“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 monologues, 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.”

This Dixon Place workshop production is made possible with support from Gerald J. & Dorothy R. Friedman Foundation, Mellon Foundation, NY State Council on the Arts with support from Gov Kathy Hochul & the NY State Legislature, and donors like you!