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 […]
The Plague Project Programme
Programme for the Plague Project – a Zoom experience! August 15, 2020 A series of explorations and reflections upon Camus’ book, The Plague —with wide latitude for choice of inspiration! The actors, dancers, puppeteers, poets, and musicians give of their time and their generous talent freely. If you are able to give a donation to […]
Narrative Project: the Plague
The Plague Project August 15, at 4 pm, via live zoom An Assemblage performance project, open to all; donations are welcome. Performers will include Clare Byrne, Ara Fitzgerald, Cecelia Foxanesi, Melanie Greenhouse, Martha Moore, Claire Porter, Jason Rabin, Leslie Satin, Jessie Winograd and dancers. Perhaps more…. For the past 17 years, the Dragon’s Egg has […]
Narrative Project 2020: the Plague
Save the Date!! August 15 at 4 pm. Zoom! toddler and cat The annual Narrative Project at the Egg this summer will be a zoom event, on August 15th, at 4 pm. Lissa at the Young People’s Hygienic True, it will not have the wonderful environment and playful interactions we have at the […]
Ripostes IV
Wednesday, July 10th, at 4 pm, at the Dragon’s Egg, 401 Shewville Road, Ledyard. Suitable for all ages; by donation. A conversation in poetry between Alice Pero and Dan Potter, with flute music by Alice Alice: Dan and Alice have been carrying on a poetry dialogue, each writing a poem that […]
Hygienic Egg!
The Hygienic Egg is Sunday, March 10th, at 12:30, at the Hygienic Galleries. Artists associated with the Dragon’s Egg will come together to create a promenade performance event at the amazing Hygienic Galleries on Bank Street, in New London. The prompt is Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats, by TS Elliot, so, generally speaking, the […]
Hygienic Egg
The Hygienic Egg is Sunday, March 10th, at 12:30, at the Hygienic Galleries. Artists associated with the Dragon’s Egg will come together to create a promenade performance event at the amazing Hygienic Galleries on Bank Street, in New London. The prompt is Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats, by TS Elliot, so, generally speaking, the […]
Austin Alexis, poet, in Residence in August
This is what Austin says about his upcoming residency: At Dragon’s Egg, I [Austin Alexis] plan to work on writing a full-length play. I already have thirty-four pages of a first draft, and plan to make substantial progress on the script while I’m in residence. The play is non-realistic in its presentation, but is […]
Jane Jane Yay Jane!
Yay! This year’s (15th! annual) Narrative Project, conceived and assembled by Marya Ursin, was a great success! It explored the story and themes of the novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, with reflections in dance, theatre, monologue poetry music and with Beastie Bits tossed in to entice a story line through our minds. […]
The Hygienic Egg Breathed, and well.
It was a wonderful event today at the Hygienic Art Gallery. My heart was wide, and my eyes full of tears and laughter, by turn, in the presence of the performers’ many ways of entering this, the Poetry of Death. I thank them for their poetry, honesty, generosity, their ways of being, here, and now, in […]
Hygienic Egg!
Come join us this Sunday for the Hygienic Egg, a performance that moves through all the galleries of the Hygienic Arts in New London, Ct. The performers come from far and near, and all are associated with the Dragon’s Egg. Here is our programme! I hope to see you there! March 18 at 12:30. xox […]
The Hygienic Egg!
Sunday, March 18, at the Hygienic Galleries in New London – yay!! Our annual promenade performance, by a number of artists who have been in residence at the Dragon’s Egg, – at the Hygienic Galleries in New London – is coming up!There will be music, dance, puppetry, theatre, hooping, poetry, with the audience moving through […]
Animal Farm is Coming
Come come to Animal Farm! This Saturday, June 24, at 4 pm – a one time only event! Donations welcome All ages. At the Dragon’s Egg. Park in the far field, and come along the designated path to meet Major and Squealer and Snowball and Napoleon and Boxer and Mollie and Benjamin and Muriel and […]
EarthDay was Lovely
Earth Day is Every Day was a wonderful, sweet, event of community gathering, music playing, poetry being shared. There were vendors and people swinging, bacci on offer, lots of conversation and sitting on the deck. There was a nature walk led by Laurie. There was poetry and hooping! And there were Radishes – […]
Earth Day! Sunday, May 21, 1-4 pm
This Sunday!! Come to the Dragon’s Egg celebration of the Earth on May 21, from 1 – 4. There will be vendors and games and psychics and music and dancing and hooping and a nature walk and – you! Community in celebration! I look forward to seeing you here. xo
That Was the Hygienic Egg
The Hygienic Egg was a remarkable look at the poetry of Adrienne Rich on the part of dancers, hoopers, poets, monologuists, singers! The event moved from the entrance area, where, after Marya greeted everyone, She read a portion of the forward to the collected poems of Adrienne Rich- up to 1974, a sort of […]
Hygienic Egg
Come to the Hygienic Egg!! on March 12th, at 12:30 pm, at the Hygienic Galleries in New London. A group of performers associated with the Dragon’s Egg will be responding to the work of the poet, Adrienne Rich, in this promenade performance work. Among those artists participating will be Cristin Cawley […]
Hygienic Egg 2017
March 12th, 12:30 pm, at the Hygienic Galleries in New London, Ct. The Hygienic Egg, an assemblage project which takes place at the Hygienic Galleries in New London, under the auspices of, and with performers from, the Dragon’s Egg circle of performers and friends, will take place on March 12th. Performance at 12:30. The performance […]
Egg Holiday Bazaar is December 11th
Holiday Bazaar at the Dragon’s Egg Sunday, December 11th, 2016, from 1 – 4 pm! 401 Shewville Road, Ledyard (directions on the website: www.dragonseggstudio.org) There will be crafts, jewelry, soaps, ceramics, books, clothing, fabric, singers, tarot reader, chair massage, poets, dancers – and, hopefully – You!! Please do join us. If you […]
Poetry and Music in Dialogue at the Egg!
On July 19th, at 5 pm, the Egg will host a conversation between two poets, Alice Pero (also on flute), and Dan Potter, and harpsichordists, America Dupre la Tour and Elena Zamolodchikova . Come for this sometimes boisterous, sometimes witty, sometimes reflective engagement of ways of speaking and observing. The musicians are: […]
Music and Poetry at the Egg
On July 19th, at 5 pm, the Egg will host a conversation between two poets, Alice Pero (also on flute), and Dan Potter, and harpsichordists, America Dupre la Tour and Elena Zamolodchikova . Come for this sometimes boisterous, sometimes witty, sometimes reflective engagement of ways of speaking and observing. Alice Pero is a […]
Earth Day! May Day!
Earth Day – May Day! will be celebrating the earth on May 1st from 2-5 pm at the Egg, with vendors, poets, dancers, musicians, games (like boules!), drumming, hoopers, nature walk, plus it will be a Welcome Home to Travellin’ Dan! Please join us!
Earth Day! May Day!
Earth Day! May Day! with all that implies, will be at the Egg on May 1st, Sunday, from 2 – 5 pm. There will be vendors, poets, dances, nature walks, plus we shall welcome Dan Potter home from his winter time away in Hanoi, back to the chilly spring of Connecticut!! full of […]
