IN THE EYES OF ISLE THEATER, ALL THE NATURAL WORLD’S THEIR STAGE
The best set designs in live theater can transport audiences, sometimes to far-flung places, sometimes to more intimate settings. Elsinore castle in HAMLET. A 1930s Alabama courthouse in TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD. Rarer, though, are the occasions where productions are staged in site-specific settings, often outdoors, forming a…
ARTISTS SOUGHT REFUGE FROM PANDEMIC BY RETURNING TO MAINE, AND FOUND OPPORTUNITY
Marvin Merritt IV had big dreams and big ideas when he graduated from Harvard University last year. They did not involve Deer Isle. “I was intending to head to New York or L.A. or Germany, and I was going to either do experimental theater in Berlin or vie for Broadway in New York or film work in L.A.,” said the 2016 graduate of Deer Isle-Stonington…