Double Edge Theatre is a cultural cooperative based in Ashfield, Massachusetts, where we have built a 110-acre Center for Art, Living Culture, and Art Justice. Since moving from Boston in 1994, we have grown into a vibrant hub rooted in artistic practice and justice. Our work brings together arts and culture, essential systems, and movement building to support and strengthen our communities.
Three Systems, One Ecosystem
Arts & Culture
Our performances blend visual poetry and physicality, spanning immersive outdoor works and indoor productions. Our training programs share the Ensemble's rigorous, holistic, physically based methodology. Our residencies provide space for artists to reflect and renew their creative practice. We also host events that engage our local community and contribute to Ashfield's cultural life.
Rural Resilience Infrastructure
We build and sustain the physical systems that communities need to thrive: affordable housing for cultural workers, food grown on site or sourced locally, and facilities powered by clean energy. Together, they form an integrated approach to rural living that supports long-term sustainability.
Movement Building
Long-term Art Justice partnerships are a cornerstone of our practice, rooted in our core belief in mutual flourishing, transparency, and shared abundance. As a hub for regional and national cultural activity, our model supports both economic development and cultural leadership. We also host convenings and gatherings that advance intersectionality and collective vision.
What's on at the Farm
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Initiatives
Greening & Sustainability
Affordable Housing
Food Justice
Partnerships
Convenings & Conversations
Youth Programming
Double Edge is pioneering a model for what a theater company might be in any given community. Led for the last 40 years by the inimitable Stacy Klein, they have become embedded in the small, rural village of Ashfield. Their very being reminds the residents of the area on a daily basis how the process of making theater is emblematic of how one lives and works, breathes and thrives, in a community of other humans.James C. Nicola, Former Artistic Director of New York Theatre Workshop
The Farm
Our Farm Center includes indoor and outdoor performance spaces, studios, workshops, housing, and gardens. Set within a rural landscape, these facilities support daily artistic practice and community life.
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