The focus of this writing and performance weekend intensive is discovering and developing story. Through writing, voice, gesture and movement we allow stories to spawn other stories in a fluid and continuous process.

We pay close attention to how story comes to us – how it may be encoded in a feeling, sensation or image – and what, if any, resistance we may feel to certain aspects of the story. We learn how to follow the existing story to the story-yet-to-be-told until we feel whole.

This workshop is for writers, poets, plumbers, performers, couch potatoes, visual artists, people who are creatively stuck and those who are shy about speaking in public.

Larraine Brown is a writer, theater activist and organizer. She has facilitated a number of collaborative experimental theater projects throughout the country. She uses a wide variety of techniques to promote personal and social change, drawing on her work with Brazilian revolutionary director Augusto Boal, David Diamond’s Theatre for Living and renowned acting coach Deena Levy. Over the past 25 years she has developed a unique method of working with groups and invidviduals that frees natural voice, mines creativity and produces profound internal movement.

The intensive begins Friday evening at 7:00 and runs through Sunday at 1:00. The cost of $450 includes instruction and meals Saturday and Sunday. Accommodations are available at Fifth House for $45 per night. Inquire about other places to stay nearby. Registration is limited. To hold your place, please send a deposit of $200 to Joan Hunter, 535 South Bridgton Road, Bridgton, ME 04009. Questions? Visit www.fifthhouselodge.net or call either Joan (207-647-3506) or Larraine (207-323-2747).