CANNONBALL 2023 MAINSTAGE SHOWS
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Shows by Vibe
Cirque Us Stories
Cirque Us
September 8 - September 10
Icebox Project Space
A circus filled adventure that will jump off the pages! Join us for high-flying fun.
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.
Cyborg Dreams
They are of the-everyone, the suburban families and urban loners, the workers in collars blue, white, and rainbow; they are the masses, and the few.
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.
Distillations
A multimedia and multidimensional journey through the anatomy of a moment, investigating causality, and emerging into the ground state of the juggling universe.
Dora's Gently Used Dream Store
Shop the store yourself or donate your own dream in this intimate experience about our relationship to the uncontrollable stories that come through us every night.
Dream Sweet Rough Man
Uplifting possibilities for feminist queer masculinities to take root in men's bodies and move through the world.
Driving Around
Perpetual fabrication and buried social commentary are revealed with effervescent zing and soft confrontation with truth.
Earth: A Guide
Humans are interesting creatures, and Earth is a singular place to see. This is a lecture - how to blend in on Earth, based on my own experiences. Don't get found out.
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.
Eve - An Alternate History (a concept performance/musical)
In this folk-musical retelling of the well known Bible story, Eve's heart wanders away from the man she was created for and toward a mysterious being in the garden.
Faire Play
Crys Clemente
September 10 - 24
Liberty Lands
This sometimes silly, sometimes poignant, faux-Renaissance Faire performance that confronts and makes room for what it means to be a queer, Asian American performer in a medieval fantasy world.
Falling Up
The Naked Stark
September 2 - 14
Icebox Project Space
A celebration of play, possibility, and the tenderness of being human. Six dance artists displace gravity to co-create new worlds with fantastical possibilities.
Family Acid Trip
A collaborative work of experimental theater and music about a family trying to heal themselves through a shared psychedelic experience.
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.
Forbidden Fruit
A contemporary circus show about freeing yourself from the conditioning to be a certain way, socially or other.