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)
The Beginning of Double Edge Theatre (1982)
& the Women’s Cycle (1982 – 1985)
1982: DE was founded as a feminist ensemble collective by Stacy Klein, with co-founder and emerita ensemble member Carroll Durand, and several other women, in Boston, MA. Subsequently named the Women’s Cycle, the first 6 performances comprised a series of adapted plays including Rites by Maureen Duffy and My Sister in this House by Wendy Kesselman. The Ensemble was itinerant and performed in six-week rentals of various Boston theatres.
1985: The Ensemble located a parish hall in Allston, MA, a long-unused building at the Episcopal Church of Saints Luke and Margaret. Following renovations this was DE’s home for the next 12 years and allowed the development of a full-time practice (after the day jobs which the Ensemble depended on financially). A daily psycho-physical training and theatre creation process evolved side-by-side with the business survival needs of the company. The new home provided a base to tour the Women’s Cycle project / production to the Framingham State Women’s Prison, domestic violence shelters, schools, as well as international women’s theatre festivals. It also established an artistic mentorship and student programs that still continue.
The Women Cycle
Rites (1982), based on Euripides’ The Bacchae
Blood Rubies (1982)
My Sister, In This House (1983)
The Hunger Artist (1983)
Had She Spoken (1984–1985)
A Bold Stroke for a Wife (1985)
Request Concert (1985)
Selected Video from Women’s Cycle
