The Garden Cycle Performance Series comprises the entire Garden Cycle, including UnPOSSESSED, Republic of Dreams, and the Disappearance.

the UnPOSSESSED is based on the story of Don Quixote and fuses Double Edge's unique performance methodology with popular circus arts, aerial work, shadow puppets, stilts, and commedia dell'arte with live original music and stunning imagery. This work, which celebrated the 400th anniversary of Cervantes's novel, re-imagines the story of Don Quixote's mad quest for idealism in the face of destruction.

Republic of Dreams is drawn from the magic realism writings and imaginings of WWII-era Polish-Jewish artist Bruno Schulz (1892-1942), and adapts his lush, magical and sometimes erotic drawings to the stage. Using the theatre's signature style of physicality, imagery, puppetry, live instrumental and choral music, Double Edge deeply explores Schulz's powerful prose and life, as well as his banal death at the hands of a jealous Nazi, to create a dreamlike journey through the human experience in the modern world.

the Disappearance marks a new point of departure for Double Edge - a collaboration with a living author, Ilan Stavans, on a work rife with contemporary relevance and power. Conceived and directed by Stacy Klein, the Disappearance follows the story of a famous Jewish actor in Belgium, Maarten Soetendrop, who stages his own kidnapping to awaken his community to a perceived renewal of anti-Semitism. The result of this collaboration is a multi-layered theatrical adaptation where a linear narrative meets a shifting dreamscape. The performance also features a haunting original score, a play-within-a-play performance of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, life-sized puppets and an evocative set fashioned from glass doors and mirrors.