Sohrab is Bumbling Foriegner
The Bumbling Foriegner does not want to tell you about his exile from Iran and his trials with stage four cancer to evoke your sympathy. Instead, he will translate his genius into something digestible. This is an absurd comedy solo. The Foriegner will eat hot dogs and will not drink his own urine. Sohrab is Bumbling Foriegner who suffers from retrograde ejaculation as a result of extensive stage four testicular…
Sisyphus & Siri
Darkly funny and mind-boggling, a play swallowed by a magic show – Sisyphus and Siri follows the whimsical journey of magician and creator Francis Menotti as he comically and mysteriously comes to terms with his inevitable demise while presenting his (supposedly) final performance. The even-tempered digital voice of Siri hosts the evening, interacting with the audience and even performing a magical interlude, mid-show. Featuring pieces he created for Penn & Teller…
Shterna and the Lost Voice: A New Yiddish Folktale
“ Extraordinary, Suspenseful, Mesmerizing” – “Shterna and the Lost Voice” transports audiences into the rich world of Yiddish folklore. This immersive storytelling production follows Shterna on an epic hero’s journey, accompanied by live original klezmer music and an exquisite papercut crankie. The Magid Ensemble (“magid” meaning “storyteller” in Yiddish) is a multidisciplinary group creating new work that integrates folk art, traditional oral storytelling and original klezmer music. The Ensemble consists…
SHITTER: Take Deuce
You are brilliant in the bathroom – you are wise, you are powerful, you are fully yourself. This solo clown mess is the love-child of Jeff Evans and his own butt. Get ready for bad science and badder art with SHITTER. Most human cells are actually bacteria, so is it any wonder things have gone poorly? The only solution is to return EVERY DAY to that place that unifies body…
SexFiles StorySlam
Sexual folklorist Dixie De La Tour brings her bawdy style of storytelling to the 4th annual First Person Arts SexFiles. 4 lucky storytellers will get to work with Dixie one-on-one to talk about sex, kink, or gender. Then, she’ll choose 3 storytellers out of the bucket on the night of the show! If you want to be a featured storyteller, submit your first line to stories@firstpersonarts.org. Use “SexFiles story pitch”…
Service!!
What comes out when you pour from an empty cup? Is there power in pleasure? Is it possible to love others without sacrificing self love? Let’s talk about it over dinner! Pull up a chair and explore these questions with your server, an expert on giving inside and outside of the restaurant, at this immersive theater piece.
Self Help | PANOPTICON
Self Help “an astonishing work of art that accurately depicts the incredibly complex soul-dynamic that is manifested in the therapy room” – Ilias Xanthopoulos (psychologist) Self Help explores mental health through the lens of a relationship between a therapist and patient using Movenglish® – a movement language in progress that directly corresponds to English. The translation of spoken conversations is complemented by fragmented and deconstructed phrases that represent what happens…
see me to see you
Join sharedelusion, a contemporary dance collective founded by Lucy Flippen and Magaly Gallagher, as they present see me to see you. We aim to capture through dance the beauty of connection between people. This work researches the understanding of one’s own identity through relationships with friends, with family, with oneself. To begin the research, Lucy and Magaly used Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza by Gloria Anzalda and Dispossesion: The Performative…
Satan’s Beach Party
The Weirdest Show In Town, Satan’s Beach Party! Featuring Philly and beyond’s best in circus, sideshow, burlesque, comedy, live music and more! Be there to witness the strange, bizarre, and the beautiful all in one place. Step into our freak tent and see what’s inside…
Sanctuary
From a pit of welled sadness and anger, ‘Sanctuary’ delves into the story of what it means to grapple with the pain that resides in systemic dysfunction. It chronicles the process of finding comfort in the bodily self after traumas, tragedies, and struggles a person experiences in dysfunctional family systems. ‘Sanctuary’ is not just a performance ritual but a transformative journey to alchemize the grief from our familial lineages. It…
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