JUXTAPOSE | A Theatrical Shadow Box

Producing Company

Happenstance Theater

Happenstance Theater is a professional company founded in 2006 by Sabrina Mandell and Mark Jaster. The Washington City Paper says, "Happenstance Theater’s ensemble comedy is a gut-busting kind of funny." The Washington Post describes our work as "visually striking and whimsical without being precious," and calls Happenstance Theater "DC’s leading peddler of whimsy." We are committed to devising, producing and touring original, performer-created visual, poetic theatre. Our ensemble is made up of multi-talented performers who craft all aspects of our work from concept to realization. We harvest imagery from the past and re-contextualize it in works that address universal themes of ephemera and mortality. With the simplest means - humor, whimsy, music, silence, text, physical comedy, object manipulation, vulnerability and generosity - we seek to elevate the moment when the performers and audience meet, to lift the encounter beyond the daily and pedestrian into the realms of dreams, poetry, and art. Meaning is often found by happenstance.

Read more at: www.happenstancetheater.com