“Pontine Theatre is a
small miracle. This theatre has used puppets, mime and stagecraft to
convey visions of the past to modern audiences for more than 35 years.
Artistic Directors, Marguerite Mathews and Greg Gathers, conspire to
fascinate the contemporary mind with original works based on the
stories and literature of New England. There’s really nothing else
like it anywhere.”
—New Hampshire Magazine
To bring Pontine to your community, contact us at: info@pontine.org
AVAILABLE DECEMBER 2023
A NEW ENGLAND CHRISTMAS
Each season, Pontine’s artistic directors ring in the holiday season by staging a selection of stories and poems by New England authors. Past programs have featured interpretations of works by Sarah One Jewett, William Dean Howells, Alice Brown, Kate Douglas Wiggin and Odgen Nash, among others. Combining storytelling with puppetry and toy theatre, Pontine brings new life to old favorites and highlights forgotten treasures of New England’s Yuletide past.
AVAILABLE APRIL / MAY 2024
ROBERT FROST’S NEW HAMPSHIRE
Pontine Theatre’s Co-Artistic Directors present a new work based on the early poems of Robert Frost, a long-time summer resident of Franconia NH. Frost’s first of four Pulitzer Prizes was awarded in 1924 for his volume: “New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes.”
Known for his New England settings, his down to earth, stark depictions of the difficulties of rural farm life, and his use of colloquial speech, Robert Frost is widely admired as a true American Master.
Harriet Munroe, publisher and editor of “Poetry,” wrote that “perhaps no other poet in our history has put the best of the Yankee spirit into a book so completely.” She notes that while Frost's narrative, character-based poems are often dark and satirical, Frost always has a “sympathetic humor” towards his subjects.
