Founded 28 years ago by Artistic Director Stacy Klein, Double Edge Theatre creates and presents original dream-based performances, including the Women’s Cycle (1982-1986), the Song Trilogy (1987-1998), and the Garden of Intimacy and Desire (1999-present), through an intimate, visceral, and long-term process of actor’s training, with music, image, flight, object and story, and through collaboration with artists and communities. Summer indoor-outdoor performance spectacles are a Double Edge innovation, and this past summer’s Arabian Nights has opened the path for the theatre’s six-country/six-performance Chagall Cycle. Since 1985, Double Edge has created extra-theatrical projects and collaborations in the US, Central Europe, and South America, which focus on training methods, performance creation, research, and exchange.  Most recently the theatre has begun a project in Russia, and a new US Farm Center Initiative, Conversations, which are dialogues between international artists on essential topics for the field. Double Edge has toured its performances, conducted research, and offered workshops in 19 countries and throughout the US.  To mentor a new generation of artists and audiences, the theatre also offers extensive training programs, including Open Trainings, for all types of people; Intensives, focusing on physical training and performance creation; and Internships, an immersion experience with the theatre’s ensemble.  

From 1994-7 Double Edge moved its home from Boston and developed the Farm Center in Ashfield, MA, a 105-acre center of theatre practice with two performance spaces, an archive, and living and resident artist/student facilities. In 2008, Double Edge purchased an historic 10-room town house in Ashfield Center to accommodate a growing number of students and guest artists. In the beginning of 2009, the theatre’s Directors authorized the purchase of the entire Farm Center, including the venues, and a farmhouse and auxiliary buildings, realizing a twenty-five year dream to have the theatre as an autonomous entity. The Farm today is a home for local and international theatre and music performances, development, research, and training, and serves as a think tank and center for cultural exchange. It is Double Edge’s mission to build a self-sustaining center, where artists and audiences of different backgrounds and interests can create a ‘living culture.’ All of the work of Double Edge intends to elevate artistic expression and cultural mutuality between artists and communities.