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Performing Arts: Theatre after the quake

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Given the Bay Area's propensity for seismic activity (residents need only think as far back as October 30 for the latest reminder), the Berkeley Repertory Theatre's production of Frank Galati's after the quake couldn't be more, ahem, resonant. Extended through December 2, after the quake skillfully combines two of Haruki Murakami's short stories, from his collection of the same name, about individuals living in the aftermath of the 1994 Kobe earthquake. Galati's script and the Rep's responsive cast and creative staging perfectly capture Murakami's deadpan mix of the mundane and the absurd, while providing a larger commentary on how storytelling helps us through life's shocks and aftershocks, geologic and otherwise.

– Matt Sussman

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