The Dark
featuring Joe Cullen
Awakened by one thought while putting away his toys at four years old, a grown man grapples with this same thought while seeking the doorway to nothingness.

Cincinnati
featuring Diane Slamp
Susan, a literature and philosophy professor, spirals during a university lecture and fractures her identity, her past, and the present with bubbling confusion and lunacy.  

“Striking and poetic” Backstage
 

Carol Triffle and Jerry Mouawad, the creators of Imago, have been called alchemists, magicians, theatrical animators, and physical comedians.

Defying classification, they have populated the stage with characters and beings such as comedic amphibians, acrobatic larvae, circus boulders, and metamorphosing humans in works that tantalize the senses, the intellect, and the passions. From adaptations of classics to excursions into vaudevillian existentialism, Imago's repertoire is as vast as the forms they shape. With commissions for stage, film, and television, Imago blurs the lines of the expected to break new ground, exploding performance boundaries yet maintaining humor and humanity.

Imago Theatre tours internationally while also producing a season at its home base in Portland, Oregon. The company's critically-acclaimed productions FROGZ and ZooZoo have played at the prestigious New Victory Theatre in NYC's Broadway district.

Mission

Imago Theatre's mission is to create theatre that transcends the limits associated with language, age and even gravity and other laws of the real world. The company has a proven track record of entertaining multicultural and multigenerational audiences with its inventively mind-bending productions. While the company’s approach has long been grounded in physical phenomena and fundamentals of the teachings of the late Jacques Lecoq, Imago has developed a distinctly theatrical approach all its own. Productions blend dance, design, clown, music, text, and illusion. Style, form and content continually evolve to explore ontological, philosophical or absurd elements of life, being and existence.

"A mastery of mime, dance and acrobatics."
-THE NEW YORK TIMES