About Us
You arrive at a 110-acre farm in Ashfield, Massachusetts, a town of 1,700 people tucked into the western hills of the state. A hay barn has become a performance space. An original farmhouse provides meeting space and housing for cultural workers. State-of-the-art solar arrays stand alongside fields and gardens that feed the people who live and work here. In the rehearsal studio, an ensemble of artists from across the world is deep in a physical training practice that has evolved over four decades. In the kitchen, food grown on the land is being prepared for a shared meal.
The line between art and daily life dissolved a long time ago. Here, they were never separate. What holds this place together is not a single program, but an integrated system—artistic practice, community, housing, food, energy, and land—built over time and sustained through daily work.
Double Edge Theatre fuses the highest caliber of artistic work, a deep love of the natural environment, and an unwavering faith in human potential. We are a place of demand, deep research and development outside the rigid structures of institution, academia, and form. It is a place of continuous experimentation and necessary risk taking. We value awareness of the earth around us as essential to the ability to invent, cultivate, witness.
We are building a cultural home where artistic practice is also civic practice; where housing artists contributes to the stability of a rural town; where growing food and generating clean energy are acts of stewardship. Where buildings and the land are evidence that a different model of community life is possible, and the people—the ensemble, the neighbors, the network—are what make it last.
We would love to see you in Ashfield and invite you to get involved in our events and initiatives.
