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 […]
Stonington Art Walk on September 17
Marya will be roving as a Mystic Paper Beast for the Stonington Art Walk on Sunday! Dan will be sitting at the Merrill House with his critters. Do come – I’d love to see you. Xo m
Marya at the Seaport!
The Mystic Art Festival/walk is next weekend, and, on Saturday, August 12th,there will be performance arts at the Seaport on a small open stage from 4-8! I am on as a Mystic Paper Beast at 4:55 for a brief storytelling (15 min)… Do come!Mystic Seaport75 Greenmanville AveMystic, CT 06355
Beasts in Bridgeport!
Marya will be performing the solo show of Sky Tailsat 2 pm, on July 15th,at the lovely Black Rock Library on Fairfield Avenue in Bridgeport, Ct. Black Rock Library2705 Fairfield Ave.Bridgeport, CT 06605 Do come join me!It will be great funxo marya
Upcoming Summer Events at the Egg
We have lots of artists in Residence during the summer, and we also have various Public Events coming up! Please join us! With glee and delight, we offer: Hold the dates – at the Dragon’s Egg: July 12 at 4 pm – Dan Potter and Alice Perowill have a conversation in poetry and she will […]
Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Egg on August 5th
Soooo the theme for this summer’s Narrative Event will be A Midsummer Night’s Dream! by Shakespeare, with all its confusions and fantasies.dance, theatre, puppets, song, hooping, mask, spoof, the palette is wide open. The date will be August 5th at 4 pm. This will be an indoor event, with activities outside as well. Do […]
Year end Membership Letter for the Beasts and Egg
On a balmy (!) November day, we look back at the year for the Mystic Paper Beasts, and at the Dragon’s Egg. Marya applied for four grants and we were very fortunate to receive: We received two General Operating Support Grant \for Theaters and Performing Groups, from Ct. Humanities and from the Dept of […]
Tellabration! on November 20th at 4 at the Egg
Tellabration is in One Week!! on Sunday, November 20th, at 4 pm, at the Egg.Hold the Date!! The Dragon’s Egg Presents Tellabration! A Celebration of the Oral Tradition Tellabration is a mammoth storytelling event – and that’s no Tall Tale! It’s a storytelling phenomenon, made up of dozens of storytelling happenings all over the […]
Marya will perform at MOAF
Marya will be performing for the Mystic Outdoor Arts Festival on August 12th! The performance portion of the festival will be on August 12 and 13 at Mystic Seaport, as it was last year (for the first time!). The renowned Mystic Arts Festival will be from the 12-14 on the streets of Mystic. I shall […]
Dan’s Opening was Great
Dan’s opening last night, at the Hoxie Gallery in Westerly Library, was wonderful – well attended, with many friends, much interest in the work. It was a grace filled time, full of conversation and study/ And yes, Dan is feeling much better – needs to rest and to keep drinking water (please!), but […]
Family Holiday Frolicing!
We had a lovely and convivial time at the Egg with a small group of children and parents on the 23rd of December. We ran, played, went high on the swing, painted masks, made music, played games, did some gymnastics, chatted. Everyone went home with little bags of cookies or cakes. It was spacious, masked, […]
Tellabration!! This is the Programme
Tellabration!!! Nov. 14, 2021, Sunday, at 4 pm, in person, at the Dragon’s Egg. Suitable for all ages! (You will remember that last year, we were on zoom!) The Egg is participating, as it has for many years, in the statewide event of Tellabration, which is organized by the Ct. Storytelling Center, which now has […]
Tellabration at the Egg on Sunday, November 14th at 4
Tellabration!!! Nov. 14, Sunday, at 4 pm, in person, at the Egg. The Mystic Paper Beasts and the Dragon’s Egg have, for years, decades? participated in the annual, state wide, November celebration of story telling. The Ct Storytelling Center is providing us with an experienced teller, Steve Long, and I then expand it to include […]
Headless and Heedless – come!
Sunday, October 31, at noon, via zoom. Link is below. The Heedless Horseman, by Dan Potter, is one of the offerings tomorrow! See the zoom code below. xo m A teacher of etiquette up from Connecticut came to a party as Ichabod Crane In a castle of vassals Katrina Van Tassels his hostess bewitched him […]
Friday the 13th at the Mystic Arts Festival – Performances
Come see local performance artists this weekend, at the Seaport, as a part of the annual Mystic arts festival! The venue for the performances is the Seaport – see below. Marya will be telling a short tale from the Mystic Paper Beasts play, “SkyTales”, on Friday eve. David Dorfman will be performing on Friday, too! […]
Windy Willows and 75 alive!
Hold the Date! August 15th at noon In front of the Dragon’s Egg at 401 Shewville, Ledyard The Windy Willows! And a celebration of 75 for Dan! This year’s Narrative Event will take a look at The Wind in the Willows, with the performers all placed out of doors, and you, our friends and guests, […]
Programme for Tellabration
The Programme Tellabration is an annual celebration of Storytelling throughout the state during the month of November organized by the Connecticut Storytelling Center (csc@conncoll.edu). The Dragon’s Egg (www.dragonseggstudio.org) has happily been a part of this event for many years. Marya Ursin, executive director of the Dragon’s Egg, is the producer today, and will be introducing […]
Tellabration is Sunday, November 15, at 4 pm, via zoom
Tellabration is Sunday!!! I hope you can join us! Marya Ursin is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Topic: Tellabration! Time: Nov 15, 2020 04:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) You may donate via PayPal: paypal.me/dragonseggstudio. https://paypal.me/dragonseggstudio?locale.x=en_US Or by cheque to the Mystic Paper Beasts. 8 Hancox Street, Stonington, Connecticut 06378 Join Zoom […]
Tellabration!
Programme Dragon’s Egg Presents: Tellabration 2020 – Zooming Along! November 15th, at 4 pm. Scroll down for the zoom link. Tellabration is an annual celebration of Storytelling throughout the state during the month of November organized by the Connecticut Storytelling Center (csc@conncoll.edu). The Dragon’s Egg (www.dragonseggstudio.org) has happily been a part of this event for […]
Join the Dragon’s Egg/MPB as a Member!!
Mystic Paper Beasts Theatre Company 8 Hancox Street, Stonington, Connecticut 06378 860 535 3346; www.dragonseggstudio.org mybeasts@aol.com; dragonseggstudio@gmail.com Board of Directors: Mystic Paper Beasts David Jaffe, president David Dorfman Producer: Dan Potter Kato McNickle, vice president Ara Fitzgerald Artistic Director: Marya Marya Ursin, secretary Jeremy Pickard Daniel Potter, treasurer Shannon Sexton Potter Dragon’s Egg Jessica Cerullo […]
Beasts Rove Again!
The Beasts will be roving with antic glee at the Torrington Street Fair! Look for us on Thursday, August 8th, between 5:30 and 7:30 pm.
r and j project: Juliet and her Romeo
Amazing! – it was indeed! Artists gathered to offer their riffs and meditations on the story of Juliet, and her Romeo, with dance, theatre, music, mask, sonnet. Comments include: (I was blown away by the ) “wit, fantasy, music, dance, acting, the world of the play. Like a prism. It was transporting.” Rachel Jett, […]
