Over the next couple of years, Double Edge Theatre will catalog and organize the audio, papers, videos, and photographs of four decades as an ensemble. Our Farm Center located in Ashfield, MA is the house of our living archive. This archive project is made possible by support of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
For an questions and/or further inquires about our archives, please write archive@doubleedgeatheatre.org or call us at (413) 628-0277
Table of Contents
The Beginning of Double Edge Theatre (1982) & the Women’s Cycle (1982 – 1985)
The Song Trilogy (1985 – 2000)
The Garden of Intimacy and Desire (2001 – 2008) & the beginnings of Summer Spectacles
The Chagall Cycle (2009 – 2015)
The Latin American Cycle (2015 – 2018)
Ashfield Town Spectacle and Culture Fair & We The People (2017 – 2018)
The Surrealist Cycle (2017 – 2019)
Outdoor Spectacles (2019 – 2021) during the challenging times of COVID-19
RITES: A celebration of Double Edge Theatre’s 40 Years (2022 – Present)
Ashfield Town Spectacle and Culture Fair
& We The People (2017 – 2018)
Ashfield Town Spectacle & Culture Fair (May 2017) and We the People (Summer 2017/18) were a duet and ode to the history of Ashfield and the surrounding Hilltowns of Western MA. There were eighty local artists and groups participated in the two-day event, which was researched for six months and took place throughout the entire town of Ashfield, ending in a 700-person parade and an aerial flight over the Ashfield Lake. The celebratory Community Day events, initiated during the Town Spectacle rehearsals and research, gathered people of all ages in our barn to fly on bungees and walk on stilts, to sing, play music together, and dance, to tell their stories and oral histories, to look at machinery from hundreds of years of history.
Culture Fairs & Performances
Ashfield Town Spectacle & Culture Fair (2017)
We The People (2017 – 2018)
Selected Video
