WATERVILLE – Mabou Mines, a New York-based theater company that has won more than 50 major awards, will perform “Lucia’s Chapters” Friday, Feb. 23, at Colby College.

Since its inception in 1970, artists of Mabou Mines have created 70 original productions in English, Spanish and French. Their works, which have toured nationally and internationally, are at the forefront of experimentation in technology and multidisciplinary creations with visual artists, puppeteers and composers.

“Lucia’s Chapters” explores the life and death of Lucia Joyce, the adored daughter of James Joyce. As a young woman in Paris, Lucia’s life was filled with writers, artists and intellectuals. She was a dancer and a painter. Her father believed Lucia to be the true inheritor of his genius. But while still in her 20s, her behavior grew erratic. For the next 50 years, until her death in 1982, Lucia was confined to a mental hospital for schizophrenia.

This production imagines Lucia’s afterlife as she navigates, using her own “Book of the Dead,” a journey toward final illumination. Haunted by a dark figure, Lucia struggles with her past and her fate and, in turn, sheds light on her place in the Joyce legacy. Weaving movement and language, “Lucia’s Chapters” reveals a brilliant yet deeply troubled woman who is perhaps best understood through her father’s work.

The show will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Strider Theater, Runnals Building, on the college campus. Tickets are $3 for general admission, $2 for seniors.