Dissociation
Two women meet, talk over drinks and it turns out they’re the same person. A riddle? Yes. You’re more likely to win the lottery than come face to face with your double. So, if you wonder on which side of the table you sit, consider carefully: Is that your doppelgänger? Or are your sides in conflict, and is that some slice of yourself you hoped would stay away? Are you…
Dream Street: Community Collages inspired by Tricia Elam Walker and Ekua Holmes’ book, Dream Street
Inspired by Tricia Elam Walker and Ekua Holmes’ book Dream Street, participants will use a multimedia approach to explore their dreams for themselves and their community. The workshop will begin with a video reading of Dream Street produced by students at Julia De Burgos Elementary School. Participants will then be invited to brainstorm their hopes and dreams for their community, which they will represent in a collage. Participants will learn…
CANCELED: Dinner! Franny and Connor Wrote a Cookbook
This performance has been canceled. Can two clowns improvise a meal? Dinner! Franny and Connor Wrote a Cookbook is an interactive cooking show live-directed by self-described food influencers with no prior knowledge of the ingredients, but a deep passion for food. High cuisine meets low class in this intimate Chopped-style experience! During the COVID-19 shutdown, Connor and Franny, two food-obsessed clowns, created Dinner! Franny and Connor Write a Cookbook, a digital…
Dream Sweet, Rough Man
By expanding traditional, heteropatriarchal masculinity into a practice of gentleness and connection, Dream Sweet, Rough Man uplifts possibilities for feminist queer masculinities to take root in men’s bodies and move through the world. We invite the high school hunk, 80s rockstars, frequenters of gay clubs and coffee shops, memories of trans boyhood, and ragged denim desires to play together, building options through which embodied manhood can thrive. Using dance and…
Dora’s Gently Used Dreams Store
Get a glimpse inside a makeshift shop containing Dora’s secret collection – the dreams and nightmares donated by past customers. Writer and performer Morgan McKenzie Kauffman merges simple magic, character, science and folk lore to tell the story of Dora and the patrons who make up this mysterious market. This interactive show changes every performance as Dora’s collection grows with each new audience. Shop the store yourself or donate your…
Driving Around
A provocative brew of absurdism, American naivety and dark comedy, invite you into an imaginative and fanciful world. Perpetual fabrication and buried social commentary are revealed with effervescent zing and cheeky truth. A show full of insights into what unites us and separates us, Driving Around takes you on a ride that is so far past stupid that it becomes compelling! Dhaliwal is regal, commanding… arrestingly unpredictable’ **** (Theatre…
Dildos and Body Parts
Diva D’Luscious presents “DILDOS AND BODY PARTS” written and directed by, and starring, Diva D’Luscious. Dating is hard—especially as a newly human, newly single mermaid. This original and irreverent modern day fairy-tale, straight from the clubs of Berlin, features six musicalburlesque routines interwoven with comedic monologues and multimedia to tell a farcical and heart felt story of love and self discovery.A wildly funny solo show that combines the burlesque acts,…
Discovering Rainbows: Creative Movement Workshop
This interactive creative movement workshop will be filled with rainbows and fun! Come join Sarah Gordin, Artistic Director of Philly Children’s Theatre, as we create and find rainbows with our bodies, sing and act out stories, and learn new dance moves! Geared for ages 1-8.
CANCELED: Diaries of a Honkynigger
This show has been canceled. Ever met a Honkynigger before? Meet Meagan, a mixed-race Black and White clown. She’s got a bone to pick with mommy and daddy. Meagan will fumble, flail, and cackle her way back to the truth. IF she can find it. She will chat with her slutty shadow from Vegas, chug the breast milk from her fathers mistress, and go door to door preaching the good…
Dark Places
The Perspective Collective presents Dark Places, a musical and dramatic journey into some dark places through song and ‘opera.’ These include not only physical spaces, but the capacity for darkness within the self as well. Along the way we might encounter a dark forest, a prolific serial killer, a recluse trapped by unsettling visions, and a wanderer trying to escape haunting memories. At the end of the road, we may…
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