CANNONBALL 2023 MAINSTAGE SHOWS
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FEELING HARD? OR HARDLY FEELING?
This shocking, sickeningly silly circus of S&M will feature experimental theatre featuring sideshow, striptease, and endurance art.
$7 Girl
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.
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!
COONING INTO THE METAVERSE
CRACKHEADBARNEY is BACK! Erupt in laughter and pain and horror and fits of rage as she gyrates and contorts everywhere on stage.
Family Acid Trip
A collaborative work of experimental theater and music about a family trying to heal themselves through a shared psychedelic experience.
Forbidden Fruit
A contemporary circus show about freeing yourself from the conditioning to be a certain way, socially or other.
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.
Catholic Guilt
Does daddy Jesus's naked body on the cross make you wet? So will this show (no, seriously - there's water). We will laugh, we will sin, will we make it to hell together?
Ohnonononononoooo9/11MANComesREALLYreallyhardTONIGHT
A true to the definition 9/11 meditation, ceremony, ritual that takes you really way high up in the sky and smash your head into the glass windows of reality.
Pete Pannn: BOYZ WILL BE BOYZ 4 LYFE
A trickster's-manifesto-set-of-stand-up-sets from our fave little boy and mythic hero: Pete Pannn.
Sex Werque: Notes From the Field
Ella unpacks the world of sex work: the emotional and economic forces, the movement vocabulary, the masks, and the moments of authentic connection.
She Was A Conquistawhore
A woman and her vagina, a cowboy named Pete, find themselves brawling over control of their shared body.
Split Bill: Power Moulting & Man of the People
In Man of the People by Bellisant Corcoran, a sweet bum ponders how to be a good man when the world can't seem to agree on what that actually means.
Power Moulting by Kathleen Taylor disfigures and reconfigures behaviour so that it becomes impure, idiotic, and joyful.
The McManus Family Variety Hour and Interest Meeting (NOT A CULT)
Join the McManus Family for a night of performances, games, an info session, and non-stop fun. Could this be the group for YOU?? Give it your all, and by the end of it, you'll achieve cultural transcendence!
The Other Gardeners
What happens to (y)our gardens when we can no longer tend to them? What to do when our cup runneth over, and what to do when she's dryyyyyy ... we don't know, will you help us find out?
Whore's Eye View
A 75-minute mad dash through 10,000 years of history from a sex worker's perspective, unpacking the age-old stigma surrounding the oldest profession.