Lightning
2023-11-08 19:30 - 2023-11-12 21:00 UTC | The Farm, 948 Conway Road, Ashfield, MA, MA 01330, United States
Lightning
November 8 – 12, 2023
7:30 PM
After sold-out performances during our 2022 Fall Performance Series, we are pleased to present another iteration of Lightning, directed and devised by DE Design Director Jeremy Louise Eaton, and co-created with the DE Company. Layering large puppetry, shadow, and song, Lightning takes place at the collision point between the worlds of our internal and external experiences. We look at our past and tell the birth story of the inner monsters we both need and deny.
Box Office opens October 10 at 10AM EST.
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Community Day
2023-11-19 13:00 - 16:00 (America/Halifax) | The Farm, 948 Conway Road, Ashfield, MA, MA 01330, United States
Community Day
November 19, 2023
1 PM – 4 PM
We welcome you to this free event where you can fly on bungees, sing and play music, and learn about what is happening at Double Edge!
For more information or if you have questions,
please call our office at: (413) 628-0277

2024 Winter Intensive
2024-01-03 - 2024-01-07 | MA
Winter Intensive
January 3 – 7, 2024
Our method is based on search, not on form. We offer an adventure with space for both wildness and vulnerability. The unique, holistic methodology employs the artist’s full potential – emotional, imaginative, physical, vocal – to drive ensemble collaboration, individual exploration, and performance creation. The Winter Intensive training program is led by the Ensemble, and take place on the Farm.
Apply here: https://forms.gle/9WYmJwu49PXfxyfK9

The Living Presence of Our History Part X
2024-03-10 13:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | The Farm, 948 Conway Road, Ashfield, MA, MA 01330, United States
This panel of Indigenous leaders and scholars will delve into the intricacies and complications regarding Native appropriation. The panel will explore how these narratives affect Native and non-Native communities today and the possible steps to educate, decolonize, and make changes using an Indigenous lens.
The Living Presence of Our History is a series co-produced by Ohketeau Cultural Center and Double Edge Theatre with funding from Jacob’s Pillow and Mass Humanities. This series has brought together panels of Indigenous leaders, scholars, and allies to delve into the many intricate and complicated contemporary issues facing Indigenous peoples today. We lift and center Indigenous voices and offer Native-led solutions and action items for the listener.
This event is curated and moderated by Rhonda Anderson, Ohketeau Founder and Co-Director.
Panelists include:
Lawrence Bacca, Pawnee,
Julie Dye, Pokagon Band Potawatomi Nation
Vincent Schilling, Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe
Tomantha Sylvester, Sault St. Marie Ojibwe
Brittney Walley, Nipmuc
Adrienne Keene, Cherokee Nation
Please write to tickets@doubleedgetheatre.org for both in-person and livestream information.

SUGA
2024-04-17 19:30 - 2024-04-21 21:00 (America/Halifax) | The Farm, 948 Conway Road, Ashfield, MA, MA 01330, United States
SUGA Returns to Double Edge Theatre
April 17-21, 2024
7:30 PM
SUGA is conceived, created, and performed by Travis Coe and directed by Stacy Klein. Travis began working on SUGA in 2016 as he explored the Afro-Caribbean/Latinx history of his family, and their native lands spanning Belize, Nicaragua, and Puerto Rico. Klein, DE’s Founder and Artistic Director, watched some of Travis’ early creative process and began working in dialogue. It is an investigation of freedom, and the bounds—personal, artistic, societal, and political—one must break through to achieve that end. As a caretaker of a museum of memory, Coe touches/reveals/remixes all the aspects of himself—as Queer, Black, Latinx, and American, to find the path to sing, fly, run – toward Freedom.
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Community Day
2024-05-05 13:00 - 16:00 (America/Halifax) | The Farm, 948 Conway Road, Ashfield, MA, MA 01330, United States
May 5, 2024
1 PM – 4 PM
We welcome you to this free event where you can fly on bungees, sing and play music, and learn about what is happening at Double Edge!
For more information or if you have questions, please call our office at: (413) 628-0277

Open Training
2024-05-09 18:00 - 21:00 (America/Sao_Paulo) | The Farm, 948 Conway Road, Ashfield, MA, MA 01330, United States
Open Training Returns to Double Edge
May 9
6pm – 9pm

Immerse yourself in a two-hour training session led by our ensemble, followed by coffee and tea, plus an insightful tour of our center. Whether you’re a seasoned performer or simply curious about our work, everyone is welcome to attend!

For more information, contact Victor Figueroa at training@doubleedgetheatre.org

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2024 Summer Intensive
2024-06-03 - 2024-06-07 | The Farm, 948 Conway Road, Ashfield, MA, MA 01330, United States
Summer Intensive
June 3-7, 2024

Our method is based on search, not on form. We offer the adventure of both wildness and vulnerability. The unique, holistic methodology employs the artist’s full potential – emotional, imaginative, physical, vocal – to drive ensemble collaboration, individual exploration, and performance creation.

We’ll work daily from morning until night, both in Double Edge’s indoor training spaces and outside in the fields, hills, pond and pastures of the Farm. Layering our physical training practice with music, design, dramaturgy, large object work and individual and group research, intensives are a full-body experience of our multidisciplinary creative process.

Apply today: https://forms.gle/yhixzqtHvXEvqJZK7

Open Training
2024-10-13 10:00 - 13:00 (America/Sao_Paulo) | The Farm, 948 Conway Road, Ashfield, MA, MA 01330, United States
Open Training at Double Edge
October 13
10am – 1pm

Immerse yourself in a two-hour training session led by our ensemble, followed by coffee and tea, plus a tour of our center. Whether you’re a seasoned performer or simply curious about our work, everyone is welcome to attend!

For more information, contact Victor Figueroa at training@doubleedgetheatre.org
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Community Day
2024-10-27 13:00 - 16:00 (America/Halifax) | The Farm, 948 Conway Road, Ashfield, MA, MA 01330, United States
October 27, 2024
1 PM – 4 PM
This event is co-presented with our partner organization Ohketeau.
Experience both Ohketeau and Double Edge by flying on bungees, learning about Algonquin traditional food ways, singing, playing music, dancing, making corn husk dolls, and much more!
For more information or if you have questions, please call our office at: (413) 628-0277

ISHKODE at Lake Superior State University
2024-11-22 19:00 - 22:00 (America/Halifax) | MA
ISHKODE at Lake Superior State University
November – 22, 2025
In November, a few members of the DE Ensemble, along with partners from the Ohketeau Cultural Center, will travel to Lake Superior State University to continue developing a new performance titled Ishkode. Written, created, and performed by Tomantha Sylvester and directed and designed by Travis Coe, Ishkode unearths (or perhaps re-earths) and retells the Seven Fire Prophecies of the Anishinaabek. The Prophets spoke of a time when humanity would face a critical decision: to choose the path of destruction and malice or the path of life and unity. All that was prophesied has come to pass, and we are said to be living in the time of the last fire, where a “New People” will emerge to lead us into harmony and balance. Set in a technologically advanced research facility, we are taken on an unexpected journey through time by a whimsical, ever-evolving human… and robot?
We look forward to sharing more about this new work after our residency this month!

Ashfield Rural Climate Resilience and Living Culture Project (MVP) Dinner
2024-12-05 17:30 - 19:30 UTC | The Farm, 948 Conway Road, Ashfield, MA, MA 01330, United States
What does climate resilience look like for Ashfield?
The Town of Ashfield – in partnership with Double Edge Theatre, Ohketeau Cultural Center, and the Arts Extension Service at UMass Amherst – has launched the Ashfield Rural Climate Resilience and Living Culture Project to explore this question.The project’s goals are to:

Create new opportunities for local organizations, community members, and Town staff to discuss goals and ideas related to three topics in Ashfield: clean energy, nature-based resilience solutions, and affordable housing;
Identify avenues for community partners and the Town to collaborate on future projects and grant proposals to achieve community goals related to the project focus areas;
Grow Ashfield’s potential for creative collaboration and leadership on rural climate and community resilience in the region.

The dinner is an open discussion on the topics of:

Affordable Housing
Clean Energy
Nature Based Solutions

Food will be provided to in-person attendees. This will be a recorded and live-streamed event.

To RSVP for a Community Dinner and discussion, visit this link Space is limited.

Childcare is not provided, but will be reimbursed. There will be a reimbursement request sheet available.

2025 Winter Intensive
2025-01-03 - 2025-01-08 | MA
Winter Intensive
January 3 – 8, 2025
Our method is based on search, not on form. We offer an adventure with space for both wildness and vulnerability. The unique, holistic methodology employs the artist’s full potential – emotional, imaginative, physical, vocal – to drive ensemble collaboration, individual exploration, and performance creation. The Winter Intensive training program is led by the Ensemble, and take place on the Farm.
Apply here: https://forms.gle/9WYmJwu49PXfxyfK9

Leonora, la maga y la maestra
2025-03-26 19:00 - 2025-03-29 22:00 UTC | The Farm, 948 Conway Road, Ashfield, MA, MA 01330, United States
“Leonora, la maga y la maestra” is especially relevant to our times, as it explores the imaginative response to political violence by British-born Mexican refugee artist Leonora Carrington. Inspired by the magic, mystery, and humanity of her visual art, writings, and life, this surreal performance unfolds through an encounter between Leonora and Adán (an everyman) and her mentorship of a long line of male artists.

“… a peek into an expansive world – a hallucinatory, symbol-heavy tour of Carrington’s fervid mind.” – New York Times Critic’s Pick

Performances: Performances March 26-29, 2025 at 7pm

General Box Office opens February 27.

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Open Training
2025-03-29 12:30 - 15:30 UTC | MA
Immerse yourself in a two- hour training session led by our Ensemble, followed by a light meal, plus a tour of our center. Whether you’re a seasoned performer or simply curious about our work, everyone is welcome to attend!

For more information, contact Victor Figueroa at training@doubleedgetheatre.org

To Register, Visit: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/double-edge-theatre-open-training-tickets-1219646267819?aff=oddtdtcreator

Leonora, la maga y la maestra
2025-03-30 14:00 - 16:00 UTC | The Farm, 948 Conway Road, Ashfield, MA, MA 01330, United States
“Leonora, la maga y la maestra” is especially relevant to our times, as it explores the imaginative response to political violence by British-born Mexican refugee artist Leonora Carrington. Inspired by the magic, mystery, and humanity of her visual art, writings, and life, this surreal performance unfolds through an encounter between Leonora and Adán (an everyman) and her mentorship of a long line of male artists.

“… a peek into an expansive world – a hallucinatory, symbol-heavy tour of Carrington’s fervid mind.” – New York Times Critic’s Pick

Performances: Performances March 30, 2025 at 2pm

General Box Office opens February 27.
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Community Day
2025-05-04 13:00 - 16:00 UTC | The Farm, 948 Conway Road, Ashfield, MA, MA 01330, United States
We welcome you to this free event where you can fly on bungees, sing and play music, and learn about what is happening at Double Edge!

Summer Training Intensive
2025-06-02 - 2025-06-06 | The Farm, 948 Conway Road, Ashfield, MA, MA 01330, United States
Our method is based on search, not on form. We offer an adventure with space for both wildness and vulnerability. The unique, holistic methodology employs the artist’s full potential – emotional, imaginative, physical, vocal – to drive ensemble collaboration, individual exploration, and performance creation. The training programs are led by the Ensemble, and take place on the Farm.

For more information visit https://doubleedgetheatre.org/training or contact Victor Figueroa at training@doubleedgetheatre.org.

To apply, please fill out this form.

DE Member Summer Asado
2025-06-22 15:00 - 17:00 UTC | The Farm, 948 Conway Road, Ashfield, MA, MA 01330, United States
We hope you’ll join us for our Members Summer Kickoff Event, an annual tradition with our very own Carlos Uriona leading an Argentinian-style Asado (or Barbecue, with plenty of vegetarian options!). The event will include Double Edge updates and sneak peeks at what we are dreaming up for this year’s Summer Spectacle “The Heron’s Flight”.
This event is for Members only.
To learn more about becoming a member, visit, https://doubleedgetheatre.org/support-us/membership/
RSVP to members@doubleedgetheatre.org or by calling us at 413-628-0277.

Photo by Kim Chin-Gibbons

The Heron's Flight
2025-07-11 20:00 - 2025-08-03 19:30 (America/New_York) | The Farm, 948 Conway Road, Ashfield, MA, MA 01330, United States
2025 Summer Spectacle “The Heron’s Flight”
Directed by Jennifer Johnson and Travis Coe
Previews:
July 11-12 at 8pm
Performances:
July 16-31 at 8pm
August 1-3 at 7:30pm
Our 2025 Summer Spectacle The Heron’s Flight, directed by Jennifer Johnson and Travis Coe, is a performance which travels through the gardens, barns, and waterways of DE’s Farm Center. A great blue heron perches silently in a tree, then breaks the surface of the cool green water. Familiar and mythological creatures gather for a Midsummer Feast – an explosive celebration of love, dance, and flight. Walk with us toward transformation in an impossible world as we embrace the knowledge of the land – that each season of life is beloved.
Mark your calendars, you will not want to miss this Summer Spectacle.
Tickets for The Heron’s Flight are now sold out.
To join the waitlist, please contact: Tickets@doubleedgetheatre.org.

again, the watercarriers: Ceremonies from in the name of the m/other tree
2025-09-19 15:00 - 2025-09-21 15:00 (America/New_York) | The Farm, 948 Conway Road, Ashfield, MA, MA 01330, United States
Written, directed, and choreographed by Ebony Noelle Golden.
Featuring Jupiter Performance Studio.
Preview: September 19 at 3pm
Performances: September 20-21 at 3pm
What is the cost of utopia?
After delivering an earth-rattling prophecy, an infamous root woman and her loyal devotees vanish into a river, sparking rumors of a triple suicide. In truth, theonewhohasnoname, quiethandssometimesclapping and lilbigsis abscond to a half-imagined, half-remembered hush arbor. There, supernatural forces initiate them into the daughters of ellum, a secret society of earth-workers dedicated to preserving the ways of the ancient ones. All is bliss until the trio’s decision to abandon the faithless begins to haunt them. Will demands of home force them to return and risk becoming salt or will they choose eternal life and relish in a new realm of their own conjuring?
Mark your calendars, you will not want to miss this.
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again, the watercarriers: Ceremonies from in the name of the m/other tree was originally Commissioned by the Apollo Theater and produced in partnership with National Black Theatre. Support to develop, present and tour this work has been generously provided by Double Edge Theatre, Betty’s Daughter Arts Collaborative, Jupiter Performance Studio, Mississippi Center for Cultural Production, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Mercury Store and a creation and touring grant from New England Foundation for the Arts/National Theater Project.

Image by Robert Minell

Community Day
2025-10-05 12:00 - 15:00 UTC | The Farm, 948 Conway Road, Ashfield, MA, MA 01330, United States
We welcome you to this event where you can fly on bungees, sing and play music, and learn about what is happening at Double Edge! Admission to Community Day is free, but registration via Eventbrite is recommended for attendees.
Double Edge Theatre is committed to our environment. Therefore, we ask that attendees refrain from bringing and disposing of their single-use plastics at our facilities.
With appreciation for our small parking lot, we request that attendees carpool whenever possible. While we love animals, we cannot accommodate pets and have no available parking for cars with animals in them, so please leave your pets at home.
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Community DayOctober 5, 12PM-3PM

2025 Fall Intensive
2025-10-10 - 2025-10-13 | The Farm, 948 Conway Road, Ashfield, MA, MA 01330, United States
Our method is based on search, not on form. We offer the adventure of both wildness and vulnerability. The unique, holistic methodology employs the artist’s full potential – emotional, imaginative, physical, vocal – to drive ensemble collaboration, individual exploration, and performance creation.
We’ll work daily from morning until night, both in Double Edge’s indoor training spaces and outside in the fields, hills, pond and pastures of the Farm. Layering our physical training practice with music, design, dramaturgy, large object work and individual and group research, intensives are a full-body experience of our multidisciplinary creative process.
Apply today: https://forms.gle/yhixzqtHvXEvqJZK7

Ashfield Fall Festival
2025-10-11 10:00 - 2025-10-12 17:00 UTC | Ashfiled commons, Ashfield, United States
Join us for the annual Ashfield Fall Festival on October 11 and 12, from 10 AM to 5 PM!
Come celebrate the town of Ashfield with us, enjoying delicious food, lively music, and DE’s exciting Fidget Ladder.

Rainbow Exodus
2026-02-11 19:00 - 2026-02-14 21:00 (America/New_York) | The Farm, 948 Conway Road, Ashfield, MA, MA 01330, United States
Created and performed by Company Member Karol MatuszakDirected and designed by Co-Artistic Director Travis Coe
February 11-14, 2026 at 7PM
Rainbow Exodus premiered at our Farm Center in 2022, at a moment when “LGBT-free zones” were appearing across municipalities and regions of Poland—public declarations that LGBTQ+ people were unwelcome. From this charged landscape emerges one man’s journey to break free from the confines of his conservative upbringing, setting out from his homeland in search of a place where he can live openly and wholly, without hiding.
Following each performance, there will be a respondency with the creative team.
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Winter 2026 Open Training
2026-02-14 12:30 - 15:30 UTC | The Farm, 948 Conway Road, Ashfield, MA, MA 01330, United States
The Open Training will begin with of a tour of the Double Edge Farm Center followed by a two-hour training session led by the ensemble at the Ashfield Community Hall. There will be tea and coffee provided after the training session. This is an ideal opportunity to get a sense of what we do and how we work. All levels – even the simply curious– are welcome to attend.
We are currently offering an Open Training + Rainbow Exodus Ticket that comes with a ticket to Double Edge’s performance of Rainbow Exodus at 7:00 p.m. on the evening of the Open Training.
More information about Rainbow Exodus can be found here.
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If all spots are filled and you would like to join the waitlist, please email training@doubleedgetheatre.org.

Community Day
2026-05-10 13:00 UTC | The Farm, 948 Conway Road, Ashfield, MA, MA 01330, United States
Community DayMay 10, 1pm-4pm
We welcome you to this event where you can fly on bungees, sing and play music, and learn about what is happening at Double Edge!
This is a free event, but we encourage attendees to register. We hope to see you there!
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Summer Training Intensive
2026-06-01 - 2026-06-05 | The Farm, 948 Conway Road, Ashfield, MA, MA 01330, United States
Our method is based on search, not on form. We offer an adventure with space for both wildness and vulnerability. The unique, holistic methodology employs the artist’s full potential – emotional, Imaginative, physical, vocal – to drive ensemble collaboration, individual exploration, and performance creation. The Summer Intensive training program is led by the Ensemble, and will take place in Double Edge’s indoor training spaces and outside in the fields, hills, pond and pastures of the Farm.
To apply, please fill out this form.

Once A Blue Moon - Cada Luna Azul
2026-07-15 19:30 - 2026-08-02 21:00 (America/New_York) | The Farm, 948 Conway Road, Ashfield, MA, MA 01330, United States
Once A Blue Moon – Cada Luna Azuldirected by DE Founder Stacy Klein.
Previews: July 15Performances: July 16-August 2Thursdays – Sundays, plus Wednesday July 22 at 7:30PM.
The performance is based on lead actor and cultural strategist Carlos Uriona’s past experience with military dictatorship and cultural rebellion in his native country Argentina. Once a Blue Moon returns Carlos to Agua Santa, a fictional version of his hometown, after many years in exile. He evokes the memories of his past and the stories of the town’s colorful inhabitants as well as the events leading to his departure. The story reflects an increasingly present-day and universal situation in which ‘progress’ and ‘power’ displaces people, in this case causing a flood. It is a story of memory, culture, and song. We presented a version of this performance in our 2015 / 2016 season and are looking forward to re-examining this work 10 years later and creating it anew with our current company.
Members Box Office opens: May 6thGeneral Box Office opens: May 20th
For questions, contact: tickets@doubleedgetheatre.org
