CANNONBALL 2023 MAINSTAGE SHOWS
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Shows by Vibe
FEELING HARD? OR HARDLY FEELING?
This shocking, sickeningly silly circus of S&M will feature experimental theatre featuring sideshow, striptease, and endurance art.
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!
Clown in the Round
Id Circo Theatre Group
September 10 - 29
Liberty Lands
Four clowns fool their way through some Shakespeare full of popcorn & sound effects for a radical participatory take on the Bard.
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.
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.
Family Acid Trip
A collaborative work of experimental theater and music about a family trying to heal themselves through a shared psychedelic experience.
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.
mike baby please
A willing reckoning of consequentials, shifting through wrestling, yelling, nestling, grunting, + fucking.
My Grandmother's Eyepatch
What happens when an idiot leads a memorial service for a long-deceased family member?
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.
Rat-a-Tat-Tat
Will this brazen young lady prove herself to be the next big Broadway star? I don't think so!!!
Sad Boys in Harpyland
Alexandra Tatarsky collages narratives of artmaking and despair into a semi-autobiographical tour-de-farce, as told by a young Jewish woman who thinks she is a small German boy who thinks he is a tree.
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.
Sinky The Pirate
Sinky is the opportunity to grieve, to look at that loneliness under a microscope and challenge how we can collectively find strength in a(n almost) post-pandemic world.
Split Bill: To Dance with A Purple Goblin & My Life With Shmike
In My Life With Shmike by Patrick Burke, two clowns attempt to retrace their steps from the pits of stupidity and figure out how they got to be so foolish.
To Dance With A Purple Goblin by Nick Ware explores mindful meditation, physical embodiment, and the practice of loving acceptance.