Adams Theater Presents 'Note From a Sheep I Met at the Dawn'

01:30PM / Wednesday, September 24, 2025Print Story | Email Story

ADAMS, Mass. — The Adams Theater will present NYC based Japanese theater maker, performer, animator, and visual artist Maiko Kikuchi's "Note From a Sheep I Met at the Dawn," on Sept. 27 at 7:30 p.m.

It's part puppetry work, part performance art, all focused on the boundaries between dreams and reality, and finding a way to bring our daydreams to life, stated a press release.

Tickets, which range from $20-$35, are available at www.adamstheater.org/events. This is the second of the theater's three-part puppetry series this season; the third, "Feral," by Sandglass Theater, takes place Oct. 18.)

According to a press release:

Maiko Kikuchi has been studying this phenomenon for years through her theater, puppetry and installation practice. Her works are visible daydreams, the extension of a world inside her mind; "Note From a Sheep I Met at the Dawn" will take audiences through six vignettes where surrealistic worlds are created, inspired by diary-like narrations. Using props and ordinary materials, she transforms the neutral space into an immersive installation of visible daydreams, inviting viewers to ponder the delicate boundary between reality and dreams.

Kikuchi has spent time in the past working on "Note from a Sheep I Met at the Dawn" and other works in various other residency settings, including at LaMama Experimental Theater Club in New York.

After receiving her B.A. in Theater Arts and Fashion Design from Musashino Art University in 2008, and M.F.A. in Sculpture from Pratt Institute in 2012, Kikuchi's desire to broaden the expression of her daydreams led her to the theatre field in 2013. Her puppet theatre works have been produced or presented at The Puppet Lab, St. Ann's Warehouse, Dixon Place, the Public Theater, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She has presented her visual art work in both solo and group exhibitions nationwide, creating animations for musicians, theatre companies and cultural organizations. Kikuchi is one of four curators of Object Movement Puppetry Residency and a board member of Puppetry Guild of Greater New York. Her recent project in collaboration with Spencer Lott at the Japan Society, "9000 Paper Balloons," reflected on Kikuchi's family history in Japan in relation to World War II.

Reserve tickets and see our full season lineup at www.adamstheater.org/events.

The Adams Theater participates in Mass Cultural Council's Card to Culture program, in collaboration with the Department of Transitional Assistance, the Women, Infants & Children Nutrition Program, and the Mass Health Connector.

EBT, WIC, and ConnectorCare cardholders receive free admission to our shows and events by presenting their cards at our Box Office. See the complete list of participating organizations offering EBT, WIC, and ConnectorCare discounts.

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Letter: Progress Means Moving on Paper Mill Cleanup

Letter to the Editor05:00PM / Wednesday, February 11, 2026

To the Editor:

Our town is facing a clear choice: move a long-abandoned industrial site toward cleanup and productive use or allow it to remain a deteriorating symbol of inaction.

The Community Development team has applied for a $4 million EPA grant to remediate the former Curtis Mill property, a site that has sat idle for more than two decades. The purpose of this funding is straightforward: address environmental concerns and prepare the property for safe commercial redevelopment that can contribute to our tax base and economic vitality.

Yet opposition has emerged based on arguments that miss the point of what this project is designed to do. We are hearing that basement vats should be preserved, that demolition might create dust, and that the plan is somehow "unimaginative" because it prioritizes cleanup and feasibility over wishful reuse of a contaminated, aging structure.

These objections ignore both the environmental realities of the site and the strict federal requirements tied to this grant funding. Given the condition of most of the site's existing buildings, our engineering firm determined it was not cost-effective to renovate. Without cleanup, no private interest will risk investment in this site now or in the future.

This is not a blank check renovation project. It is an environmental remediation effort governed by safety standards, engineering assessments, and financial constraints. Adding speculative preservation ideas or delaying action risks derailing the very funding that makes cleanup possible in the first place. Without this grant, the likely outcome is not a charming restoration, it is continued vacancy, ongoing deterioration, and zero economic benefit.

For more than 20 years, the property has remained unused. Now, when real funding is within reach to finally address the problem, we should be rallying behind a practical path forward not creating obstacles based on narrow or unrealistic preferences.

I encourage residents to review the proposal materials and understand what is truly at stake. The Adams Board of Selectmen and Community Development staff have done the hard work to put our town in position for this opportunity. That effort deserves support.

Progress sometimes requires letting go of what a building used to be so that the community can gain what it needs to become.

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