CANNONBALL 2023 MAINSTAGE SHOWS
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Shows by Vibe
A Scar is Born
A cycle of songs recounting life in Marseille, Paris, New York and Florida, intertwined with sketches about the absurdity of modern existence.
All My Little Words
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.
AUNTIELAND
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!
Behind Every Great Mariska Hargitay Is a Great Kurt Fitzpatrick
A quirky comedic storytelling show about Kurt's adventures of working as a background actor in New York on and off for ten years.
Birth. Sparkle. Death.
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.
Cheetah Banks
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.
Das Sofortvergugen (The Instant Pleasure)
A fast paced and silly joy-scroll, searching for what's beyond the constant craving to want more, within the contrasts of queer existence in a capitalist society.
Dinner! Franny and Connor Wrote a Cookbook
Interactive cooking demonstrations bring the audience into the kitchen with these idiot chefs to build something truly unique.
Driving Around
Perpetual fabrication and buried social commentary are revealed with effervescent zing and soft confrontation with truth.
EVERYONE LOVES DICK (The Life and Times of Dick Ripper)
A new performance piece about identity crisis, hubris, and the new American West. A ""modern Western"" in one act.
flooding is what they call it
An experimental dance work that investigates flooding as memory. As political climates perpetuate further constriction and control, this ensemble seeks out that which cannot be contained.
Good Person
In the world of social justice, social media, callout culture and snowflakes, everyones looking and everyones good. In this sharp and biting satire, Patricia! will hold your nose, open your throat and give you the dose of goodness you deserve.
Guilt Free
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.
Half Magic
Joseph Ahmed
September 1 - 23
Fidget Space
A hilarious, heartfelt, magical journey into what it means to be mixed race, to search for community, and to hold the things we love with care and criticality.
Keeping Watch
A journey that winds its way through growing up poor in South Carolina, the fear of revealing their queer and gender identity to family, and the general homophobia of the church.
Magic Lagoon
Through movement, story, music, and clown, this duo of anti-oppression facilitators, camp counselors & former athletes brings you on a warm and sobering deep dive. Do you trust us?
Midnight Dreamin
An immersive art installation telling a story of Yoruba spirits, guidance and mental illness.