CANNONBALL 2023 MAINSTAGE SHOWS
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Shows by Vibe
The Human Musician
Come if you want to laugh about art. Come if you need to jiggle your neurons into making new thoughts. Part concert, part clown show, part banter-gone-eternal: this show is all transcendence and abandon.
The Making Of Self: A contemporary circus show
This show illuminates the universal aches of the world, and draws attention to the power when one's soul intertwines with another.
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?
The Quiet Hours
A piece about the time we spend in our heads dreaming of and dreading the events of our lives.
The Rebellion: Modern Warfare
Rebel Arts
September 15 - 23
Liberty Lands
A circus performance highlighting the dangerous social issues that are impacting the Black community.
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.
The Tale of the Slaughtered Hog
Phillips, a daughter of a coal miner, grapples with redneck tropes and questions why there is so much animosity toward our nation's rural poor.
The Torch Runners
Who are we to cary a torch? Why? For whom? Together dancers take the space to embody their personal legacies, their torches, and show them to the world.
They've All Gone And We'll Go Too
Exploring what it means to be Canadian in an American world, how music can save your life and how the universe is a far stranger and beautiful place than we give it credit for.
This is How We Remember
A meditation on loss and wonder - both personal and collective - and our responsibility to remember ourselves to one another in the face of grief.
Tiny Witch
Part cabaret, part fantasy fiction stand-up, Tiny Witch is a queer trans allegory, a ritual exorcism and just a damn silly time.
today the sun is red
In the year 2029, relentless wildfires destroy landscapes, degrade air quality, and endanger everyday survival. Taking place in both a lonely apartment and eventually a prison cell, Kab must find the hope in a better tomorrow and find the courage to embark on a new dawn.
Todorov's Dirty Laundry
Each night, a freshly generated play centers upon a single unanswerable question: Did this widower see a ghost or is he going mad?
Transhumance
Butch Mermaid Productions
September 25
MAAS Building Garden
A surreal journey across the landscape of gender in search of a place to call home.
Uncle Mike's All-Day Apple Butter
Mike begins by coring, peeling and chopping the apples, cooking them, and pureeing them. Then for 6 hours, Mike stands, in meditation, stirring the pot (so to speak but also literally).
Unplanned Obsolescence
Unable to cope with the prospect of their own death, Jax trains a household robot to replace them in hopes that their wife won't notice when they're gone.
Upline: It's Not a Show, It's an Opportunity
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