Founded in 1982, Double Edge is currently working on The Garden of Intimacy and Desire cycle, which addresses the questions of responsibility and freedom, casualness and fanaticism, reality, dream, and play. the Disappearance, the 4th in this cycle, based on a collection of short stories by Ilan Stavans will tour to the festival ‘the City’ in Legnica, Poland this March. Republic of Dreams, the 3rd in this cycle, inspired by the life, artwork and writings of Polish-Jewish artist Bruno Schulz, premiered at La MaMa E.T.C. (2007), and was referred to as “…whirling, highly theatrical fantasia…” by Backstage Magazine. Its 2007-8 season includes tours to the Charlestown Working Theater co-presented by the American Repertory Theatre, the National Yiddish Book Center, and the University of New Hampshire. the UnPOSSESSED, based on Cervantes’ Don Quixote, premiered at La MaMa E.T.C. (2004). Described by the New York Times as “a fervid, otherworldly production, that brings the life of the imagination to the stage,” the UnPOSSESSED has toured to fifteen venues in the US and abroad, and returns to the stage in 2008 with tours to the Kennedy Center and Framingham State College. relentless, the first performance of the Garden Cycle, toured in the US and abroad from 2001-3. Prior to the Garden Cycle, Double Edge created the Women’s Cycle (1982-86), and The Song Trilogy (1987-98). Since 2002, the theatre has created six sold-out indoor/outdoor traveling performance spectacles based on classic novels. Alongside its performances, Double Edge creates research projects, such as the C. European/ Jewish-American Hidden Territories Expeditions (1992-8), and the US/S. American Spiral Mirror Project (1996-).

Double Edge’s theatrical work is based on long-term collaboration, including with Poland’s Gardzienice Theatre, the Charlestown Working Theater, q-Staff Theatre (NM), and hundreds of individual artists. From 2002-4, Double Edge initiated Ex-CHANGE, a training and performance creation intensive with artists and students from the US, S. America and Europe. The company regularly runs internships and apprenticeships for emerging artists, which culminate in second stage presentations of student work every 3 months. Other unique training projects include residencies at Brandeis (2007, 2003) and Yale School of Drama, and university workshops at NYU, Columbia, Boston University, UGA, Trinity/ La MaMa, and UMASS Amherst, among others.

From 1985-97, the Double Edge performance space was located in Boston. In 1994 Double Edge purchased a 105-acre former dairy farm in Ashfield, MA, which hosts artists, students, and community exchange, permitting the theatre to embrace the practice of 'living culture.' The facilities at the Farm include permanent housing for company members, two performance spaces, archives, guest facilities for thirty people, and a newly purchased 10-room town house for students and guests. Since the Farm’s opening in 1997, Double Edge has premiered performances, created long-term residencies with US and international artists, and created symposia involving US, Latin American, and European participants and groups. In 1999 Double Edge initiated the first artist’s think tank in the US to research theatre, culture, and creation, and to provide a place for professional artists to work free from the demands of daily survival. Participants have included artists such as Wlodzimierz Staniewski and Gardzienice, Anne Bogart and the SITI Company, and Tage Larsen of Odin Teatret, among others. Double Edge has been written about internationally, including in AMERICAN THEATER, THE NEW YORK TIMES, THEATRE JOURNAL, TDR, THEATRE IN POLAND, THE BOSTON GLOBE, and ABC BLANCO Y NEGRO CULTURAL SPAIN, and has received major grants from NEA, the Association of Performing Arts Presenters, the Multi-Arts Production Fund, ArtsLink, the Mass. Cultural Council, the MCC/Mass Development Cultural Facilities Fund, the Program for Cultural Cooperation of the Spanish Embassy, and the Trust for Mutual Understanding. Double Edge is the 2006 recipient of the OTTO Award for excellence in theatre.

We are a not-for-profit organization. We have had previous internship experience referred from all over the United States and over 20 other countries.

Our intern position is unpaid. A car is not required and mileage is not reimbursed. Housing is available (Amount: $ 2,250 total tuition).