MAKE CREATE MORE: NEW WORK WEEKEND The Residency Readings
Join playwright and director Catherine Stewart for a weekend of readings, conversation, and creative exchange celebrating the culmination of her residency at The Dance Hall.
When siblings Joan and Hank Mercer invite celebrated true-crime podcaster Tanya Remnick into their suburban Maine home to investigate the decades-old disappearance of their parents, the search for a definitive story threatens to unravel the only family they have left.
A true-crime mystery wrapped in a family drama about vigilance, memory, and the different burdens men and women carry when violence becomes entertainment.
Cast: Susan Poulin as Joan, Wayne Asbury as Hank, and Emily Karel as Tanya
All events are free. RSVP encouraged.
Spend a weekend at The Dance Hall. Hear new work. Meet artists. Help shape what comes next.
Catherine Stewart is a playwright, director, and facilitator whose work explores the stories people inherit, the systems they inhabit, and the possibilities they imagine together. Her plays have been developed and presented by organizations including Northern Stage, Dartmouth College, Company One Theatre, Alliance Theatre, and The Players' Ring. She is the founder of Make Create More, a theatre-led design studio creating participatory experiences at the intersection of creativity, community, and social change.
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Make Create More is a theatre-led design studio empowering visionary leaders and their communities. Founded by artist Catherine Stewart, the studio creates new plays, participatory performances, creative retreats, and community-based experiences that help people explore complex human systems through story, dialogue, and collective imagination.
Recent collaborations and projects have included work with Boston Foundation, PowerPlay Interactive Development, The University of New Hampshire, Colby College, and Seacoast Impact Collaborative as well as communities across New England and the South. The works featured this weekend represent the next chapter of that practice - early explorations that will serve as the foundation for exciting new productions, partnerships, and community-engaged projects in the months and years ahead.