Posts Tagged ‘masks’

Quixote Project!

Come find us at the Dragon’s Egg this Saturday  November 7 at 4 p.m. celebrating Cervante’s great work with dance and costumes playlets and skits for all ages   Please join us for the 12th annual Narrative Project at the Dragon’s Egg! Each year, I send out a prompt to actors and dancers, puppeteers and […]


Quixotic Dreams!!

The Quixotic Project will be at the Dragon’s Egg on November 7th (Saturday) at 4 pm = a one time only event, suitable for all ages.  This is a series of riffs and reflections on Don Quixote, and will include local and distant dancers, actors, monologuists, puppeteers, hoopers.   Please join us!  Donations encouraged.See Don Q […]


Marya Solo at the Day School

Marya will be performing excerpts from her solo version of Skytails tomorrow, September 17, at the Fay School, in Massachusetts, as a part of the Young Audiences Massachusetts arts and performance festival!  yay…


More Masks!

NTI/NMTI Fall 2015 have arrived and are bounding with energy!  and the world now has 34 new masks!   We Beasts (Marya, Dan, Doug) taught a mask workshop on Monday and Tuesday, and whoosh, here you are! They built their masks, wrote their monologues, collaborated with a performance partner, and performed movement pieces to their […]


Mask Making at NTI coming up!

Look for a wonderful birthing of new masks into the world, a product of the wild imaginations of students yet to arrive, yet to dream of their masks!   Yay!  xox


Outside the Box Festival!

The Mystic Paper Beasts perform for the fabulous Outside the Box Festival on the Boston Green, July 15, at 2 pm!!   


Hygienic Beasts!

Hygienic Gala!   July 3rd! We Beasties will be roving with glee to entertain you (and ourselves) and to celebrate the Hygienic, artists, and life!   We shall be there sometime between 6:30 and 8:30 in the evening.. Then we’ll be picnicing on the Lighthouse Lawn in Stonington on July 4th, at 4 pm.  Come […]


A Journey through the Stars

March’s hairy hare hops hauntingly close – Rabbit!  It is here! And March 8th, Sunday, at 12:00, is the time for the A Journey through the Stars and Planets, an astrological view, performed by Dragon’s Egg artists and friends, and held at the Hygienic Galleries on Bank Street in New London. This will be a […]


Winter births Masks at the O’Neill

NTI/NMTI Spring (?! hah!) 2015 make masks, write tales, and move through new adventures!  Yay – it was magical fun!  xo m


NTI/NMTI Begins!

NTI and the new NMTI began earlier this month, yay!   Marya and Dan taught a mask workshop, with Doug Moffat helping, and Marya is on the regular faculty throughout the semester (for thirty years – yipes!).   Come to their final production in December –12 and 13.  


Beasts in Marlborough!

The Beasts will be performing on Union Square in Marlborough, Mass, on 8/9 at 1 pm. Yay! ‘Twill be fun!   Come join us!   


Peter Pan at the Egg: the Pan Project!

Pan!   The Peter Pan Project!!    is coming up – so hold the date   on June 21st, at 4 pm  at the Dragon’s Egg, 401 Shewville Road, Ledyard for information: contact me (marya) at mybeasts@aol.com    This is a one time only adventure!   Peter Pan is our beginning point, with performers offering riffs on the […]


Beasts at Montessori!

The Mystic Paper Beasts will be performing at a Montessori School pavilion in Winchester, Mass., tomorrow, May 9th, and then teaching four workshops! Yay! Lots of prowling cats and sounds and dreams will be afloat in the world of small and large!And the Dragon’s Egg will be hosting Janet Aisawa in residency this weekend.May is […]


SkyTails! Beasts are in the Air, and in Groton!

The Beasts will be performing tomorrow, Saturday, June 22, as a part of the Groton Public Library Solstice Midsummer Festival!   There will be tons of activities from 10 am to mid afternoon, for all ages. We shall be roving out and about from 11-12, and then The Mystic Paper Beasts will present SkyTails, a series […]


r and j project: Juliet, and her Romeo

Come come!   It will be merry and sad, unexpected and exciting, wild and emphatic, amazing and thrilling. And it is This Weekend!  a one time only event.  the r and j  Project: Juliet, and her Romeo 4 pm, June 15, 2013, the Tenth Narrative Event at the Dragon’s Egg, 401 Shewville Rd, Ledyard assembled yearly […]