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Location
Portland, ME
Project Title
N/A
Fiscal Year Awarded
2023
Grant or Program
New England States Touring (NEST) Grant
Grant Amount
$1,700
Great Small Works (GSW) will spend a weekend in residency at Mayo Street Arts (MSA) offering two evenings of short-format toy theater work in three acts: the music of Tin Pan Alley, GSW’s “We Love Trees,” and a second selection from GSW’s repertoire: “Newspaper/Sidewalk Ballet” (adult) or “Lyzer the Miser” (family).
Featuring a tree growing in East Somerville on the same land where the musical Hadley family lived in the early 20th century, “We Love Trees” celebrates the beauty and value of trees, and warns of the decline in our urban tree canopy. The show uses diverse source materials from “Braiding Sweetgrass” and “The Secret Life of Trees" to Cajun folk tunes and the music of Stevie Wonder.
GSW is a visual theater collective created in 1995 in NYC, whose six members share roots in Bread and Puppet Theater. Its members are now dispersed, with outposts in Brooklyn, Hudson Valley, Montreal, and Cambridge. Founding members John Bell and Trudi Cohen anchor the base in Massachusetts.