IMAGINARY is the new show that challenges you to pick back up the toys from the sandbox you played with as a kid and become the person you were always meant to be. Here's the question: what did you give up to become the person you are today?
When the world of imaginary friends starts to collapse based on actions that we are doing in our world, one imaginary friend is sent back, becoming visible to everyone in order to get help to save his dying world.
Meet Bixby. To date, he has been the imaginary friend to 1,613 people. Some fantastic, some historical and possibly even you. When a friend comes to you as a child, their job is to support you and show you that you're capable of being anything your heart can dream of. When they are done teaching, they are called home and reimagined for the next child. Their hope is that you learn those lessons and make the world a more fantastical place.
People are forgetting what they created when they were young and worse yet, they are challenging their imaginations as childish and unnecessary. These challenges are upending what our world should be and causing what could be the complete demise of imagination.
With the use of state-of-the-art digital mapping and projection, you will be taken to a new world that completely surrounds you, floor to ceiling, front to back. Everything you see will be like nothing you have ever seen.
KRIS ANDERSSON(Actor/Playwright) He is best known for Dixie's Tupperware Party which debuted at the 2004 New York International Fringe Festival. Following that, the show moved Off-Broadway to the acclaimed theater, Ars Nova. He received the 2007/08 Drama Desk Award Nomination for Outstanding Solo Performance and began an international tour in 2008. The show has now become one of the longest-running Off-Broadway tours in American theater history. Dixie's follow up show, Never Wear A Tube Top While Riding A Mechanical Bull and 16 Other Things I Learned While I Was Drinking Last Thursday, co-produced by the Denver Center for Performing Arts has toured in tandem with Tupperware since 2014. During the pandemic, he created the show, "Dixie's Happy Hour" which streamed for four months through 26 arts centers serving as a fundraiser to help during the shutdown.
Cherry Bombs and Bottle Rockets, is his 4th and final Dixie show now making its way around the US. He's also won acclaim with shows at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Previous to his stagework, Andersson could be seen in the films Titanic and Scream 2, on TV in NewsRadio and American Dreams and on the stage in the LA 20th anniversary production of Bent.He can be found on instagram @KrisAndersson_official