste for exciting, unpretentious theatre that doesn't conform to stale assumptions of what constitutes high culture. Impact's primary mission is to directly contribute to the future of American theatre through focusing on new plays by emerging playwrights. Impact has produced 18 full-length world premieres, including 13 by local playwrights, as well as dozens of world-premiere ten-minute plays by burgeoning writers nationwide in the Impact Briefs series. Impact also prides itself on its fast-paced, vital, contemporary spins on classic drama. Impact shows compel, provoke, and inspire, at prices everyone can afford. And nowhere else in the Bay Area can you eat pizza and drink beer while you're watching a play. The East Bay Express named Impact "Best Small Theatre Company" in its 2008 Best of the East Bay issue and always includes Impact shows in its year-end top-ten lists.

Admission:

Advance tickets: $17 general / $12 students, seniors, and TBA members
At the door: $20 general / $15 students, seniors, and TBA members
IMPORTANT: PLEASE LIST PRICES AS $12-20.

More info: impacttheatre.com