Mystic Paper Beasts Theatre Company
8 Hancox Street, Stonington, Connecticut 06378
http://www.dragonseggstudio.org; marya: 860 444 7247
mybeasts@aol.com; dragonseggstudio@gmail.com
Board of Directors: Mystic Paper Beasts
David Jaffe, president David Dorfman Co-Producer: Dan Potter
Kato McNickle, vice president Ara Fitzgerald Co-Artistic Director: Marya
Marya Ursin, secretary Jessica Cerullo
Daniel Potter, treasurer Shannon Sexton Potter Dragon’s Egg
Exec.Director: Marya Ursin
Greetings! August…. and Fall is coming! 2025
Greetings from the Mystic Paper Beasts and the Dragon’s Egg.
It is happening…Big dramas around the rebuilding of the Dragon’s Egg, but, with the help and advice of others, we are happy with our builders, who are lovely and positive and are doing their best for us, keeping costs within the insurance settlement. As you might imagine, code requirements have changed considerably since 1998, and we have had to make (costly) changes to comply with these. The Egg will likely be completed by October, but I am holding off on a formal re opening until December 7th, in the afternoon, just to give us a cushion for the unexpected!
We have had a number of almost monthly living room play readings: Dead Man’s Cellphone (Ruhl), Cloud 9 (Churchill), the Birthday Party (Pinter), A Child’s Christmas in Wales (Thomas), Blithe Spirit (Noel Coward), Tartuffe (Moliere), Antigone (Sophocles). More to come!
We had an art opening at the Hygienic, a panel discussion with a poetry reading, and a closing. Marya performed with Ara Fitzgerald and Clare Byrne at the Hygienic to accompany a reading of her new book. Beasts have performed out and about in New London, Groton, Stonington, we have taught workshops, and Marya is performing under the auspices of Arts For Learning Massachusetts at various schools and other venues in Mass. “Dragon’s Egg Presents” is at University Settlement in NYC on 9/20 at 2 pm and will be wonderful (see the line up, at the end of the letter).
Upcoming: this list is a work in progress:
9/6 Mermaids Parade in New London
9/13 Art Walk in Stonington
9/20 Dragon’s Egg Presents at University Settlement
10/4 Beasts at the Wimpfheimer Sculpture Park
11/5 Opening at the Hoxie, Westerly, RI, of Fuller Potter paintings
11/16 Tellabration at the Egg!
12/7 re-Opening of the Egg – time tba, but probably 2-4 pm
12/14 Annual MPB Board Meeting
Weekly 8 am zoom yoga classes with Marya – 2-4 x/week are ongoing, ever since covid! Plus in person classes at CC and NTI. And NTI mask workshop in September
Monthly Living Room Playreadings yet to be scheduled.
Marya performances and workshops yet to be scheduled.
Poetry events, and zoom events, tba.
July 2026 – opening at the Hoxie of a show of Dan Potter’s work.
Dragon’s Egg Presents!
NYC: 9/20/2025, at 2:00 pm.at University Settlement, 184 Eldridge, NYC, 10002.
Tickets $20; Contact mybeasts@aol.com for tickets/reservation.
Cheque to MPB at c/o Marya, 8 Hancox, Stonington, Ct. 06378, or https://paypal.me/dragonseggstudio.
Performers: Adams Company Dance, alexx makes dances, Alison Cook Beatty Dance,
Anabella Lenzu/ DanceDrama,The Celestials, EPs Theatre, Garet&Co Contemporary Dance,
The Haus of Glitter Dance Company, Jamie Graham, Leslie Satin, Rogue Wave, Maia and Medea,
TINATA Collective.
LD Kelley-Stage Manager;
Emma Rivera-Lighting/Liaison;
Marya-MC/producer.
In the meantime, we go on. We rely on Memberships and Donations, especially at this particular time, while the Egg is being rebuilt, and look forward to our reopening in 2025.
Levels of membership: “mouse” at $25 a year, to “dragon” at $100 and above. You may pay via PayPal, or by cheque. (See below)
We wish you well, and look forward to hearing from you.
Marya and Dan, and the Board of the Mystic Paper Beasts/Dragon’s Egg.
Yes, we’d like to join the Mystic Paper Beasts (gifts to the MPB are tax deductible).
https://paypal.me/dragonseggstudio
Or by cheque to the Mystic Paper Beasts, 8 Hancox, Stonington, Ct. 06378.
Oh! and we’d like an extra membership as a gift for our friends, who will be thrilled – thus it becomes both support for the artists, and a gift for friends.
____________$25 mouse; ___________$30-50 gazelle; ____________$60-99 lion; ___________more $- dragon!
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Your email address will assure that you receive announcements of Beast activities . Walk in Peace.
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