Maine Inside Out is partnering with Penquis Community Action Program, and The Maine Youth Action Network to bring Broken Clock to Bangor! 

Join us on Tuesday, October 28, at Penobscot Theatre Company for the next show. Doors at 1pm, Performance at 1:30pm.

MIO recently held back-to-back performances of “Broken Clock” at the Rockport Opera House and the Beyond the Bars Maine Conference at University of Southern Maine in Portland. The original play about incarceration, gun violence, grief, family, trust, hope, and time is drawing out powerful dialogue that continues to build through each performance.

The fall tour of “Broken Clock” continues this week with back to back performances and community dialogues in Rockport and Portland:

Thursday, October 2 at Rockport Opera House in collaboration with Conscious Revolution & Tapestry. Register for free tickets here! 

Friday, October 3 at the Beyond The Bars Maine Conference at University of Southern Maine (Glickman Library). 

The Fall tour of “Broken Clock” is in full swing right now with back-to-back performances at Mountain View Correctional Facility on Friday, September 19, and Bowdoin College on Monday, September 22. We are touring in communities, prisons, and on college campuses in a moment when public discourse is fragile, polarized, and threatening. On Friday and Monday, we will be performing in two different institutions and in conversation with two different demographics with the hope that this tour can connect us across systems and boundaries. The performance at Bowdoin College is open to the public and we invite you to join us. 

Parenting and family is a core theme in MIO’s touring production of “Broken Clock.” The play opens with a mother looking for childcare for her baby so she can pick up a shift at work in order to make rent. We have a full lineup of performances and community dialogues this Fall and would love for you to join us! 

Maine Inside Out’s creative ensemble traveled to Washington County for two performances of “Broken Clock” and theater workshops with migrant youth and families who are working the blueberry harvest. And our upcoming tour schedule!

Maine Inside Out is back from the July break and is kicking off the second half of the 2025 “Broken Clock” tour with two performances in Washington County! MIO is collaborating with Mano en Mano and The Blueberry Harvest School for a 3-day residency of performances and workshops. 

The “Broken Clock” tour continues to deepen. Three June performances inside Maine prisons and a special Juneteenth performance in Lewiston has transformed the play as each audience responded to the show. 

MIO is performing “Broken Clock” three more times this month. On June 11 and June 13, the creative ensemble performs inside Maine Correctional Center and Maine State Prison for audiences of incarcerated men. Then on Tuesday June 17, we are hosting a public performance for Juneteenth in Lewiston where we hope everyone will join us for an evening of community, performance, and dialogue.  

The Maine Inside Out board, staff, and Lewiston leadership group are working on MIO’s next strategic phase and we are thrilled to share our mission statement and vision with you. 

This year, MIO’s Creative Ensemble has been touring the original play, Broken Clock, and we will hold a special Juneteenth performance in Lewiston on June 17th at The Public Theatre. 

“Intense. Heart filling. Sad. Emotional. Loss. Isolation. Humanity. Generational trauma. Lost potential. Left behind. Trying and trying again.”

When asked to share what resonated with them in “Broken Clock,” these were words spoken by audience members following a performance last Thursday at Colby Arts in Waterville. Some audience members shared particular moments in the play that moved them….

Updates about MIO’s April community lunch, welcoming home Abdi, upcoming community open mic night and upcoming tour dates for Broken Clock!

We kicked off our first events of the year with “Time Served,” a community Open Mic at Recovery Connections of Maine (RCOM) and a performance of “Broken Clock” at University of Maine Farmington.

In 2025, the Maine Inside Out Creative Ensemble will be touring “Broken Clock” throughout the State of Maine. “Broken Clock” is an original play created by the Maine Inside Out Creative Ensemble about incarceration, gun violence, grief, family, trust, and time. MIO’s Creative Ensemble is a group of staff facilitators and Lewiston Community Artists using theater to explore themes connected to our identities, life experiences, and the world in which we exist. 

This past week, MIO’s Lewiston community group hosted our final event of 2024 “Everything Must Change” Open Mic at L/A Arts with support from the National Endowment for the Arts. It was a beautiful celebration. Thank you to everyone who joined us for a night of original poetry, comedy, music, and community.

The fall sessions of Maine Inside Out’s youth theater projects in Lewiston and Portland completed this past week with four original performances followed by community dialogues between the performers and the audiences!

Join us for the last MIO event of 2024!

Join us for our final events of 2024!

Portland Youth Performances at King Middle School & a Community Open Mic in Lewiston

Last week MIO kicked off our Broken Clock Tour with events in Lewiston and Portland. Thank you to everyone who joined us for the film premiere, performance, and community dialogue.