This shocking, sickeningly silly circus of S&M will feature experimental theatre featuring sideshow, striptease, and endurance art.

What is a ''Radical Permissionist?'' Mae West, a queer, trans sex worker, wants you to be one. Almanac Dance Circus Theatre returns with this quirky and audacious piece that brings you into the world of erotic labor through virtuosic storytelling, inventive aerial acrobatics, and improvisation.

A veteran experimental theatre director takes to the stage with words, moves, and compulsive counting to expose his obsessive love affair with a poem that gives zero love in return.

A cycle of songs recounting life in Marseille, Paris, New York and Florida, intertwined with sketches about the absurdity of modern existence.

She stood now in overgrown grass, looking back at what was home, in the tandem tension between the past and present, between the sweet smell of honeysuckle and of red dirt clinging to her legs and bared feet. She remembered how the elders told tales to try to keep the young ones safe.

You and 11 other ''recently deceased'' audience members arrive at the agnostically ambiguous afterlife, only to be immediately slapped with a jury summons. Yuck! Who's on the stand? Actor and comedian Adam Sandler, of course.

Ashley Hollingshead explores the idea of artistic failure, practice, and success. All the while examining their changing relationship with their own artistic practice in this interactive performance/lecture/essay.

Watch the classic American dream as it plays out for one young clown on the heels of entering the job market for the first time.

Mythical figures, alchemy, ancestral knowledge, and the corporeality of the human experience exemplify the chthonic nature placed on the feminine that is lacking within Western culture's masculine.

An interdisciplinary art project that uses music, acting, and participatory decision-making to explore issues of human rights in Iran and our modern world.

Matriarchs of mayhem, truth tellers, cycle breakers, and expectation shakers. The carefree, care-freak women who raise us up. The Aunties are unbound, unbossed, and unleashed!

A contemporary dance show that explores the idea of nostalgia in a darker light.

A solo clown show exploring themes of isolation, denial, and the human need for connection. ''Somewhere between genius and clusterf***.'' - Scott Renderer, Wooster Group

A quirky comedic storytelling show about Kurt's adventures of working as a background actor in New York on and off for ten years.

Esther de Monteflores

September 9 + 10
Liberty Lands

A whimsical blend of circus and puppetry, delivering astonishing wire-walking, absurd humor, and an unlikely duet to charm audiences of all ages.

A stand up/cabaret/video installation mash-up diving down the kaleidoscopic, surrealist rabbit hole of the stages grief that come with the life altering diagnosis.

\Let's bite into the big question: how do we deal with death? Through comedy, dance, satire, and more inFLUX takes audiences on a romp through the anxiety of slipping away into nothingness.

My Mother Once Read

September 10 - 24
Liberty Lands

Come visit the buzziest, busiest bug colony this side of the Schuylkill, and meet the big personalities of our tiny community. An immersive off the rails experience that will give children the power to walk through the town as they see fit.

In the course of a day, three mythical figures await the imminent arrival of a cataclysmic event: the ''Boom.''

Treading the peripheries of narrative and performance, characters embody codes of power, gender, and desire using dance, movement, sound, and objects, paving a path that is equal parts absurd, harrowing, and unpredictable.