Mettawee River Theatre Company
In 1976 Ralph Lee became Artistic Director of the Mettawee River Theatre Company. Mettawee's productions are based on creation myths, trickster tales, Sufi stories, legends and folklore from the world's many cultures. Most performances take place outdoors; they incorporate masks, puppetry, visual effects and live music. Each summer Mettawee gives over twenty-five performances in upstate New York and New England, traveling to rural communities that are likely to have no other exposure to live theater. These performances take place in parks, public lawns, fields and town greens. The company has also appeared at many festivals, including the 1991 New York International Festival of the Arts, the New Theater Festival in Baltimore, the Universiade in Edmonton, Alberta and the National Puppetry Festivals in San Luis Obispo, California and in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania and on a month-long tour of Alaska. Since 1984 they have finished their summer tour with performances in the garden of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City.
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