Broadway World advances ‘Transformer Tales’ performances
Broadway World reported the Penobscot Theatre Co. will present “Transformer Tales: Stories of the Dawnland,” a new play about a Wabanaki tribe hero who taught people the arts of civilization and protected them from danger. The original work is the culmination of a yearlong collaboration among the theatre, Penobscot elders and playwrights, native scholars and educators from Indian Island, according to the article. Actors aged 4–19 years old who are in the theatre’s summer camp program will perform the play in August at the Indian Island School, Bangor Opera House and at Blackwoods Amphitheater in Acadia National Park. “Transformer Tales: Stories of the Dawnland” is funded in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts and with support from several organizations, including the University of Maine Humanities Center, the article states.