The La Jolla Playhouse’s Without Walls Festival functions as an immersive theater where performance takes place outside of a theater building.
Photos by Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego Publications
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"The Spheres" performed by Australia's Strange Fruit
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Four celestial beings emerge out of illuminated globes to recount a tale of transformation and wonder under a night sky.
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"Gnomesense! A Puppet Happening in the Garden" performed by Animal Cracker Conspiracy
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A dance party–sing-along in a garden comes to life with stilt walking faeries, giant insect puppets and a garden gnome brass band.
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"Romulus Kilgore’s Mobile Happiness Bazaar" performed by UC San Diego Theatre & Dance
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An interactive, snake-oil medicine show selling happiness for the troubled soul.
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"Flock of Flyers" performed by Corpus
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A Canadian Flying Squadron has been left without any planes but continues their regimented training in an imaginary terrestrial airfield.
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"Queen of Carthage" performed by City Opera
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A contemporary re-imagining of a Baroque opera set in a grove of trees overlooking the Pacific Ocean.
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"Dances with Walls" performed by Jean Isaacs San Diego Dance Theater
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Dancers move against unyielding walls, challenging the viewer's emotional responses by eliciting both vulnerability and stoicism.
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"The Bitter Game" performed by the La Jolla Playhouse
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Held on a basketball court at sundown, the performance shows stirring commentary of what it means to survive while Black in America.
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"The Adventures of Heartman" performed by the Fern Street Circus
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A participatory craft-making and parade experience that explores superheroes and superheroines with a circus sensibility.
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"Seven Butterflies" performed by the La Jolla Playhouse is an ethereal cello concert evocative of the fluttering of butterflies.
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"OjO: The Next Generation of Travel" performed by Bricolage Production Company
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A perspective-altering adventure that explores the streets of the WoW Festival and the world of the senses.
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"Heaven on Earth" performed by Sledgehammer_
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A site-specific play with music and movement around the Powell Structural Lab.
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