Friends of Merrymeeting Bay

Friends of Merrymeeting Bay (FOMB) would like Piti Theatre to return to ME – this time with their "Your Town" program and performance. In the wake of COVID, "Your Town" has become a largely online event. In this case, Piti artists will research our regions local and natural history and adapt their dramatic framework based on 19th century rural New England history for our community. Piti's "digital theatre" offering will be a pre-recorded video filmed on location in Bowdoinham and Bowdoin that draws inspiration from natural resource-based Bay-related vocations in fishing, ice harvesting, shipbuilding, textile mills and log drives between 1850 – 1900 in and around the Bay. Our community engagement component will be a two week theatre-film residency in two local elementary schools. Following the public screening and post-show moderated panel discussion, the songs and film will become community resources for our local libraries, historical societies, schools and colleges.