The NONSENSE LAB will offer three productions, each for 6 performances, from September 17 to October 3, 2026, in The Doxsee, and three 1-time events (talks, installations and performances). All of our Lab Artists start with these questions: how can we work meaningfully with the nonsense around us? How can we create poetry and beauty through nonsense itself? Lead Artists examine the nonsensical world around us while grappling with themes of humanity, isolation, and memories through music, dance, performance, puppetry, and toy theater.

This season our Labs are led by three Artists from diverse disciplines. Choreographer Caroline Fermin’s Let Me Be an Animal is an evening-length dance celebrating the slow, awkward, sweaty, and questioning parts of ourselves. Associate A.D. Adam M. Kassim creates an explosion of politics, pop culture, and history in We’ll Jump Off That Bridge When We Get There; Toy theater creator / puppeteer Kathleen Kennedy Tobin builds a tiny cruel nonsense universe called The Charnel House.

One-time music and artistic events enrich the program. On Tuesday, September 22, TMT Community Café for the Nonsensical will feature a collective reading of Entertainer Zero Machine: A Cyber Peep Show Lyric of Illegitimate Theater by Ron Allen. Saskia Lane leads an evening of nonsense music in Nothing to See Here on Monday, September 28 and Theresa Buchheister serves up an evening of impossibility, delight and challenge in Uh Oh Manifest(o)ing on Wednesday, September 30. Both Saskia and Theresa will curate a gathering of artists to offer a confetti cannon of nonsense in all its artistic forms.

The Nonsense Lab runs September 17 through October 3 at the Doxsee Theater in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.

Tickets starting from $20: TargetMargin.org/NonsenseLab

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