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Cannoncast

Cannoncast

By: Jeff Evans
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Cannoncast is an exploration into the artists behind the Cannonball Festival, part of the yearly Philadelphia Fringe Festival.

Cannonball Festival is a month long, wild, experimental, loosely pirate themed performing arts festival produced by Almanac Dance Circus Theatre. We hope you’ll join us for this year’s event concurrent with the Philadelphia Fringe September 1st-30th. Sail over to cannonballfestival.org for more information.Copyright 2023 All Rights Reserved
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Episodes
  • Love you Love you Love you
    Sep 25 2024

    Love you Love you Love you uncorks a heady brew of mothering, dementia, and legacy. Creator-performer Sarah Sanford conjures real memories and mythic demonesses to witness a beloved mothers passage into uncharted cognitive territory. Sanford slips between characters and consciousnesses, willing an altered neurological state to take center stage. Part clown show, part tragedy, Love you Love you Love you exposes the stigma surrounding persons living with dementia, and the sorrow and rage of watching a loved one slowly disappear.

    Sarah Sanford (she/her) is a theater artist and educator. An early member of Pig Iron, Sarah co-created and performed in 8 company productions including Shut Eye, Hell Meets Henry Halfway, and Twelfth Night. Regional credits include the Arden, Lantern, Wilma, Theater Exile. International credits include Jo Stromgren Kompani, Volcano, The Riot Group. Sarah directed InFlux Theater's "The Choice" as well as the Philly premiere of Lightning Rod Special's "Underground Railroad Game." Sarah was an Assistant Professor at UArts for 10 years until its recent closure, and has been core faculty at the Pig Iron Devised Performance program since its inception. A graduate of École Jacques Lecoq, a trained yogi and dancer, winner of the 2010 F. Otto Haas award for Best Emerging Theater Artist, and mom to a natural clown named Jesse. This show is dedicated to my family, and to all my students past and present.

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    34 mins
  • About Montreal
    Aug 31 2024

    Imagine a world trapped in eternal winter. A journey across the harsh tundra awaits you. It takes strength to move forward when you can't feel your toes. A combination of characters, movement, and worldbuilding tell the story of a society frozen in this solo theatre show by local artist, Patrick Burke. That which is buried under snow needs warmth to recover. Will you see the magic on the other side of the blizzard?

    https://phillyfringe.org/events/thawing

    Patrick Burke is, first and foremost, a storyteller capable of crafting modern myths and placing them before your very eyes on the stage. Using a foundation of acting methods, clown, and physical theatre, he swims in the epic and grandiose territories and finds the human soul that resides deep within. They graduated from Le Moyne College with a BA in both Theatre Arts and Criminology as well as from the Pig Iron School / UArts and received an MFA in Devised Performance. When he is not creating new stories for the world, he is teaching clown, producing shows, and enjoying the Muppets.

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    25 mins
  • Nostalgia & Dread
    Aug 30 2024

    Sharing one role on a popular 90s sitcom, lovable twins MK + A rose to stardom before they could even talk. Now, 30 years on, 'You're Invited' to their first public appearance in a decade. In front of a live studio audience, MK + A navigate a crash course down memory lane of their famous fictional childhoods. Part illustrated audio concert, part psychological thriller, MK + A Rewatch Podcast asks: What dark realities lurk beneath our tendencies towards fandom and our hunger for nostalgia? The creators of Dora's Gently Used Dreams Store and Auntieland combine the digital tools of modern content creators with physical theater virtuosity to generate an absurd and stinging dive into the lucrative business of remakes, reboots and rewatches.

    Morgan McKenzie Kauffman is a theater maker and performer. Her original works explore experience design, audience collaboration, and immersive performance. A graduate of Penn State, she has directed and acted in many professional productions with Bloomsburg Theater Ensemble, and most recently Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival. Her original solo show, Doras Gently Used Dreams Store premiered at the 2023 Philadelphia Fringe to a sold out run.

    Marisol Soledad is a cultural worker, theater artist, educator, and facilitator. Her acting, directing, writing, and devising work have appeared in NYC, Philadelphia, Seattle, Boston, Miami, Maine, Colorado, Alaska, Texas, Italy, and Mexico. She is a graduate of Princeton University and of Helikos International School of Theater Creation in Florence, Italy. Recent original works include Read Me A World, Auntieland, The Most Important Place in The World, and The Seven Ravens Project. Her new play, Junk/Baby was recently a semi-finalist for the Terrence McNally Award.

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    26 mins
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