Our camps are energetic and busy.
We create and collaborate from morning arrival to pick-up time at 4:00. We play all day, with an emphasis on the process of creation.
“This is a unique experience for many children. Being able to be creative and act outside is like becoming the moving illustrations to your favorite children’s book.”
– Rainbow Squier, TITW Director
Theater in the Woods Camp kids:
- Develop deeper connection to the woods and the natural world by interacting imaginatively and freely with it
- Build personal confidence through creating and supporting live theater performances
- Become a community through shared experiences, challenges and successes.
- Make great friends and new creative partnerships!
For 28 years Theater in the Woods plays have proven their power to enchant and edify.
Once upon a time (1996 to be exact), children’s book author Frank Asch started writing plays for SolarFest, beginning a much-loved tradition at New England’s premier solar-powered music and arts festival.
We impart theater skills.
Working within the structure of Frank’s and other plays, including ones we create, we impart theater skills: improvisation, voice and speech, movement, writing, editing, staging, music making, and most importantly, ensemble: teamwork. We discover and develop the scenes of the plays in the woods and fields.
Our creative space in the barn
Come enjoy our woods, fields, a renovated barn and large tents as we play; we’ll eat great food and make great new friends!
A Typical Day
At camp June 24 – 28 (Bears) OR July 1 – 12 (Bobcats) OR July 22 – August 2 (Wolves)
8:45 AM – 4:00 PM
We work on improv, singing, movement, and expression, in the woods, under tents, and in the barn. We cast and write and rehearse, and play.
We hone and polish and then….
Friday, June 28 OR Friday, July 12 OR Friday, August 2
On the final Friday we show what we’ve created to parents and the community in a public performance.