The Give & Take Jugglers
Give and Take has been a consistent hit with both children and adults for over 40 years. Our highly interactive, comedic show uses traditions from vaudeville, circus arts, theater, and music to create a lively and wholesome performance that feels fresh and contemporary.
The Jester of All Maladies
Temple grad and fringe vet Kurt Fitzpatrick was diagnosed with cancer in December 2019. Boo! But he got through it with a bunch of chemo, stimulating immunotherapy, heaps of Facebook love, and a generous supply of Fig Newtons. Join Kurt as he shares his comedically inspirational tale and sobering adventures of getting through…the C-word. Kurt Fitzpatrick has written, produced, and toured five solo shows in over seventy fringe festivals, as…
The Most Important Place In The World!
“Devilishly dangerous theatre.” -Huffington Post Naked Empire Bouffon Company brings you The Most Important Place in the World!, a devilishly satirical bouffon show targeting colonization with a Diasporic Puerto Rican lens. Two fabulously windswept tricksters, who are equal parts hurricanes and prophets, take the audience on a dance-filled fiesta celebrating USA’s torrid love affair with Puerto Rico. The show features our signature style of in-your-face physical comedy, lip sync, puppetry,…
STUNKERED: Stuck in a Bunker
Stunkered is a show exploring the dynamics of two people stuck in a small-ish space together for a very very long time. Using the naturally comedic setting, we will go through what they do when they are bored, when they are fed up, when they lose all track of the concept of time, when they adopt a rat just so they have someone else to talk to besides each other!…
Survival In Ruins (work-in-progress showing)
Survival In Ruins is a memoir that contemplates grief, motherhood, and slowness. Inspired by the recent birth of her second son, a father with Alzheimer’s, and mycelium networks – a body moves forcefuly slow confronting the reality of the making and unmaking of a life. Lost, forgetful, in need, revealing its triumphs and tribulations. How does one submit to falling forever? Survival In Ruins asks us to sit inside growth…
Sweet Honey Chiffon Invites you to Fête de la Ville Natale
Fête de la Ville Natale is a variety cabaret show comprised of classic burlesque, song, and poetry celebrating the beauty of black and brown queer bodies.
Surface Tension
Surface Tension takes a beautiful and daring look at a queer friendship. At points ecstatic, dark, searching, and joyful, this intimate circus show celebrates vulnerable connection through sincere juggling. Utilizing acrobatics, weight-sharing, object manipulation, and dance, Surface Tension addresses the fear of loss, the power of trust, and the joy of vulnerability. Surface Tension is the debut production from Company To X For, a grassroots contemporary circus company based in…
The Beauty Queen of Leenane
Set in the isolated mountains of Connemara in County Galway, Ireland, Martin McDonagh’s award-winning play tells the darkly comic tale of Maureen Folan, a lonely woman in her early forties, and Mag, her manipulative aging mother. When Mag interferes in Maureen’s possibly final chance of a romantic relationship, the war between mother and daughter escalates in ways both hilarious and terrifying.
The Earth
Land World Soil Nature Birth Creature Nurture Nourishment The Earth does not belong to us. We belong to the Earth. – Marlee Martin
The Case for Invagination #4
This performance is Part Four of a series in which Bindler’s scars speak candidly about trauma and desire. Imagine Mister Rogers had a scooter accident, a thyroidectomy, a brain injury… and the puppets in his neighborhood were the remnants of these calamities. Welcome to The Case For Invagination! This collection of solos arose out of Bindler’s somatic Body-Mind Centering® research on the embryology of the genitalia from a nonbinary perspective….
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