Archive for October, 2017

Not Your Kukla, Fran, and Ollie

Posted on October 21st, 2017 by Figures of Speech

FST Co-Founders, John and Carol, will demolish your preconceptions about the puppet theater and share their evolution from childhood buddies to international touring artists. Hear their story and experience their unique performance, which melds puppetry with dance, sculpture, poetry, and music in a theatrical form that defies categorization and celebrates the metaphorical power of puppets. […]

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2017 Maine Arts Commission Grant Recipients

Posted on October 18th, 2017 by Figures of Speech

We are thrilled to announce that the Maine Arts Commission has awarded FST two grants for the coming year. (We’re also thrilled to announce that they still have enough funding to give grants!) An Arts and Humanities Grant, issued jointly by the MAC and the Maine Humanities Council, will be used to support a tour of […]

T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets

Posted on October 10th, 2017 by Figures of Speech

ATTENTION POETRY LOVERS! Come see, hear, and feel the entirety of T.S. Eliot’s poetic masterpiece, Four Quartets, nearly a thousand lines of rapturous (and devilishly hard to memorize) poetry, recited live by FST’s Artistic Director John Farrell. Presented by Pontine Theatre in collaboration with Newington Historical Society. Newington Old Town Hall 336 Nimble Hill Road […]

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