The Ko Festival of Performance begins 2022 with a pre-Valentine’s Day online treat: “Canary in a Gold Mine.” Not Zoom Theater, but made especially for the web, Canary… uses a comedic lens to explore fatherhood, marriage and environmental health. Locked down during COVID and desperate to make theatre, Piti Theatre’s Jonathan Mirin turns the camera on…
After a sold-out live run of MOVING WATER, the Ko Festival’s 30th “Justice, Environmental Safety and Climate Change” season concludes with the premiere of HAWAII FIVE-G: Canary in the Gold Mine. The production is made specifically for online viewing by and with Jonathan Mirin of Piti Theatre Company. With a partner sickened by…
The Ko Festival of Performance is teaming up with Serious Play Theatre Ensemble for the live and digital premieres of “Moving Water.” Devised by Serious Play and written by Eric Henry Sanders, the piece is a multi-media physical theater piece centering on climate change, the global water crisis, and our human relationship…
The Ko Festival of Performance’s 30th season will feature three different productions centering the themes of Justice, Environmental Safety and Climate Change, plus two different weekend workshops. With Amherst College’s COVID-driven cancellation of all outside summer programs, the Ko Festival will be presenting the bulk of its season online, however…
July 5—August 4, 2019 on the Amherst College campus in Amherst, MA AMHERST, MA – The Ko Festival of Performance, in its 28th summer season on the Amherst College campus, is a perennially popular summer experience in Western Massachusetts, featuring five weeks of theatrical performances, the KoFest Story Slam, and three 6-day intensive theater…
