CANNONBALL 2023 MAINSTAGE SHOWS
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Shows by Vibe
$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.
Adam Sandler Jury Duty
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.
Dream Sweet Rough Man
Uplifting possibilities for feminist queer masculinities to take root in men's bodies and move through the world.
Homos! A Solo Disaster Musical Bitch.
Local Queer Dan Kitrosser wrote a queer post-apocolyptic musical but has always hated scheduling actors. So now, just like the chronic masturbator, he's going to do it himself!
LA PULGA PUTA
Join us as we create a space that defies expectations, challenges societal norms, and embodies the true essence of Mexican cultural expression. Bienvenidos a La Pulga Puta!
mike baby please
A willing reckoning of consequentials, shifting through wrestling, yelling, nestling, grunting, + fucking.
non-binary pussy
Part music, part dance, part propaganda, the work delivers explicit political and sexual language that is rooted in Marxist rhetoric and black female rap history.
Privy Privy
A voyeuristic homage to public restrooms as sites of underground cruising, an oblique absurdist take on consumption and pleasure, and a pointed retort to current legislative agendas.
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 Who Must Not Be Named
A ritual summoning by the Bouffon of the world's most beloved auth-, I mean the most powerful dark wiz-, I mean queen of the TERF-, I mean the de facto leader of the "Gender Critical" Movement.
Sing the Rainbow: a Pride Show for Everyone
Ants on a Log
September 8 - 30
Liberty Lands
Oh no! All the colors disappeared from the Pride Rainbow! Will you help us find them? Along the way, we'll encounter queer joy, self-expression, allyship, community, and our good friend Terry the Nonbinary Canary.
Something about The Dark and Pinching
A poem-like-dance approaching love and heartbreak from the perspective of two bride and groom-like clowns or dancers.
Split Bill: Aura & Glitter Baby
Aura by Britt Fishel examines the electromagnetic energy fields that surround living beings, including humans, animals, and plants, known as an aura.
Glitter Baby by Tammy Carrasco is a microcosm in which meandering dreamscapes, queer motherhood, and subtle spectacle collide and collapse into one another.
Split Bill: Tom Achilles: Guillotine & Johann Johann
johann johann by Zaina Dana is an immersive staging of a raunchy 14th century (older than Shakespeare!) sex comedy
Tom Achilles Guillotine is a cavalcade of original characters, poems, and mind fucks that leaves the audience wondering, ''Is this comedy?''
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?
The Secret Life of Gym Girls
The piece combines tactile elements of the gymnastics gym with the homogeneity of a digital world, emphasizing the jarring differences between the characters' upbeat shared lives and the secrets they struggle to keep closeted.