9/11 Remembrance at the SRT Memorial
Come join us for a remembrance tribute marking the anniversary of the attack on 9/11/01. There will be music, a moment of silence, and a time for you to share your stories from that day. Located at a memorial to those from Philadelphia in the World Trade Center at the time of the attack. Mark the morning with us.
A Bach’eh who wanted to become Bach
Bach’eh in Farsi means baby. The word resembles the name of the historically famous composer “Bach”. Bach’eh ,who is played by Qeychak, is an Iranian instrument that looks like a cello with similar techniques but can never sound like a cello. This piece portrays the struggle of assimilation of an immigrant with the abstract vocabulary of music and poetry.
Ulysses
Created by Elevator Repair ServiceDirected by John CollinsCo-Direction & Dramaturgy by Scott ShepherdText: James Joyce James Joyce’s Ulysses has fascinated, perplexed, scandalized, and/or defeated readers for over a century. Building on a rich history of staging modernist works—Gatz, The Sound and the Fury, The Select (The Sun Also Rises)—Elevator Repair Service (ERS) takes on this literary landmark. Seven performers sit down for a sober reading but soon find themselves guzzling pints,…
Liebovar, or The Little Blind Girl
Liebovar, or The Little Blind Girl is a new opera based on an original story by Philadelphia-area composer Misha Dutka. It tells the tale of an ancient, mystical village in which all the children have mysteriously disappeared, one by one, except for a little blind girl. The cast includes an evil ogre and a forest full of animals dancing to the music of a mini-orchestra. While some images may be…
Time as a Symptom
A subway station is a rich place for growing connections, believe it or not. If that subway station becomes metaphysical, there’s no stopping two strangers from getting to know each other and maybe, just maybe, falling in love. Time as a Symptom shows us how that can be true. Two strangers meet in The Below—a place neither here nor there, very liminal, very hazy. They talk for a while and…
Walking with Charles: Live Re-Enactment
Comedian Charles Blyzniuk presents a live re-enactment of his previous Fringe Festival shows, as well as what happened in his life in between. Half play, half live stand-up comedy show.
Trick Machine
Trick Machine is an eruptive showcase of the newest juggling that Zak has to offer! Surrounded by piles of wood and power tool cables, Zak McAllister will demonstrate what juggling has meant to him over the last 15 years. The show features slinkys made of juggling rings, robotic ball juggling, and cardboard structures from Latvia. With a run time of 55 Minutes, Zak hopes to show you a new way…
You shouldn’t be doing what you’re doing on that Ladder
“You shouldn’t be doing what your doing on that Ladder” deputed in February 2020 and now returns to tackle the instability of mental health in 2022. Using three different sized ladders, a solo clown performer, Peter Nicholls, strings together success and failure in his pursuit to reach greater heights of well being and ladder steps. Hilarity and terror ensue as the ladders humiliate, confuse, crush and even lick our troubled…
Jonathan Daylight Live!!! Motivational Speaker and Productivity Coach!!!
Jonathan Daylight is, in his own mind, a skilled motivational speaker and productivity coach. In reality, he is a woefully untalented and unloved person trying to navigate a world that values highly skilled people doing constant, endless work. This one-man show combines comedy, theater, and juggling to create something that goes beyond traditional motivational speaking. Jonathan Daylight Live! inadvertently pokes fun at at “hustle culture” and the motivation industry’s absurdity…
Threnody
Threnody is an original theatrical performance that hopes to understand, dissect and undercut our society’s relationship to individual grief, collective grief, and the ways in which we can inspire and support one another through hard times. Threnody was created with support from The University of the Arts/Pig Iron School and was first shared publicly at the Philadelphia Arts Bank in December 2021.
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