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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
$2,000
Marta Mozelle Macrostie will spend a weekend in residency at Mayo Street Arts (MSA) offering a performance of her one-woman clown show, “Please Ship This Wet Gift.”
Marta is the Artistic Director of NYC-based Brave Bucket Co., which makes puppet theater for family and adult audiences that is playful, rooted in complex characters, and tells original stories. Their work has received support from the Jim Henson Foundation, and its members have worked in puppetry for over 10 years creating, performing, and teaching for fancy folks like Sesame Street, Banksy, and The New Victory Theater.
This original solo show—Brave Bucket's second work for family audiences—uses drawing, audience suggestions, made-up songs, puppetry, and cardboard sharks to explore dealing with the things in life that are unfair, scary, sad, and just really annoying. “Wet Gift” melds clown theater with puppetry expertise to bring compassion and lightness to the heavy stuff.