Weaving the world of a play together.
All the threads of a good story
are right where we are.
Imaginative.
We illuminate epics in a simple way through the magic of resourceful storytelling— welcoming community members as crucial collaborators + putting place at the center of their story.
Innovative.
We are committed to making theatre from scratch across the local landscape, engaging its people + alternative spaces to nurture creative partnerships within the community.
Inclusive.
We continue to celebrate and elevate the heritage of rural places—teaming up with denizens to devise an original work through collective creation.
“The writing and choreography were just gorgeous. And then there was the work with community members– the ownership you encouraged and supported was as good, as deep as any such work I have seen.”
— Judith Jerome
“I would do it all over again– a hundred times. It was one of my most memorable summers.”
— Faith, Community Ensemble
What Folks Are Saying
“Let me just say, that story did not disappear in this heart overnight, nor from many others as I hear them speaking of it openly, in public, loud enough for others to hear. Bravo indeed. Stellar indeeder.”
— Fisherman, Stonington
“As it unfolded, I felt myself drawn in to the spirit of the story… friends who attended all remarked at this feeling of being swept away by the current.”
— Teacher, Blue Hill
“The audience seemed to expand in imagination as it increased in number each night, until the final performance turned our feelings for the voyage into a new reverence for oral history and the retelling of human (and animal) stories.”
— Misty Mountain Singer, Blue Hill
“Threadbare allowed the creative process to flow from the local community, rather than stifle that flow based on the theory that art comes from away, not from here.”
— Carpenter, Brooklin
“When I woke up this morning I felt like I still wanted to be in the world of Fionn and the Royal Tar. I want it to go on forever— giving a different world to people. I had friends and strangers hug me and thank me for taking them away from this world and letting them be children in a world of dream and fantasy. Thank you for letting us be part of another world.”
— Debbie Alexander, Misty Mountain Singer