Impact recommends: We Are Not These Hands

Crowded Fire, an awesome SF-based theatre company, presents the world premiere of Sheila Callaghan's We Are Not These Hands at the Ashby Stage in Berkeley.

Impact has produced two of Sheila's plays, Scab and Crumble (Lay Me Down, Justin Timberlake). We love Sheila, obviously, and we love Crowded Fire--they're two great tastes that go great together!

Ever since their school blew up, teenagers Belly and Moth have spent their time peering through the windows of an illegal internet cafe hoping to cross over into the mysterious realms they can only glimpse on the screen. When Leather, a pampered scholar from the other side of the river, arrives to do research on their culture, the girls take particular interest in this strange man with a secret. As their relationship develops, the encounter threatens to explode their understanding of history and forge a connection that will save them all.

We Are Not These Hands plays through July 16. Impact fans get half-price tickets! To reserve your $10 tickets, email the CF box office with "Impact" in the subject line. Include your name, the number in your party, and the date you would like to attend (excluding opening night, 6/27). Or simply show up at the Ashby Stage on the night of the performance, and say the password "Impact" to the box office manager (excluding opening night, 6/27).

Impact recommends: Hunter Gatherers

Peter Sinn Nachtrieb, playwright of this season's Colorado, has another show happening right now at the Thick House, Hunter Gatherers. It's the first full-length play presented by sketch comedians extraordinaire Killing My Lobster, and it's getting a chunk of good reviews from the Contra Costa Times, the SF Bay Guardian, and elsewhere. Don't wait--the show only has a couple of weeks left.

06/07 is here. Get ready.

Our 11th season is huge. HUGE. We're presenting an unprecedented six-play season, overstuffed with every single thing we do best--new plays, a badass bard, a new round of Impact Briefs--and infused them all with a generous portion of sin. That's right, it's the Season of Sin at Impact, and every production contains at least five of the seven deadly sins. Now that's some quality sinning.

Impact audiences get Lucky

Starting off the Season of Sin is the triumphant return of Impact's biggest hit ever: Frank Wortham's celebrated solo show House of Lucky, which premiered at Impact and went on to runs at the Marsh and the Magic Theatre. Frank portrays 17 different characters as he tells the story of Harper Jones, a twentysomething poet working for a Green Tortoise-like bus-travel company. A drug-fueled odyssey through two days and nights, House of Lucky is a uniquely San Franciscan coming-of-age tale that has thrilled audiences and critics alike. Just look at these awards and raves:

WINNER OF 2 BAY AREA CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS

WINNER OF THE BAY GUARDIAN'S SOLO PERFORMANCE AWARD

"It delivers the thrill of a performance virtuoso riding high and hard on the power of the spoken word."—SF Chronicle

"Wortham proves himself a gifted Chameleon of a performer and a writer with perfect pitch for the mad music of contemporary speech."—SF Bay Guardian

"Wortham is the ultimate adventure tour guide taking us on the wild ride through Muni tunnels and the hills of Potrero and North Beach."—SF Examiner

"House of Lucky feverishly captures the high of reckless youth, as well as the hedonist's hangover. Wortham is one of the most exciting young performers around."—San Jose Mercury News

Tickets will be on sale very soon. Want to get Lucky? Click here to watch a preview!

This ain't your parents' theatre benefit (but it's the one they wish they'd had)

Get ready for our first-ever benefit, Impact's Night of Sin, one night only--Saturday, August 12. It's chock-full of performances, games, and other activities we're sure you'll regret the next morning. We've got so much to do, we're taking over all of La Val's.

Tickets go on sale to the general public Monday, July 3, but if you click the link above, you'll go to a special page just for people on our mailing list--and you can get your tickets before they go on sale to the general public. We're only selling 150 tickets to this event, so get yours early!

The new Impact website: wider, sleeker, and bloggier

And one more huge thing for our 11th season and beyond--a fresh, hot website redesign, and it's got some cool new features:

• a revamped Impact Crap section, now with our new T-shirts and new downloadable wallpapers for your desktop


• a brand-new Press Room section, your one-stop shopping for PR images for reviews as well as to help you promote Impact on your own site (thanks!)


• a blog we're calling Splatter, a name that will be familiar to members of our mailing list. Gone is a generic news section that was annoying (and hard to remember) to update. Now you can get the latest news more quickly, because we can post news from wherever the hell we are. Plus, you can subscribe to the RSS or Atom feeds and get Impact news in your own feeder.
  


• a new section for the Impact Ninja-Pirates, now with a leader board so you can make sure you're staying on top. What? You're not a Ninja-Pirate yet? Dude. You're missing out.


• plus a very exciting announcement coming soon!


• and all of this is built in valid standards-compliant XHTML and CSS, which may mean nothing to you, but if it does mean something to you, then we're betting you were probably happy to read that.

A guaranteed way to win a free
Impact T-shirt -- no luck involved

You folks do seem to love our hot new T-shirts. Want one for free?

In addition to the debauched performances and activities we're offering at Impact's Night of Sin, we're having a silent auction, and we need some really cool stuff to auction off.

Here's an offer you can't refuse: EVERY PERSON who donates a sinfully delicious Silent Auction item worth $100 or more will receive a free Impact T-shirt. We've got some great things already: tickets to several Bay Area theatres, bottles of wine, decadent chocolate... but we need a few big-ticket items: spa packages, B&B stays, etc. It doesn't even have to be yours to offer -- if you simply secure the donation for us, the T-shirt goes to you.

So work those connections, and email us if you need a sample letter and donation form. We need Silent Auction items as soon as possible. Offer ends July 14, so act now!

So get ready for a huge 11th season.
And remember, get your Night of Sin
tickets before they're gone!

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