Unorthodox Methods of Cosmic Flight
How to build a slingshot big enough to shoot yourself into the cosmos: A comical journey of begrudging allies, a few Big Questions, and no helpful answers. Inspired by Ilya Kabakov’s visual art installation “The Man Who Flew Into Space From His Apartment”, Theatre and Installation Art combine into a show for anyone who has ever looked up at the night sky and felt the incomprehensible need to go. Three…
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.
Topside
Since the beginning of the pandemic, Theater in Quarantine has developed and livestreamed dozens of visually distinctive, original performances from an eight-square-foot closet in the East Village. Hailed as one of the most imaginative makers of digital performance, this Drama League Award–winning company comes to the Cannonball Festival with a marathon in-person run of Scott R. Sheppard’s Topside. Inspired by the short story “Game” by Donald Barthelme and written expressly…
The Perspective Collective Presents: Young Goodman Brown, A Mini-Opera
The Perspective Collective invites you on a journey into some dark places through Art Song and Opera. These include not only physical spaces, but the capacity for darkness within the self as well. Along the way we’ll encounter a lively graveyard (Camille Saint-Saëns’s Danse Macabre), a prolific serial killer (Libby Larsen’s The Peculiar Case of H.H. Holmes), a recluse trapped by unsettling visions (Rosśa Crean’s Twilight Lifts the Veil), and…
The Tower
The Tower is a immersive musical experience that explores and celebrates our universe from an emotional, spiritual, and scientific perspective, and seeks intimacy with whatever forces came together to create it. This show premiered digitally during the 2022 Philly Theatre Week, and will be presented as a live show for the Philadelphia Fringe Festival.
The Two-Character Play (Out Cry) by Tennessee Williams
Felice and Clare are a brother and sister performing act who arrive at a decrepit “state theater in a state of unknown” and find themselves deserted by their troupe. Faced (perhaps) by an audience expecting a performance, they enact “The Two-Character Play” as their outcry from isolation, panic and fear – a Southern Gothic affair in which they spend their lives as prisoners in the rotting house where their parents…
The Living Gallery at Launch Point
The gallery comes to life in a love letter to the Cosmos. Guests are welcome to wander Launch Point, a warehouse turned art installation and maze-like gallery, discovering artwork and hidden performers along the way. The gallery includes painting, illustration work, light sculptures, visual installations, and performers of various backgrounds, and each artist is responding to space flight, space exploration, or past artwork inspired by space. 80% of the venue…
The Sideshow: A Comedy Variety Special
Step right up! See the comedy wonders that Philly has to o! er in the Sideshow Comedy Variety Showcase! You might see improv! You might see a sketch! You might see stand-up! You might see dancing! You might see any number of fun, weird, or interesting things! All in the same block for one low price. WEDNESDAY, 9/14 @ 9PMLine-up TBA THURSDAY, 9/15 @ 7:30PMLine-up TBA Can’t get tickets on…
The Path of Pins or the Path of Needles
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The Squid and The Octopus
The Squid and The Octopus, created and performed by Jim Julien, is a very intimate cephalopod adventure, a shadow puppet show (with knives!) This show uses a variety of puppetry styles and multimedia to weave a tale of multi-tentacled danger, contemporary restaurant culture and undersea lifestyles. Performed in the very interactive and up-close space of the Maas Building Cottage, as part of the Cannonball Festival 2022, The Squid and The…
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