2pm

This Justice System is insensitive...it is care-less and biased! Courtrooms are overcrowded with stories of mis-represented and misunderstood cases. It's one big circus the way this administration juggles the lives of the poor and underserved.

Awoke the Musical brings attention to how mass incarceration has become a business and the pipeline from public schools to prisons.

4pm

a HAIR-raising experience of movement being influenced, manipulated and exaggerated from the hair on the dancers heads. Acting as a catalyst for the movement, HAIR essentially explores the physicality of one's head of hair as it's own form of movement within the body. How can our hair become the dance and our bodies act as a respondent?

5:30pm

Forgotten Solo is a three-part durational performance work that calls upon repetition and temporal practices to engage with questions of embodied alienation, relationality and absence. The work takes the idea of forgotten as a felt experience of absence and seeks to uncover how this absence can be a site of embodied realization.

8:30pm

''A hilarious, finely tuned absurdist'' (TheaterJones) and ''one of the most exciting and hilarious performance artists around'' (ArtSpace), Alex Tatarsky examines the links between clowns and compost. Contents include: the ballad of an unemployed court jester, a lecture that decays into a heap of dirt.

10pm

mio/ tuyo/ nuestro (mine/ yours/ ours) is an immersive performance project from Carne Viva Dance Theatre that moves inside the history of the 8 stages of love through the lens of 6 Queer and/or Trans BIPOC. Travel through the love of care takers, through the honest spoken thoughts of children, the 16 year old self that did not understand how to be loved but knew they needed it, the shared secrets and love of friendships, and those who you share an intimate bond with -- whether it be with yourself or others -- and tell yourself you have always loved all the versions of your human love catalyst journey.

1pm

BOWER BIRD is a multidisciplinary theater event featuring dance, film, and a design contest. If you've ever wondered what your favorite nature documentary might be like if David Attenborough was a drag queen, you should check this out.

2:30pm

In this semi-autobiographical solo, McGonigle dances herself into a world inhabited by the ghosts of familial anecdotes. Considering the stories she has heard, but never embodied, she amalgamates herself into a cast of characters that occupy her immediate and extended family. Exploring these repetitions of past and present, she fuses together fragments of alternate histories that interrogate the notion of family, and considers how narrative gets passed from generation to generation.Utilizing illustrative texts, recorded interviews and rigorous dancing, BLAZE paints an intimate portrait of a family that existed before, during, and perhaps even after McGonigle.

4pm

In this solo-performance piece, Rebecca Posner is taking you on a riverboat tour of the mighty Missiouri. But this tour is unlike other tours; she's going rogue! Experience a horny, attention-starved, new mom navigate the tragic story of the probable-possible-maybe-made-up-but-probably-not love affair between Merriwether Lewis and William Clark. She's taking history into her own hands and along the way tackling issues of motherhood, sexuality, and the crises of existence. All aboard!

5:30pm

You were a child, and that child is still in you. Without looking at the past and forgiving little you, there's no way future you can get past the past.

After years of working as a teacher, organizer, and facilitator, Matthew Armstead is pushed inward to show themself the care and accept the support they show others. Through poetry, movement, and song, Matthew embodies a chorus of voices. Black people don't have to be perfect. Queer fam don't have to perform to be cool. We all just get to be. Yes and...you get to forgive yourself.

7pm

This evening of Visions features work from Annie Wilson, Z Farrell and Ilana Rose (only on September 13th), and Philadelphia newcomer Colby Calhoun (Very Good Dance Theatre).

8:30pm

Oedipus in Seattle is an auto-theatre mash-up of Oedipus Rex and Sleepless in Seattle. In this unconventional adaptation, two different actors take the stage each night without having rehearsed or read the script. Instructions from a voice in their headphones will guide them through the piece as they assume the roles of Oedipus, Jocasta, Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks, with the casting decided by random chance.

4pm

The Squid and The Octopus, created and performed by Jim Julien, is a very intimate cephalopod adventure, a shadow puppet show (with knives!) This show uses a variety of puppetry styles and multimedia to weave a tale of multi-tentacled danger, contemporary restaurant culture and undersea lifestyles. The Squid and The Octopus will delight, amaze and amuse with puppetry spectacle. Before you order the calamari for the whole table, see this show!

7pm

The Squid and The Octopus, created and performed by Jim Julien, is a very intimate cephalopod adventure, a shadow puppet show (with knives!) This show uses a variety of puppetry styles and multimedia to weave a tale of multi-tentacled danger, contemporary restaurant culture and undersea lifestyles. The Squid and The Octopus will delight, amaze and amuse with puppetry spectacle. Before you order the calamari for the whole table, see this show!

9pm

Located in the beautiful Maas Garden Bar, the OVERBOARD! Cabaret is Cannonball's FREE nightly offering of music, circus, comedy, storytelling, strange anthems to pirate lords and ecstatic participatory rituals that are sure to be the perfect end to your night at the Fringe.

SUNDAY COMEDY NIGHTS- Our special guest host Tan Hoang is gathering Philly's finest and funniest to takeover the cabaret. If you're looking to run a rig with the Cannonball crowd, this night is for you!