ABOUT
little lights for dark worlds
Since 2014, the Fox & Beggar Theater has used handmade spectacle to craft eight otherworldly stories for both grown-up and not-yet-grown-up audiences. Productions have explored the spaces between street theater, dance, puppetry, circus arts, and folk opera.
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To date, we have reached more than 10,000 audience members across the country, beginning with two surrealist nouveau cirque productions, Animalia and Tarocco. We kept the torch alive during the pandemic-- quarantining, camping and rehearsing outdoors (rain or shine) to create "Goodnight, Absalom!," which reached audiences virtually through the Oregon Fringe Festival. That October, our production of OMEN: The Death & Burial of Poor Cock Robin engaged over a thousand individuals with a self-guided, nocturnal immersive theater experience in the Blue Ridge mountains.
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In 2021 we relocated to the Upper Midwest and built the GONZAGO, a double-decker pop-up theater stage built out of a Isuzu NQR box truck, which embarked on its first tour in Fall 2021 around the Great Lakes. Atop our mobile stage, "Goodnight, Absalom!" performed for over 2,500 audience members over the course of fourteen free, all-ages shows held in public parks, organic farms, and community spaces. In 2022, we revisited this same route from Minnesota to Michigan with our devised circus show, "The Lonesome Spectacular!"
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Over the next two years, we focused on the production of a wintery and dark Nordic shadow play, called "Vanaheimr," which sold out six nights at the Heart of the Beast Theater in Minneapolis. In May 2024, a workshop production was created of "Tigre, Tigre" (fka the Paper Operetta"), a new puppet opera exploring the relationship between humans and technology. Stay tuned for information about the upcoming fall tour of "Tigre, Tigre."
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Our mission is to bring provocative, innovative, and enchanting storytelling to a troubled world, through a broad fusion of both performing and visual arts.​
The FBT has performed in the Midwest at In The Heart of the Beast Puppet & Mask Theater, the Cedar Cultural Center, and Powderhorn and Minnehaha parks in Minneapolis, Frogtown Farm in St. Paul, Canal Park in Duluth, Harbor Park in Grand Marais MN, DreamAcres Farm, Keepsake Cidery, The Commons Viroqua, Humboldt and Kadish Park in Milwaukee, Logan Square Farmers Market in Chicago, Madison Circus Space, the 555 Monroe Art Park in Grand Rapids, and the Tangent Gallery in Detroit.
The FBT has performed on the East Coast at the Montford Park Amphitheater, The Orange Peel, and The Diana Wortham Theatre in Asheville; The UNSCA Stevens Center, The Bardo Performing Arts Center, 7 Stages Theatre, The Peace Center, The Duke Energy Center for the Performing Arts, and The Hawk & Hawthorne Permaculture Village, as well as at LEAF Community Arts.
The FBT has performed on the West Coast at Oregon Eclipse festival, Portland’s Alberta Abbey, and at the Lookout Arts Quarry.