–

Body transparency

Sarah Owens (’23)
9/3 – 9/13

–

Who’s ready for the juiciest dogs in town? A sun-soaked Glizzy Gala, a Hot Dog Hoe-down. Get ready to savor the taste of the end of summer at our cookout. Indulge in mouthwatering dogs crafted with the finest ingredients, perfectly grilled to perfection. Use Promo Code ‘Hot Diggity Dog’ for 20% off your first purchase.

The sun hung low in the sky, casting a warm golden glow over the backyard where a lively All-American cookout was in full swing. A symphony of laughter, sizzling grills, and the clinking of utensils filled the air.

A large, rectangular grill stood proudly at the center of the festivities, billowing plumes of fragrant smoke as the seasoned grill master expertly flipped burgers. Heinz ketchup, mustard, and relish top your juicy glizzy. Red and white checkered tablecloths adorned picnic tables, and patriotic bunting hung from the fence, creating a festive atmosphere.

A celebration of good food, great company, and the simple pleasures of summer.

Performance artists, mike durkin and Angela Trovato, skewers (so to speak) the great All-American cookout. Exploring Americana, TikTok culture, #TradWife, consumption, and understanding the issues that separate us this election season. This will culminate in a performative cookout experience.

–

GHOST RIDE or the play that blows away is an immersive performance that puts the audience on bicycles, following a food delivery worker into the afterlife. The piece is a love song to the bicycle that addresses issues of bicycle safety and transportation justice, as well as being a meditation on life and loss.

The play will be staged on a 3 mile ride along a protected bike lane on MLK Drive in Philadelphia. Audiences will pedal alongside the protagonist as the narrative unfolds on bike and at stops along the path.

Bring your own bike or rent an INDEGO bike! Discount codes available for INDEGO riders!

Limited pedicab rides available for audience members who don’t ride a bicycle. If you would like to reserve the pedicab, please email: [email protected] before you purchase a ticket to ensure availability.

–

–

College hook-ups, female friendship, football, and a medieval saint who cuts off her nose to spite a pack of rapacious vikings.

Set in the early 2010s at a Catholic university where boys are “burying” their faces in girls’ breasts as part of a schoolwide prank, Nosejob tells the story of a few sorority friends who plot revenge against a group of lecherous jocks. That is until one of the girls, Devon Chase—athletic trainer for the football team—finds herself distracted by more pressing urges.

A ferocious satire, Nosejob asks, how do we reckon with the messy sexcapades of our past? What do we owe to the legacy of women who suffered so that we might flourish? And, are the vikings kind of hot?

–

The Garden: River’s Edge

Nichole Canuso (Pig Iron School Faculty)
9/7 – 9/22

The Garden: River’s Edge is a guided experience for 6 audience members at a time, leading participants on an intimate and expansive journey of connection, reflection, and gentle acts of participation.

Since its premiere in 2013, The Garden has lived in many forms, locations, and languages. More than a performance, The Garden is a series of experiential, site-specific encounters that engages with the venue and manifests differently in each location. In this newest version of The Garden, audiences are led through the historic spaces of Arch Street Meeting House via prompts on headset, interacting with the architecture, the dancers, and one another through a series of playful and tender encounters.

–

A variety show featuring acts & arias from some of Philly’s stupidest & silliest!

These wack-tastic songs, skits and socially-unacceptable sock puppets pair nicely with a drink in the hand and a laugh in the heart. Enjoy a libation with a “scientist” with nothing to prove, get serenaded by a washed-out actress from Hollywood’s Golden Age, behold a charismatic UHaul box’s search for familial connection – all these encounters and more await at Pig Iron Studios this Fall. Just a jolly jaunt from festival hubs Maas and Icebox Project Space, MADCAP & BUSTY is the nightcap clown cabaret that Fringe-goers deserve.

Each performance will feature a local guest artist!
21+ only.

–

–

–

–

Poor Judge

Alex Bechtel (’13), izzy sazak (’18), Eva Steinmetz (’16) , Dito van Reigersberg (Pig Iron Co-Founder, Pig Iron School Faculty)
9/11 – 9/22

An original work of dance-theater cabaret is born from the discography of alt-rock iconoclast Aimee Mann.

Dreamed up by Philadelphia’s beloved Dito van Reigersberg, this live music mixtape is part Hollywood audition, part woeful tale of lost loves, and part spy story—all performed by a local supergroup of actor-musicians.

Through vignette and song, Poor Judge offers glimpses of an inviting, seductive Los Angeles and also its shadow: the frightening underbelly of the American success story. Be prepared for a night of lonely California highways, movie theater breakups, and sly acoustic reimaginings of Aimee Mann’s haunting catalog.

–

This piece is an interrogative: a construction that conveys the force of the questions that we face every day upon clocking in, or upon cogging in, as part of THE MACHINE:

We really do just show up every day to do this again, what the hell?

Cotton is no longer the fabric of our lives. So What is? What is the grand material of today?

When does something become so recognizable it’s unnameable? What was that video game clawed?

What is a hotspot? And What is it doing to my ovaries? Mom? No, BOMB!

Taking place on site,

Wifi under the skin

The faintest bit of hope giving way to a warping of time

A puzzle completed and the picture does not match the box

Infinite uncertainty

Innate confusion

Lobsters, cigarettes, straight lesbians, phone calls from our boss, human connection, video games, quicksand, stunts, deep extended tied lore, eavesdropping, holdingtender holding

PHONE CLAW FOR MISTER is a play on a play: a physical theater piece that combines clown, absurdism, dance, and farce to explore .corporate confusion and the corporeal experience.

–

Dead Dad Show

John Miller (’20)
9/14 – 9/29

Hi,

My name is John Giltner (rockstar name John Killer, folx artist name Sean Miller, pronouns they/them) and normally I’d describe this show here and also blow your all’s minds by the fact that I do beer AND weed at the same time. But that is NOT me anymore. I am now stone cold sober and only do weed.

Recently, a lot of bad stuff has happened to me recently that has devastated me into a really bad place. For starters, I caught my ex necking with Evan Deetering by the abandoned Septa cart in the Wissahickon, which is particularly devastating because that used to be our spot.

And secondly, I lost my dad to a fierce battle with cancer.

After losing my girlfriend and the break up with my father, my art has entered a new intense, dark and slutty phase I am calling my, “heavy shit era.”

My art is now about heavy shit only and I will be premiering the heaviest show you ever did see. It deals with death, loss, grief, losing someone like my dad, and Kentucky.

It would mean the world to me to anyone who came. I think it will be really good!!

TRIGGER WARNINGS FOR SHOW: Family trauma, suicide, death, substance abuse

Thank you all so much! I love you.

–

–

Visions

William Acker (’24), Lyra Butler-Denman (’24), Tyler Catanella (’24)
9/21 – 9/28

Visions shows glimpses of works-in-process, excerpts, and/or short form performance(s) to help artists see what their work looks like now and what it might become as we look toward the future. Each night is specially curated for one night only! Blink and these visions are gone, until next time.

–