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Community Creation Session

Help create the next A Broken Umbrella Theatre show.

Coogan Pavilion, Edgewood Park

Free

Part of Art Walk

Join a 2-hour community creation session exploring ideas for A Broken Umbrella Theatre's next original piece set in Revolutionary Era New Haven. No preparation or experience necessary.

About This Event

Creation Sessions are where we gather to collaborate, dream, and build the ingredients of a new ABUT show — before there's a script, before there's design. First we dream.

Through theatre exercises, improv, research, brainstorming, and creative story-making, we generate the raw material that eventually becomes one of our one-of-a-kind productions. You can write, act, craft, listen, throw out wild ideas — whatever pulls you in.

What we're working on: Revolutionary Era New Haven (working title). Our next original piece, inspired by revolutionary New Haven's historical and radical spirit. We'll explore characters like statesman Roger Sherman; Jethro Luke, New Haven's earliest Black property owner; and Benedict Arnold, the infamous traitor. The show will be performed at a site-specific location in New Haven, TBD.

Want to host one for your group? ABUT runs Creation Sessions for classes, book clubs, religious groups, neighborhood committees, theatre troupes — we'll come to you. Email rachel@abrokenumbrella.org.

Art Walk weekend activities are supported by The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven.

Community Foundation for Greater New Haven

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