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2026: Season 3
AMERICAN MYTHS
RHINOCOSAURUS REX: April 16-20​
TANGLEROOT: May 28-June 6
AMERICAN MYTHOLOGY, ACCORDING TO STAUNTON: June 25-July 4
THE CHIMERICAL BALLAD OF BESSY BELL AND MARY GRAY: August 20-29
THE UNJUSTLY CENSORED REVENGE OF TALLIE ROBICHAUX, GENTLEWOMAN WITCH: October 22-31
THE YULE CAT, December 10-19
2026 Season Auditions
February 16 2026,
5:30 - 9:00pm
Staunton Augusta Art Center
20 S. New Street, Staunton
We are looking for adventurous physical performers, curious about puppetry to join our core ensemble members in creation of these experiments.
For each production, we pay our performers a $300 stipend. Rehearsals are typically roughly five weeks leading up to opening. We can work around schedules within reason.
Please prepare up to three minutes of the following (or just wing it):
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One Minute Puppet Performance (silent or voiced)
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Bring your own or we’ll have a couple on hand.
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One Minute Monologue
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One Minute Masked Performance (silent or voiced)
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One Minute of song
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One Minute of Something Else that will blow our minds.
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A satirical parody, an homage, a provocative mash-up of Ionesco's absurdist masterpiece, Rhinoceros, and this very old play, Oedipus Rex. ​
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The country is plagued with pestilence, and folks are turning into angry, horned dinosaurs. Dang it!
All Boo wants to do is look at her phone and drink wine, But her best friend and everybody else keeps biting her head off about everything.
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April 16-25, Thursday through Saturday, 7pm.
Somewhere in Staunton. We'll let you know.
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Donate to the Off Center
In just three years, The Off Center has become a vibrant member of Staunton's cultural landscape. We seek to bring Staunton thought-provoking, evocative experimental puppetry and visually playful performance.​
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We're a growing company, quickly outgrowing our terra cotta planter. Help us expand in a sustainable way. Donations help keep our ticket prices affordable for all of the community.
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We are an ensemble-based company. Our core members are accomplished artists from various disciplines who have dedicated their lives to their craft. Help us continue to offer them compensation for their work. Become our patron, and make our work possible.
The Off Center's Mission
The Off Center is a Staunton, Virginia based organization that brings people of every background together to experience curious stories and experiences. We believe in the intrinsic value of gathering and exploring thoughts that we’ve never thought. We encourage novelty and disruption. Discovery is a basic human need. We seek to fill it.
The work that we create and support is off center, inviting participants to see something askew, possibly something previously unconsidered, maybe something uncommon or even disquieting. An aslant view, we believe, brings us all together as community, welcoming our quirky and genuine selves.