WORKSHOPS
A series of workshops and masterclasses for artists, by artists, connecting our community to new ideas and sparking new connections. Featuring workshops in acrobatic dance, visual improvisation, Grotowski practice and more. Find out more at cannonballfestival.org!
Three Men In a Boat (To Say Nothing Of The Dog)
Tony Lawton brings you his solo adaptation of the comic novel by Jerome K. Jerome. Three London pals take a two-week holiday rowing up the Thames. High jinks ensue. With rhapsodic passages on the splendors of nature, the shame and glory of English history, and the pathos of the human condition. Design and direction by Thom Weaver.
Tree Confessions
Trees talk! In a landmark study, a scientist learned everything about how trees communicate — or did she? One tree tells the story of what really happened. Presenting the world’s first play told entirely from the point of view of a tree. To experience this site-specific audio play, find a tree near you, sit under it, press play, and listen to the tree’s confessions.
Why we dance
4 Short documentary films follow the journey of 4 Ballroom dancers.
Visions
The Church of Loneliness. A vintage cyberpunk cafe. Government-mandated sex talks with your dad. Each week, award-winning Philly playwrights present short, fresh plays that explore faraway places and radical themes about humanity’s future. VISIONS is a three-week work-in-progress series showcasing 10 playwrights. Each week a different group of writers present brand new performance pieces inspired by outer space, technology, religion, the future, and more. Come back the next night or the…
Wear Me Into Spring: a performance featuring taiko and dance
Wear Me Into Spring is a performance combining duets and ensemble pieces of dance and taiko that follow alongside Remnants, a poem by William Leo Coakley. Each performer brings their own expertise to the show, and these skills overlap and complement one another in each scene. Wear Me Into Spring is a 30 min production featuring multiple pieces. It was filmed over the course of one afternoon at the MAAS…
The Perspective Collective
The Perspective Collective and Opera on Tap present a performance of contemporary opera about contemporary themes. For Love of Country: “They will take our freedom from our cold dead hands…” Desperate to save their cause, an aging patriot and his ambitious spokeswoman turn to a suspiciously foreign-sounding graduate student. This contemporary opera combines themes from America, Russia, love, politics, loyalty, and betrayal. Opera on Tap: patriotismnoundevoted love, support, and…
The Stronger and Saturn’s Return
Help celebrate Gemini’s full journey around the sun with a double bill of Michael Dutka’s The Stronger and a cabaret of Gemini’s favorites! In this film adaptation of the opera, The Stronger, follow the journey of a theatre star as she see’s an old friend and has an epiphany about love and family. Then stay tuned as amazing performers sing a variety of songs from each of our themed shows…
Wild Women Of Planet Wongo
The 60s sci-fi immersive musical comedy Wild Women of Planet Wongo, a wacky B-movie inspired sci-fi comedy about a planet of Amazonian women who first encounter men when two bumbling astronauts crash on their planet, is coming virtually to the Philadelphia Fringe Festival after successful productions in New York City and Chicago. Filmed at the Parkside Lounge in New York City, Wongo will be premiering on Thursday, September 16 at 8pm…
we must already be dead
we must already be dead began as an experiment with an old-school overhead projector, hosted by Movement Research (NYC) in 2019. The piece was expanded into a full length work for Triskelion Arts’ Split Bill 35 (NYC) in March 2020. Never having been viewed due an abrupt pandemic cancellation, BREAKTIME is finally showing the piece to its first audience in its full form at the 2021 Philly Fringe Festival. The…
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