Posted on October 21st, 2017 by Figures of Speech
FST Co-Founders, John and Carol, will demolish your preconceptions about the puppet theater and share their evolution from childhood buddies to international touring artists. Hear their story and experience their unique performance, which melds puppetry with dance, sculpture, poetry, and music in a theatrical form that defies categorization and celebrates the metaphorical power of puppets. […]
Posted on October 18th, 2017 by Figures of Speech
We are thrilled to announce that the Maine Arts Commission has awarded FST two grants for the coming year. (We’re also thrilled to announce that they still have enough funding to give grants!) An Arts and Humanities Grant, issued jointly by the MAC and the Maine Humanities Council, will be used to support a tour of […]
Posted on October 10th, 2017 by Figures of Speech
ATTENTION POETRY LOVERS! Come see, hear, and feel the entirety of T.S. Eliot’s poetic masterpiece, Four Quartets, nearly a thousand lines of rapturous (and devilishly hard to memorize) poetry, recited live by FST’s Artistic Director John Farrell. Presented by Pontine Theatre in collaboration with Newington Historical Society. Newington Old Town Hall 336 Nimble Hill Road […]
Posted on July 24th, 2017 by Figures of Speech
NIGHTINGALE Wednesday, July 26 at 7:00pm Stonington, Maine We’re thrilled to bring our performance of Nightingale to Stonington as part of Opera House Arts’ annual Live! for $5 series. Live for $5 consists of 6 hour-long, live performances held on Wednesdays throughout the summer designed so everyone, regardless of age, can enjoy live theatre. Nightingale is […]
Posted on February 2nd, 2017 by Figures of Speech
The Art of Memory: Stories from Maine’s Outer Islands Thursday, March 16 @ 4:30pm Portland Public Library, Portland, Maine Tickets & screening info: www.portlandyouthfilmfestival.com Film info: www.figures.org/memory
Posted on November 18th, 2016 by Figures of Speech
Videographer Derek Kimball just cut a trailer of the little match girl passion drawing on rehearsal footage from our January premiere at Bates College. Contact us today to inquire about this touring production!
Posted on August 22nd, 2016 by Figures of Speech
The Art of Memory: Stories from Maine’s Outer Islands Friday, September 23 at 7:00pm Mayo Street Arts in Portland, Maine The third and final mainland screening of The Art of Memory will be held at Mayo Street Arts, which has emerged as Southern Maine’s new home for puppetry.
Posted on August 1st, 2016 by Figures of Speech
The Art of Memory: Stories from Maine’s Outer Islands Thursday, September 8 at 8:00pm Stonington Opera House in Stonington, Maine The second mainland screening of The Art of Memory will be held in Stonington for those of you on the midcoast. We hope to see you there!
Posted on July 11th, 2016 by Figures of Speech
Figures of Speech Theatre savored a moment of national attention this summer, when HUMANITIES, the quarterly magazine of the National Endowment of theHumanities, featured our production of the little match girl passion in a story celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Pulitzer Prize. Figures of Speech received a Pulitzer Prize Centennial Campfires Initiative grant, administered by […]
Posted on May 9th, 2016 by Figures of Speech
The Art of Memory: Stories from Maine’s Outer Islands Friday, June 10 at 7:00pm The Criterion in Bar Harbor, Maine Over the past year-and-a-half, FST artists have partnered with the Island Institute to work with students from the one-room schoolhouse islands off the coast of Maine: Cliff, Isle au Haut, Islesford, Frenchboro, Matinicus, and Monhegan. In […]