Valley Traction
DEATH RATTLE is a live performance based on the play The Empire Builders, written by the French existentialist playwright and jazz musician Boris Vian. The original story follows a family, trapped indoors by a noise, and portrays their ensuing anguish and destruction. This new piece tears that script apart and reassembles it with dialogue and text fabricated from local internet chatter – conversations, images, and video found on Nextdoor, Facebook,…
Undersigned
Undersigned is a psychological thriller for an audience of one. For those who respond to that statement with curiosity (or at the very least, who are still reading), award-winning Experience Maker Yannick Trapman-O’Brien (The Telelibrary, Fair Trade) is releasing a limited number of public slots for what has previously been an invitation-only, decidedly unconventional production. Depending on your choices, your experience will last between 30-50 minutes. Your participation will involve…
Tragic Nostalgia
An atmospheric sonic journey with ethereal vocal layers, manipulated field recordings, and synthesized tones. Accompanied by abstract black and white visual projections. Developed through a process rooted in improvisation and experimentation. Inspired by nature, grief, looking back and meandering forward.
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…
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