It’s Complicated… This Gift of Life
Can a play about organ donation and grief be funny? Yes! Follow one woman’s moving story about how her husband’s tragic death led to finding new meaning in witnessing and being witnessed. A short and powerful interactive, darkly comedic and multi-disciplinary theatre performance about organ donation, mental illness, grief and hope. How can we look at the “sacred transaction” of one person donating their organs, their life, and another person…
CANCELED: In Their Silence
This show has been canceled. Grace is a burgeoning therapist. Merci dangles for freedom at the bottom of a bourbon glass. College sweethearts and newlyweds, they elope to Philadelphia for a fresh beginning. Stumbling into polarizing landscapes, they struggle in the margins of heart and home. Written by international playwright and performance poet TS Hawkins, In Their Silence is a choreopoem painting an unfortunate truth of Philadelphia’s social-political landscape. With…
In the Time of the Blue Ball
In the Time of the Blue is a participatory table read in which audience members read a script based on a short novel of the same name by Manuela Draeger/Antoine Volodine. In the story, an out of work detective, Bobbi Potemke, and a wooly crab navigate a not-so-distant future in which government systems have failed, police are no longer and infrastructure has succumbed to the natural world. The duo sets…
CANCELED: Hypocrisy the Anti-Sex Mystery (A three act play written and directed by Lisa Amos)
This show has been canceled. Brief Synopsis of “Hypocrisy the Anti-Sex Mystery”A Three Act Play Written by Hypocrisy the Anti-Sex Mystery is a very provocative play dealing with the taboo energy centered around sex. Men love sex. Women love sex. Conversations around sex take place in whispers and under the guise of the forbidden. Intimacy between people in love should not be consumed in the shadows of the shameful especially…
Here Be Sirens
EX ANIMA ARTISTS PRESENTS A REFLECTION ON SELFHOOD AND BECOMING WITH SCULPTOR MARLEY EDELMAN Described by the New Yorker as “erudite, hilarious, furiously inventive,” “Here Be Sirens” presents the daily life of three sirens, who kill time on their island as they await an endless procession of doomed sailors…the sirens re-enact the abduction of Persephone, encounter (and battle) their favored sisters the Muses, and leave no rock unturned to plumb…
Heartshakes
Heartshakes are the vibrations that bring us back into sensation. The waves a heart sends out reach though vast terrains, through time and space. This dance feels for the interval in which that wave is returned like an echo, reminding us of our desires, pleasures, and tenderness. Shannon stewards a group of performers including maris, Beau Hancock, mik philips, Kayla Rickets Michele Tantoco, and Sara Yasksy. Together they play and…
Hazard House
“Hazard House” is a site-specific, contemporary circus experience… in an attic. Inspired by dark rides and Rube Goldberg machines, and absolutely full of chaotic juggling.
Half Magic
A cardboard box mountain looms over him. Joe knows his job – to take these relics of a life and do the impossible task of sorting them into “Trash” or “Treasure”. But as he opens the first box, he finds himself drawn through a portal to the past, reliving the moments that shaped him. He hurtles from the stay-at-home care of his white mom, to the immigrant line-cook stories of…
Guilt Free
Guilt Free is a solo comedy show by sometimes comedian, sometimes model Maddie Silverstein that will take the audience on a dark and funny ride where nothing is off limits, from cottage cheese to Heath Ledger. Although Guilt Free is Maddie’s solo show debut, she has been performing comedy and writing for almost a decade, including a failed improv phase and most recently taking a Clown 101 class. But she’s…
Group Therapy
Can’t Get Right? We’ve got you covered with an interactive comedy experience featuring local performers, actual therapists and you! Come through, solve some problems and make new one’s if you dare. What happens at Group Therapy stays at Group Therapy.
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