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A SECOND YEAR IN FREEPORT It all started last year when FST Teaching Associate Ian Bannon got back from an intensive seminar at the North American Cultural Laboratory, an ensemble theater program in the Catskills. Ian's eagerness to create work through an ensemble theater process fit in well with FST's desire to do some seriously fun work in its home community of Freeport. Thanks to a 2007 grant from the Maine Arts Commission's Arts in Education pilot program, the Freeport Teen Ensemble Project was born.
GILGAMESH PREMIERS AT HEARTWOOD THEATER For Griff Braley, Artistic Director of Heartwood Theater (Newcastle, Maine), it wasn't enough to simply adapt the 4,500-year-old Babylonian epic of Gilgamesh to the stage. Griff became fascinated with George Smith, an unschooled British bank note engraver who, on his lunch hours, first deciphered the cuneiform stone shards he found at the British Museum -- and a play that would encompass both stories began to form in Griff's mind.
NEW SHOW ADDS AUTHENTIC CULTURAL CONTEXT TO TEACHING PROGRAMS Our Artist-in-Residence programs just got even better! Now each of our week-long residencies will start off with a school show featuring an exquisite set of authentic Javanese shadow puppets!
FIGURES OF SPEECH AND PORTLAND STAGE COLLABORATE ON IBSEN'S PEER GYNT The artistic personnel at Portland Stage Company and Figures of Speech Theatre have embarked on a really wild adventure together. Peer Gynt is a play that's rarely staged due to its unwieldy cast of characters and challenging changes of locale: from pastoral Norwegian hillsides, to the subterranean Hall of the Mountain Trolls, to a shipwreck, to an Egyptian lunatic asylum--and more--and back again! What can make the impossible possible? The art of the puppet, of course!
