WinterSea Theatre Experiment presents — STORM DAMAGE 10/14 & Companion Poetry/Sound Workshop 10/16 at 2026 Belfast Poetry Festival
This special return performance of the 2025 STORM DAMAGE Musical Poetry Tour will open the Belfast Poetry Festival — October 14th, 2026 6:30pm at the Belfast Maskers Theatre.
Tickets to the performance are free — due to limited seating, reservations are recommended.
WinterSea Theatre Experiment presents — STORM DAMAGE: Transformative Healing — Musical Poetry Performance, words written and performed by Lisa Ann Reilich, music arranged and performed by Gary Bushee and directed by Margaret Mae Reilich-Godino and Ensemble.
Join us for a powerful performance of poetry
*For transparency, this performance touches the topics of sudden loss and grief.
Run time is 90 minutes with no intermission.
A companion generative poetry & sound workshop to the STORM DAMAGE performance will also be offered as part of the Festival on Friday, October 16th, 3:30-5:30pm — The Weft and Weave of the Way: Elevating and Deepening the Reach of Spoken Word with Music and Sound, led by Gary Bushee & Lisa Ann Reilich.
Registration for the workshop is free — due to limited space, preregistration is required.
VIRTUAL GOODIES AND PERFORMANCES
The 2025 Tour Performances took place in five different locations — Sullivan, Bar Harbor, Blue Hill, Machias and Brewer — from March 23 through April 6, 2025.
We are so grateful to all our hosting venues to date, especially to New Surry Theatre, who not only contributed their beautiful space, but also supported us with their technology and streaming platform allowing us to have both a live audience AND a virtual one!
Photo Credit Tom Howard from live stream.
We were doubly blessed for how well the performance was received both in the theatre — with a standing ovation — and from the streaming screen!
Here is just some of the feedback we received after from our combined audiences ~
“Awesome and powerful!”
“…Deeply personal, yet also playful and transcendent. It will be on my mind for a long time to come…”
“… I could feel [Lisa] speaking for so many of us on our [grief] journeys… I very definitely cried, but I also smiled and yes, I danced.”
“What an amazing and beautiful expression of profound loss and resurrection.”
“Taking Healing to the next level!”
“… stunning and deeply felt… so full of tenderness …”
“Amazingly beautiful performance…”
“No words … just WOW…”
Thank you to all who have shared in the STORM DAMAGE experience so far!
For our friends joining us for our virtual performance hosted by New Surry Theatre on 3/30/2025 at 3pm ET — or just those wishing to savor the STORM DAMAGE experience — we have created this page for you!
Scroll through to enjoy & enhance your STORM DAMAGE virtual Musical Poetry Performance experience.
STORM DAMAGE: Transformative Healing — Musical Poetry Performance Flyer
STORM DAMAGE — Prologue Music Video
STORM DAMAGE — Performance Edition (read along with performance)
STORM DAMAGE — Epilogue Music Video
STORM DAMAGE — 3.30.2025 Full Performance Recording courtesy of New Surry Theatre
NOTE: Performance is 97 minutes long and begins at minute 33:55 and ends at 2:10:33 — It is preceded by Prologue Video (link above ) and Epilogue Video (link above) which can be viewed with the performance or separately.
STORM DAMAGE — 4.2.2025 Full Performance Recording courtesy of Clifton Moser
Performance from April 2, 2025 at the University of Maine at Machias Art Gallery, videography by Clifton Moser.
COUNTY WIDE NEWS 3/18/2025: “Storm Damage” explores sudden loss, grief and transformative healing
MEET OUR ENSEMBLE
Lisa Ann Reilich is a mother, farmer, poet, theatre artist, teacher and spiritual seeker. She spends the majority of her minutes and hours tending the land and animals of Painted Pepper Farm on the Downeast coast of Maine with her daughter Margaret Mae, living the silver linings of life and surrendering gratefully to the present moment.
Margaret Mae Reilich-Godino has been in and around theatre projects for as long as she can remember. A farmer and poet, her happy place is at home on Painted Pepper Farm with her mom and goats, and in volunteering where Love is actively in action.
Gary Bushee is a multifaceted musician, artist, storyteller and student of human ecology, currently exploring the realms of experimental theatre. He gratefully resides on his wooded Sullivan, Maine homestead where he is working on creating a diversified holistic music studio encompassing education, therapy and phenomenology of sound and movement in the field of play.
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