Arts & Events

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