LIVE at Ancram Opera House
July 8-10, Friday, Saturday at 8p, Sunday at 3p

As part of Ancram Opera House's Summer Play Lab Series, artist and activist Celeste Lecesne returns to the stage to continue their work on POOF! Each performance will be followed by a talkback led by resident respondent Kim Sykes.

Fairies have always enjoyed a close association with the natural world. But with so much of the natural world under threat from Climate Change, the fairies are not pleased, and they are beginning to show up in surprising ways. In addition to making everything more fabulous just by simply being, fairies have come to pass along a few spells that will be needed in the days to come. One such fairy is scheduled to make a rare appearance - and they will have their say. Join them.

”Celeste enters through the wild gardens of the glen as a fairy, both as a real (i.e. magic) fairy and, well, a real fairy (what they used to call gays). In the most imaginative of monologue, with uncanny puck and razor sharp wit, Celeste weaves the legend of fairies and their magical ability to survive with the world history of repression, culminating with a contemplation of the earth on the environmental edge today. In an amazingly spiritual stream of consciousness - Celeste’s language is rhapsodic – “Poof”emerges finally as a prayer for the future. Amen. “Poof!” is theater as pure as it should always be.”

-The Berkshire Edge