Our Shows
always unique, always exciting, always on-the-move
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- Nov 1 - Nov 17
- Feb 27 - May 19
- Mar 21 - Apr 6
- May 30 - Jun 15
This is our seventh season!
November 1 - November 17
Created and performed by Theater Ninjas Directed by Jeremy Paul
You are invited to a meeting both secret and arcane. Tell no one. Your motives belong to you and you alone. No matter what you see, no matter what you believe, you have been summoned for one purpose alone: to change the world. This is the world of Marble Cities, a place of imagination and power. Join us in exploring fate, desire and future of the universe. Produced in association with Temple King Productions
March 1 - June 12
A play by Theater Ninjas Directed by Jeremy Paul
Theater Ninjas are on loan at the Cleveland Museum of Art! We're reviving our critically acclaimed 2011 production The Excavation to complement the CMA exhibition “The Last Days of Pompeii”. This exciting partnership meshes theater, art and history to create a once-in-a-lifetime experience.
Support for Theater Ninjas' project has been provided by the Cleveland Museum of Art's Painting and Drawing Society, Dr. Nancy Clay-Marsteller, Antoinette Miller, and Mr. and Mrs. John D. Schubert.
Performances
See The Excavation in the Ames Family Atrium
March 1st performance requires CMA MIX ticket
Other performances are free!
March 1 @ 7pm
March 20 @ 7pm
April 12 @ 7pm
April 28 @ 2pm
June 12 @ 7pm
Ninja Days
Theater Ninjas are installed within The Last Dats of Pompeii exhibit. Enhance your experience through a blend of site-specific performance and interactive storytelling.
Fridays (3pm-7pm) and Sundays (12pm-4pm)
March 8-May 19 (excluding March 29 & 31 and April 12 & 28)
Admittance to the special exhibit required.
No regular exhibition tours on Ninja Days
March 28 - April 13
Written and Performed by Nick Riley and Jeremy Paul
THIS IS NOT A FIRE and you are not a mailbox and we don't pretend to be anything but pullers of string and dotters of eyes and crossers of tee's by way of a series of instructions designed and undermined to reveal secrets of the universe by way of conspiracy theories, group hypnosis, coin flips, narcotic cocktails, idealistic propaganda, cynical detachment and desperate hope. Artistic Director Jeremy Paul and musician Nick Riley host this comic, earnest and third eye-opening experiment. Co-produced with Cleveland Public Theatre
May 30 - June 15
Written by Ariana Reines Directed by Jaime Bouvier
Two inventors change the world with a wire, a woman gets trapped in her own mind and lost voices reach out for each other through a web of static. A beautiful labyrinth of language and humor, Telephone is a rare play that uses history and poetry to talk about what happens on the other end of the line.
Past Shows
Monster Play
Directed and Devised by Jeremy Paul
Created and Performed by Theater Ninjas
Lock your doors, bar the windows and build up the fire. Theater Ninjas and Cleveland Public Theatre unleash an evening of hideous, inhuman monsters. This original and unnatural co-production celebrated the nightmare creatures that haunt our dreams and stare out from our mirrors.
The Excavation
Directed and Devised by Jeremy Paul
Created and Performed by Theater Ninjas
An original theatrical experience celebrating the life, death and re-discovery of Pompeii. Blending live action, music and visual art, this interactive museum examines the way people reveal more about themselves when digging into the past.
Inoculations
Written by Darren O'Donnell
Directed by Jeremy Paul
A mind-bending double-header using rhythm and rhyme, songs and science, Inoculations is a crazed meditation on unconscious drives, millennial paranoia, and collective psychosis.
Peep Show
Created by Emily Pucell and Jeremy Paul
Three cards, each with a different woman's face. Choose one and step into the Peep Show, an intimate one-on-one performance inspired by myths erotic, existential, ephemeral.
The Absent Project
Created by Michael Rau and Jeremy Paul
Part play, part game, Absent is a journey across a bridge and through a century to find secret histories and hidden mysteries. This original experiential creation premiered at the 2010 IngenuityFest.
Anna Bella Eema
Written by Lisa D'Amour
Directed by Jeremy Paul
A dark comedy about a woman, her daughter, and a strange girl in a trailer park. Written by Obie Award Winning playwright Lisa D'Amour, Anna Bella Eema combines creepy campfire stories, music, sound and fairy tales in an original, highly stylized one-act. Co-produced with Cleveland Public Theatre.
Woyzeck
Written by Georg Büchner
Directed by Jeremy Paul
Equal parts epic drama and dark comedy, dream-world and slice-of-life, Theater Ninjas' take on Georg Büchner's classic play featured original music by Benjamin Czarnota and scenic design by visual artist Joan Hargate.
Heddatron
Written by Elizabeth Meriwether
Directed by Jeremy Paul
A pregnant housewife is abducted by robots and forced to perform Hedda Gabler over and over again. A hilarious and savage journey to freedom.
Crave
Written by Sarah Kane
Directed by Jeremy Paul
The Ohio premiere of Sarah Kane's dark, lyrical masterpiece, Crave is a moving exploration of need, want, love, hate, loss and hope.
The Beetlebug and Bad Worm
Created and Performed by Faye Hargate and Jeremy Paul
A story about friends, cruelty and bugs. Mixing physical theater and puppetry, the show follows the duo on an epic journeys that takes them to the heights of fame, the gutters of poverty, the halls of power and the kitchens of kitchens. Through all their ups and downs, the must learn to help others and get along… assuming they don't kill each other first. See them in action here.
Peripheral Visions
Created and Performed by Faye Hargate and Jeremy Paul
Mixing improvisation, physical theater and video projections, as well as themes inspired by pop culture, science fiction, big box stores, and the so-called "lost" generation between X and Y, Peripheral Visions is a story about looking for something that can only be glimpsed from the corner of your eye.
Mad World
Plays by Eugene Ionesco, Arthur Adamov and Jean Tardieu
A collection of lesser-known Absurdist plays that explores the way life can be darkly hilarious, hilariously dark and just plain crazy.
Aphrodisiac
Written by Rob Handel
Directed by Jeremy Paul
A few jokes shy of a dark comedy, Aphrodisiac tells the story of a US congressman whose affair with an intern comes to light in the aftermath of her disappearance and murder. Thru the eyes of the congressman's children, the affair is imagined and re-imagined in an attempt to understand the nature of sex, lies, and death in the shadow of the nation's capitol.
