BRATTLEBORO — Theatre Adventure students with disabilities are soaring with self-confidence through a collaborative creative process that honors the artistry and voice of each individual actor.
Performing artists with the nonprofit have embarked on a journey of their own for the creation of their show, Daydreaming.
“Peter Pan flies into the open windows of the nursery. Those open windows invite a quite fantastical journey of other worlds of adversity, discovery, triumph, and claiming one's belonging,” organizers said in a news release. “Windows of inspiration. Windows of imagination. Windows of connectivity.”
To begin this journey into new approaches to theater during a pandemic, each performer created original characters, then developed stories that expressed their dreams, passions, concerns, and desires.
These themes included “walking unassisted, a joyful wedding, overcoming a fear, embracing unique abilities, helping a friend, inspiring laughter, expressing confidence, and finding one's way out of the darkness,” organizers said.
And the participants added another layer - the art of puppetry.
Organizers say this show is “an invitation to enter a dream world - a world that lifts one's spirits, a world that knows no boundaries and limits, a world that with buoyancy helps to ignite one's dreams and the encouragement to claim them with fire, breath, artistry, and belief in self.”