“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 45 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
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AVAILABLE DECEMBER 2026
A NEW ENGLAND CHRISTMAS
This season’s edition of Pontine’s annual holiday celebration features an original staging of Alice Brown’s short story, “Honey and Myrrh.” Published in 1899, in her collection “Tiverton Tales,” the story is set on Christmas Eve. A whimsical conversation between a spinster and the schoolmaster who boards with her leads to the rekindling of an old romance.
Also on the program is a warmly fantastical tale by Mary Wilkins Freeman, “Jimmy Scarecrow’s Christmas.”
Both stories feature Pontine’s signature blend of storytelling, puppetry and Victorian toy theatre.
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AVAILABLE APRIL / MAY 2027
GREEN ISLAND STORIES
Sarah Orne Jewett, born and raised in South Berwick, Maine, first introduced the Blackett family–Almira, her brother William and their widowed mother–in a chapter of her masterpiece, “The Country of the Pointed Firs,” published in 1896. Readers fell in love with this island family, with their country wisdom, their sweetness and their fortitude, and demanded more stories.
Jewett obliged by following up with “A Dunnet Shepherdess” in 1899 and “William’s Wedding” in 1910. Marguerite Mathews and Greg Gathers brings this trilogy to the stage in an original adaptation featuring a blend of storytelling, puppetry and Victorian toy theatre, performed in tribute to the 50th anniversary of Pontine’s founding in 1977.
To bring Pontine to your community, contact us at: info@pontine.org
Pontine Theatre’s touring programs are supported by grants from the Jack and Dorothy Byrne Foundation, Market Basket and the National Endowment for the Arts.