Show Chronology

1963-1965

  • The Story of the World
  • The Christmas Story
  • The King Story
  • Eating and Drinking in the Year of Our Lord
  • Leaf Feeling the Moonlight
  • The Pied Piper of Harlem
  • The Puppet Christ
  • Chicken Story
  • Gray Lady Cantata #1
  • Wounds of Vietnam

1966

  • Fire

1967-1968

  • The Dead Man Rises
  • A Man Says Goodbye to his Mother
  • Gray Lady Cantata #1

1969

  • The Cry of the People for Meat
  • Theater of War
  • Blue Raven Beauty

1970

  • Gray Lady Cantata
  • Our Domestic Resurrection Circus (hereafter “ODRC”)

1971

  • Bird catcher in Hell
  • Gray Lady Cantata #2 + #3
  • The Christmas Story
  • The Fourteen Stations of the Cross

1972-1973

  • The Fourteen Stations of the Cross
  • That Simple Light May Rise out of Complicated Darkness

1974

  • Stations of the Cross (southern tour)
  • Hallelujah
  • Laos
  • Gray Lady Canada #4 + #5
  • Harvey Mcleod
  • The Revenge of the Law
  • Attica
  • Jepthe

1975

  • ODRC – Homage to Ishi
  • Gray Lady Cantata #6
  • Ishi
  • The Last of the Indians
  • Jesu Meine Freude

1976

  • ODRC – Bicentennial
  • White Horse Butcher
  • Passion

1977

  • Masaniello (77-78)
  • Joan of Arc (77-82)
  • ORDC – Masaniello
  • The Lamentations of Jeremiah the Prophet
  • Carmina Burana
  • White Horse Butcher

1978

  • ODRC Oswald Von Wolkenstein’
  • Ave Maris Stella

1979

  • The Washer Woman Nativity
  • White Horse Butcher
  • ODRC AH!/Washerwoman Cantata #1
  • Joan of Arc

1980

  • Stations of the Cross
  • The Story of Bread
  • Washerwoman Nativity
  • Histoire Du Pain

1981

  • Swords and Ploughshares
  • Goya
  • Woyzeck
  • The Story of One who set out to study Fear
  • ODRC: The Fight Against the End of the World
  • Venus rising from the Water

1982

  • The Thunderstorm of the Youngest Child
  • ODRC: St. Francis
  • Fear
  • Diagonal Man-Theory

1983

  • Fight Against the end of the World Pageant
  • Diagonal Man: Theory and Practice
  • ODRC: Domestic Insurrection
  • The End Falls before the Beginning
  • Insurrection Opera Oratorio

1984

  • ODRC: Central America and Liberation Theology
  • Josephine the Singer
  • Crucifixion and Resurrection of Arch-Bishop Romero of El Salvador

1985

  • ODRC: Nicaragua and Bach
  • Mozart Requiem
  • Door
  • Ex Voto
  • Daily News Nativity

1986

  • Ex Voto II
  • Bach’s Christ Lag in Todesbanden
  • Ex Voto III
  • The Hunger Cantata
  • Diagonal Man
  • Josephine
  • Farmer’s Dream?
  • Hallelujah
  • Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms
  • The Evils of Power

1987

  • Uneasy Equilibrium of 2 Societies
  • Hunger Cantata
  • ORDC: Archetypical Slogan Circus; The Constitution ?
  • Passion of San Jose De Me Steppe (1 show Nicaragua)
  • Life and Death of the Fireman

1988

  • ODRC:  The Principle of Hope

1989

  • ODRC: The State of the Planet

1990

  • ODRC: Teatrum Mundi
  • Metropolitan Indian Report
  • Uprising of the Beast
  • The James Bay Pageant

1991

  • Columbus Show: The Inside Story and the Outside Story
  • Insurrection Oratorio: One Dimensional Man
  • The Triumph Of Capitalism Pageant
  • ODRC: the Triumph of Capitalism
  • Vertep Nativity

1992

  • President and Chair
  • Persephone
  • revival of Mississippi
  • revival of Man Says Goodbye to His Mother
  • ODRC: One Dimensional Man
  • Nativity 1992
  • Axe and Angel
  • Stone Soup

1993

  • Fly or Die
  • The Old Art of Puppetry in the New World Order
  • revival – St Francis Preaches to the Birds
  • Kasper small shows
  • ODRC
  • Nativity 1993

1994

  • Budhoo’s Letter of Resignation from the IMF
  • Dirty Dishes
  • Garbageman Cantata
  • ODRC: Karl Marx & Frogs
  • Karl Marx Nativity
  • Revival of Passion Play for Chico Mendez

1995

  • Budhoo’s Letter of Resignation from the IMF
  • Passion Play for Bosnia
  • Grey Lady Cantata #2
  • Oedipus Rex with (Charlie Morrow)
  • ODRC: Maximum Security Democracy

1996

  • The Passion of Emiliano Zapata
  • The American Sleep Pageant
  • Brother Hypocrite
  • Insurrection Cantata
  • revival: Axe and Angel
  • ODRC: The Green Man Circus
  • Nativity

1997

  • City of Brotherly Love Passion Play (MOVE Passion Play)
  • B2 Bomber show
  • New version of Mr. Budhoo’s Letter of Resignation from the IMF
  • Delivery

1998

  • ODRC: Gates of Hell (last ODRC)
  • Insurrection mass with a Funeral march for a Rotten Idea
  • The Proletarians
  • The Penny Opera
  • The Bread Baker’s Cantata
  • The Community Gardens Passion Play

1999

  • Revival of Joan of Arc
  • Bread Baker’s Cantata
  • Humdrum Glorification Kaboodle Performances (replacing ODRC)

2000

  • The Paper Mache Cathedral of the Seven Basic Needs
  • Insurrection mass with a Funeral march for a Rotten Idea
  • Red Zone of Genoa Oratorio

2001

  • Solomon Grundy Circus
  • Radical Cheese Festival
  • Public Participation Uprising
  • World Bank protest
  • Depleted Uranium Cantata

2002

  • Grey Lady Cantata
  • First Revival of Penny Opera
  • Insurrection Mass with a Funeral March for a Rotten Idea
  • Circus of the Possibilitarians
  • How to turn Distress into Success

2003

  • Victory Over Everything Circus and Pageant
  • Full Spectrum Domination
  • Enemy of Nature Oratorio

2004

  • Imminent Attack
  • Insurrection Mass with Funeral March for a Rotten Idea
  • First World Insurrection Circus
  • Upsidedown World Arise Circus
  • Light Shining in Glover
  • World on Fire
  • Daughter Courage (Rachel Corrie)
  • Shoes

2005

  • National Circus of the Correct Moment
  • Cardboard Celebration Circus
  • Passion Play of the Correct Moment
  • How to Turn Distress into Success

2006

  • Daughter Courage
  • Battle of Terrorists and Horrorists
  • Victory Circus and Pageant
  • Welcome Circus
  • Ice Cold Reality Under The Feet of the Occupier
  • Lubberland: No, No, Yes

2007

  • Everything is Fine Circus
  • Battle of the Terrorists and Horrorists
  • How to turn Distress into Success
  • Guantanamo
  • Lubberland: World Can’t Wait Dances

2008

  • Divine Reality Comedy Circus
  • Guantanamo Show
  • Storm Office
  • Sourdough Philosophy Circus

2009

  • Sourdough Philosophy Circus
  • Sourdough Philosophy Cabaret
  • We sh Cantastoria
  • Mud Season Circus with Danville Elementary
  • Dirt Cheap Money Circus
  • Dirt Cheap Money Pageant
  • Joan of Arc
  • White Horse Butcher
  • Dirt Cheap Money Cabaret
  • Dirt Cheap Opera
  • Tear open the door of Heaven
  • This
  • Requiem for Haiti Relief
  • Lubberland: 13 Dirt Floor Cathedral Dances

2010

  • Decapitalization Circus

2011

  • Man=Carrot Circus

2012

  • The Complete Everything Everywhere Dance Circus
  • Pageant of the Possibilitarians

2013

  • Total This and That Circus
  • Shatterer of Worlds
  • A Thing Done in A Seeing Place

2014

  • Piero della Francesca
  • Birdcatcher in Hell (revival)
  • Captain Boycott
  • A Thing Done in a Seeing Place
  • The Horizontalists
  • Public Access Center for the Obvious Presents: History
  • Public Access Center for the Obvious Presents: The Situation
  • Nothing Is Not Ready Circus
  • Gaza Emergency Pageant
  • Tar Sands Manifesto Pageant
  • Fire (revival)

2015

  • Overtakelessness Circus
  • Comet’s Passage Over Reality Pageant
  • Underneath the Above Show #1 (inspired by the forthcoming elections in the greatest country in the history of the universe)
  • Dust
  • The Seditious Conspiracy Theater Presents: A monument to political prisoner Oscar Lopez Rivera

2016

  • Whatforward Circus
  • Onward Pageant
  • Disordering the Existing Order of Life Oratorio
  • Faust 3
  • The Gates of Unfinished Life
  • TINA (Cantastoria)
  • Honey Let’s Go Home

2017

  • Our Domestic Insurrection Circus & Pageant
  • Post-Apocalypse for ¾ Empire (Cantastoria)
  • Mahmoud Darwish (Cantastoria)
  • The Basic Byebye Show
  • The Honey Let’s Go Home Opera
  • Dignity Milk
  • Water Protectors’ Parade
  • Prison Demolition and Composting Parade

2018

  • The Grasshopper Rebellion Circus & Pageant
  •  The Basic Byebye Show
  • Out of Joint Hamlet
  • Nieve en las Cordilleras
  • Grasshopper Rebellion (show)
  • Grasshopper Rebellion Circus and Naked Truth Pageant
  • Or Else
  • Eisler Or Else
  • Life Little Life
  • Zero Degrees (cantastoria)
  • Gaza (cantastoria)

2019

    • Diagonal Life: Theory and Praxis
    • The Diagonal Yes (Cantastoria)
    • The Diagonal Man Imperative
    • Man on Fire
    • Emma
    • Diagonal Life Circus and Normality Pageant
    • The Extiction Rebellion Parade
    • The Essential Furthermore
    • The Bad Bedsheet Existibility Show

2020

  • Diagonal Life theory and Praxis Cross Country Tour
  • Drive Way Circus
  • Winter Pageant
  • The Trident Show
  • The Non Essentialists at Work (Cantastoria)
  • Paper Man and Paper Woman go to the Moon
  • Domestic Insurrection and resurrection Service
  • Insurrection and Resurrection services
  • The Combined Insurrection and Resurrection Services Presents: The Praise and Denunciation Show
  • Insurrection and Resurrection Service Circus
  • Insurrection and Resurrection Services with No Justice No Peace Parade and Mitigation Wall Presentation

2021

  • Parking Lot Dance Company
  • Declaration of Light
  • The History of Laughter ( A Collaboration with the Boxcutter Collective)
  • The Persians
  • Our Domestic Resurrection Circus and Pageant

2022

  • The Persians
  • Finished Waiting
  • The Theory of Our Needs
  • Ophelia
  • Apocalypse Defiance Circus
  • Anti Apocalypse Rally
  • The University of Majd (Revival)
  • The Parking Lot Dance Company Shows

2023

  • Inflammatory Earthling Rants (with Help From Kropotkin)
  • Idiots of the World Unite Against the Idiot System
  • Hypocrisy Democracy Dance Company Shows
  • Mother Dirt Church Services
  • The Heart of the Matter