Thursday, September 29 at the Maas Building Studio
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Bower Bird (Added Showing!)
4:15pm
What’s the best way to learn about sexual dimorphism and evolutionary biology? With a drag show, of course! Meet the Bower Bird. Nature’s fine, feathered, landscape architect. He has a collection of sexy bottle caps that he hopes you’ll like very much. -
The Case For Invagination #4
5:30pm
Imagine Mister Rogers had a scooter accident, a thyroidectomy, a brain injury... and the puppets in his neighborhood were the remnants of these calamities. Welcome to The Case For Invagination! This practice has social and political implications around embodying consent culture and as an antidote to the ways many of us have internalized capitalism, colonialism, sexism, and ableism.
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Stress Exorcist
7pm
An anonymous, shambling creature is your guide in this comedy meditation on failure and resilience, written and performed by Mary McCool, and directed by Jack Tamburri.
Weaving crowd work, chaos magic, and live digital vocal effects, STRESS EXORCIST brings the audience to a vital new kind of healing. Through a series of rituals, koans, and games, obstacles are lifted. Being your dark side makes magic possible. Ridiculous and meaningful, Mary McCool delivers a monster-drag solo spectacle of virtuosity in a comedy rite that will literally change your life.
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Visions
8:30pm
This iteration of visions features the work of Philadelphia favorites Adam Kerbel and L Feldman.
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The Most Important Place in the World!
10pm
"Devilishly dangerous theatre." -Huffington Post
Naked Empire Bouffon Company brings you The Most Important Place in the World!, a devilishly satirical bouffon show targeting colonization with a Diasporic Puerto Rican lens. Two fabulously windswept tricksters, who are equal parts hurricanes and prophets, take the audience on a dance-filled fiesta celebrating USA's torrid love affair with Puerto Rico.
Thursday, September 29 at The Maas Building Garden
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Carnivore
5:30pm
'Carnivore' researches the imaginative life of the material body, shaped by the artists' own experiences of pregnancy, birth and motherhood. Alternately humorous, grotesque, sensual, and whimsical, this site-specific duet explores motherhood, gender, and dance as performances of the body. Utilizing a three-dimensional approach to choreography inspired by pregnancy itself, 'Carnivore' conjures body-images, fantasies, and phobias both aspirational and horrific.
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Overboard Cabaret
10pm
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.
THURSDAY BENEFIT NIGHTS- Each week, the cabaret will highlight a different Community Partner. Donations will be collected for organizations doing imperative work for Philadelphia's communities on Thursday nights. We will be uplifting: Project Safe & PRUA , phillyrua.com
Thursday, September 29 at Maas Building Cottage
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Topside
6:55pm
Inspired by the short story "Game" by Donald Barthelme and written expressly for TiQ as one of its earliest livestreams, Topside follows two men trapped in a military-grade bunker, uncertain of their mission, uncertain of how they'll manage to survive each other's company. Alternately capturing each character in looping sequences, TiQ founder Joshua William Gelb will perform Topside continuously for three hours each night, in a durational feat of digital hybridity.
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Topside
7:30pm
Inspired by the short story "Game" by Donald Barthelme and written expressly for TiQ as one of its earliest livestreams, Topside follows two men trapped in a military-grade bunker, uncertain of their mission, uncertain of how they'll manage to survive each other's company. Alternately capturing each character in looping sequences, TiQ founder Joshua William Gelb will perform Topside continuously for three hours each night, in a durational feat of digital hybridity.
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Topside
8:05pm
Inspired by the short story "Game" by Donald Barthelme and written expressly for TiQ as one of its earliest livestreams, Topside follows two men trapped in a military-grade bunker, uncertain of their mission, uncertain of how they'll manage to survive each other's company. Alternately capturing each character in looping sequences, TiQ founder Joshua William Gelb will perform Topside continuously for three hours each night, in a durational feat of digital hybridity.
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Topside
8:40pm
Inspired by the short story "Game" by Donald Barthelme and written expressly for TiQ as one of its earliest livestreams, Topside follows two men trapped in a military-grade bunker, uncertain of their mission, uncertain of how they'll manage to survive each other's company. Alternately capturing each character in looping sequences, TiQ founder Joshua William Gelb will perform Topside continuously for three hours each night, in a durational feat of digital hybridity.
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Topside
9:15pm
Inspired by the short story "Game" by Donald Barthelme and written expressly for TiQ as one of its earliest livestreams, Topside follows two men trapped in a military-grade bunker, uncertain of their mission, uncertain of how they'll manage to survive each other's company. Alternately capturing each character in looping sequences, TiQ founder Joshua William Gelb will perform Topside continuously for three hours each night, in a durational feat of digital hybridity.