ARound the World
in 80 Toys
Thaddeus Phillips
A magnificent tribute to cinema, theatrical creativity & reinvention. Paris, 1925. In a tiny toy shop inside Montparnasse train station, film & special effects pioneer Georges Méliès, now forgotten, faces eviction. Suddenly, a toy comes to life. Using 80 toys, hidden cameras and a movie screen, Georges creates an epic & magical cinematic universe to conjure up a Jules Verne inspired global adventure. This visually stunning & wordless production by Thaddeus Phillips fuses transformative theater, micro-cinema, stage magic & illusions.
Flesh
still Life
FLESH brings into play flesh that is bruised, raw, but also tender and above all in eternal need of the other. Rooted in his body for better or for worse, the human being is indistinguishable from his flesh, the incarnation of his being in the world. This is a visual and non-verbal show in four short stories, a contemporary fable that plunges the spectator into the thickness of our flesh. With humour and strangeness, Still Life company stirs us up in an invigorating way: from our bruised flesh to our living flesh, there is only one step.
EXIT
Circumstances
In a big, impressive installation with a revolving wall and floating doors four individuals meet walking one collective path. They move in and through space. They propel each other, walk, collide, climb, carry, balance and transform. As people, we are always on the go, but what if you can never arrive home anywhere? And what about the tension between the individual and the group? In their quest for independence, they need each other more than ever. They balance each other out, but also bring each other out of balance. A flirt with risk.
If I Had a gun,
I’d Take them all down
Paul Bargetto, Michael Rubenfeld
A man walks through Kyiv. The city walks through him. Blending live performance with documentary video filmed in Ukraine in 2025, this searing solo work is about resistance, exile and the dangerous seduction of violence. As past and present collide – from a 1911 assassination to today’s full-scale invasion – one artist confronts his own limits: how far would you go for your dream? How much would you risk? Urgent, intimate and politically charged, this is theatre that refuses distance. History is not behind us. It is happening now.
Landsfrau
Doris Crea Collective
When the last plane left Kabul, Afghanistan vanished from Ariana’s reach. In LANDSFRAU, the return of the Taliban and the withdrawal of the western troops in 2021 triggers an autofictional reckoning with war, memory and responsibility. Onstage, Ariana dismantles images of Afghanistan and builds her own counter-archive: fragments of family history, imagined pasts, longing and rage. Afghan folk music collides with electronic beats; Attan meets contemporary dance. Through a feminist lens, she confronts the quiet guilt of living safely abroad.
Aliens
Curious Industries and Dumbworld
Join a real-life mother and daughter on a road trip from Donegal to southern Italy, as they weave their personal stories with those of Italian immigrants in Northern Ireland. Blending performance, video, archive testimony and live electronic music, the duo meet present-day migrants, activists and strangers along the route, asking who gets to draw the lines between us and them. A meditation on inheritance, migration and those who live in between: the aliens.
Ten Thousand Hours
Gravity & Other Myths
This is an ode to the countless hours needed to achieve great things. A love letter to our bodies and the amazing things they let us do every day. An acknowledgement of the backstory that is often more spectacular than the finished product. Eight elite acrobats investigate physical skill; how we obtain it, how we perfect it, and how it can transform our lives. Through highlighting the nuance of high-level acrobatics, audiences experience a heightened appreciation of the countless hours required to master the skills they are witnessing.
Wolf
Circa
A gasp-inducing acrobatic thrill ride. Clad in Libby McDonnell’s form-hugging costumes and set to DJ Ori Lichtik’s relentless primal rhythms, the extraordinary cast grasp, tear, climb, leap and balance with fierce abandon. For Yaron Lifschitz, the wolf is a symbol of our untameable selves: liberating, anarchic and savage. The wolves evolve from disruptive forces of chaos into a ferocious pack whose intense choreographies overflow with raw energy and astounding physicality. Wolf is circus with fangs. Join the pack.
Clown Show
Geoff Sobelle
An ancient threadbare red curtain opens on a circus that’s seen a million audiences or more. The acrobats and jugglers have long since walked off the job, and the only ones left are the clowns trying to keep it together. This is a show of/about chaos, things falling apart, the center not holding, failure and catastrophe. Clown Show is a portrait of America as a falling apart clown show. A non-dramatic work that brings together physical theatre, clown, original music, and illusion to create a spectacle of disastrous proportions.
Werewolf
Binge Culture
The lycanthropy outbreak has begun. You have been summoned to the local shelter, along with other members of your community, to wait for the all-clear. The containment period is one week and the nights are pitch black, but your wardens are prepared for anything. Or are they?
Over the subsequent days crises emerge and during the nights, increasingly disturbing events ensure that suspicion reigns and that the stakes increase to a fever pitch.
