Fall of Freedom! On zoom
Hi! It is coming – and we are going to put on our Fall of Freedom/poetry of protest –this Saturday, November 22nd, at 4:30 pm.,On Zoom! This is a part of the Fall for Freedom project. We shall have poetry, dance, hooping, song..Join us!Thank you!And please share this below. xo marya Artists participating include: Serena Ara Dian Alison Cook […]
Tellabration at – gasp – the Egg!!
Tellabration 2025 at the Dragon’s Egg went great, and was well attended – it was our first return to the Dragon’s Egg since the fire of March, 2024. What a great way to re invite energy into the space (which is not yet complete). I thank the tellers all, for their unique ways of telling […]
Living Room Playreading Series
Our next informal Living Room Playreading, sponsored by the Mystic Paper Beasts, will be on Sunday afternoon, November 23, from 2-5 pm, at 8 Hancox, in Stonington. We shall be reading She Stoops to Conquer, by Oliver Goldsmith.Bring a copy of the play!There is a free version on the Project Gutenberg site online, and Dover has inexpensive copies. I […]
Fall for Freedom/Poetry of Protest – on zoom
I am hosting a poetry reading on Zoom of poetry, prose, painting, dance, theatre of protest on Nov. 22 at 4:30 pm. This is a part of the Fall of Freedom project. Artists participating include: Serena AraDianAlison cook BeattyJane johnsonClaire porterBarbara mahler Jeanne ruskinPhyllis RSVP if you would like to be.a reader. If an audience, […]
Dragon’s Egg Presented and Yay
Dragon’s Egg Presents Presented!! At University Settlement in NYC yesterday – Saturday, Sept. 20th! The program was varied and moved from quiet to dramatic to comedic, reflecting, as this concert does, the wide variety of work that is dreamt and developed at the Dragon’s Egg. It was a fine afternoon for all, […]
Bios for Dragon’s Egg Presents, 9/20/2025
Here are the bios for Dragon’s Egg Presents at University Settlement at 2 pm on Saturday, September 20th, 2025. They are arranged in the order of the performers. Enjoy! Xo marya The Celestials Clare Byrne is a dance educator, choreographer, writer, and musician. Her work in song and dance has been performed across […]
Dragon’s Egg Presents at University Settlement!
Dragon’s Egg Presents!at 2 pm on September 20, 2025at University Settlement, Speyer Hall, 184 Eldridge Street, NYC, NY 10002All of the performers have been artists in residence at the Dragon’s Egg in the past years. We thank you for being here, for completing the circle of creative endeavor. May we all walk in peace […]
Livingroom Playreading Series Continues
Continuing our Living Room informal playreading series – an almost monthly reading chez nous at 8 Hancox Street in Stonington, Ct. The Way of the World, by Congrevewill be on Sunday, October 12th, from 2-5. I serve tea, minimal snacks – we are here to read the play!! Do please join us – it is […]
Dragon’s Egg at University Settlement!
Mystic Paper Beasts/Dragon’s Egg8 Hancox Street, Stonington, Ct. 06378www.dragonseggstudio.org: visit for more events!! The Dragon’s Egg is under construction! And will hopefully re-open this winter. Beasts continue to romp! NYC: 9/20/2025, at 2:00 pm: Dragon’s Egg Presents!at University Settlement, 184 Eldridge, NYC, 10002.Tickets $20; Contact mybeasts@aol.com for tickets/reservation.Cheque, or https://paypal.me/dragonseggstudio. Performers: Adams Company Dance, alexx makes […]
Dragon’s Egg Presents 2025
The Dragon’s Egg is under construction! And will hopefully re-open this winter. Beasts continue to romp! NYC: 9/20/2025, at 2:00 pm: Dragon’s Egg Presents!at University Settlement, 184 Eldridge, NYC, 10002.Tickets $20; Contact mybeasts@aol.com for tickets/reservation.Cheque, or https://paypal.me/dragonseggstudio. Performers: Adams Company Dance, alexx makes dances, Alison Cook Beatty Dance, Anabella Lenzu/ DanceDrama, Ara Fitzgerald, The Celestials, EPs Theatre, Garet&Co Contemporary […]
Beasts are about
The Beasts have been popping up out and about. Upcoming on Saturday, August 9th, at 2 pm, is a brief vignette by Marya, at MOAF – the performance portion of the Mystic art fair. It is a great event, with alot of variety of very fine performers throughout the day (rain or shine) in […]
Living Room Playreading Series
Ahhh summer! The heat, the storms, the lush green growing garden, the sea. We continue with our (nearly) monthly Living Room Playreading, in which we gather together, a group of unpracticed readers, to read a play together. We have so far read Dead Man’s Cellphone, Cloud 9, A Child’s Christmas in Wales, The […]
Ara at the Hygienic! Plays at home! Christie at LaGrua
Hi!This Friday, Ara Fitzgerald, dancer, choreographer, writer, inventor, will be doing a reading of her book this friday,May 9th, at 6 pm, at the Hygienic!! Please join us! Clare Byrne and I (Marya) shall be accompanying her as readers. It will be fun – and I would love to see you. details are below. Also, […]
Stonington has announced: Christie Williams
Christie Williams will be the First (!!) Poet Laureate of Stonington! He has graced many an event as an actor, as a viewer, as a poet, as a generous participant, at the Egg, and at Egg events, as well as out and about more widely. He will be our poet laureate for two […]
Stonington Poet Laureate is established!
Poet laureate Press Releasethe TOWN OF STONINGTON ESTABLISHES POSITION OF POET LAUREATE Under the direction of the Stonington Cultural District Commission (SCDC), theTown has officially established the position of ‘Poet Laureate’. Aligning with National Poetry Month, an application and selection process willbe publicly rolled out for this two-year post. Cultural District Commission Chair Paul Geise.expressed […]
Hygienic Egg Programme
Dragon’s Egg PresentsThe Hygienic EggOn March 9th, 2025, at the Hygienic Galleries of New LondonA nearly annual collaboration with the HygienicWe provide the performers, they provide the amazing venues, as we promenade through the Galleries, taking in the art, and creating our own. This yea’s work is in response to the prompt of Pygmalion. […]
The Hygienic Egg!
The Hygienic Egg!March 9th, 2025, at 12:30 pmThe Mystic Paper Beasts/Dragon’s Egg is back, with the “Hygienic Egg”, a promenade performance through the Galleries of the Hygienic at 78 Bank Street, in New London, Ct. You may remember: this is an event in which it is the Audience that moves. In each of the […]
No Egg yet, but Active
Greetings, on this snowy February snow moon day, Full Moon in Leo! Beauty is around us, and within us. Beauty abounds – we must remember that, and bring kindness and peace and honor into the world. Marya did a Beastie show in Abington, Mass, to an enthusiastic K-5 audience. They were a delight, engaged, full […]
Which comes first, the dragon or the egg?
Greetings and wishes for well being and peace, in this new year! The Dragon’s Egg continues to be (slowly) under reconstruction. I think of dances in which the stillness is key to the rhythm, and can only assume this is part of the song of the Dragon’s Egg, this pause. And then there will […]
Tellabration! Saturday, November 9, at 3 pm
Tellabration! Yay!!! Saturday, 11/9 at 3 pm8 Hancox Street, Stonington To honor storytelling, the Ct. Storytelling Center hosts storytelling events throughout the state during the month of November.The Dragon’s Egg has consistently been a part of this event.This year, we shall have a Living Room Tellabration!!! With a number of tellers, onSaturday, 11/9, at […]
Tellabration!!
Tellabration! 11/9 at 3 pm To honor storytelling, the Ct. Storytelling Center hosts storytelling events throughout the state during the month of November. The Dragon’s Egg has consistently been a part of this event. This year, we shall have a Living Room Tellabration!!! With a number of tellers, on Saturday, 11/9, at 3 pmAt our […]
Upcoming Living Room Events!
Next Sunday, on October 20th, we shall have tea and read, together, The Birthday Party, by Harold Pinter, in our Living Room at 8 Hancox Street in Stonington. You may read or listen. I look forward to seeing you! Do please RSVP. Then, on November 9th, Saturday, at 3 pm, we shall have our […]
Tellabration is coming!
As usual, we plan to host Tellabration 2024, but we have no Dragon’s Egg this year. I am thinking of alternative ways to honour and celebrate storytelling during November: These would be in our Living Room in Stonington, so it would be informal, and would be a bit more like a small gathering/party for friends.I would […]
