DAMASCUS, PA - Farm Arts Collective, fresh off the pavement at the Scranton Fringe Festival last week, continues its regional tour of its critically acclaimed climate change-themed play Dream On The Farm.

The Farm Arts Collective ensemble of stilt walkers, musicians, and perfarmers (many of the actors work on the company’s host farm Willow Wisp Organic Farm) will tour to Hawley, PA on Sunday October 3 to perform at 1 p.m. as part of the Hawley Harvest Hoedown.

See the Dream On The Farm Video trailer by Scranton-based media group Posture at www.vimeo.com/602048642.

Dream on the Farm 2021, directed by artistic director, Tannis Kowalchuk, follows the journey of two scientists, Carl Sagan and Lynn Margulis (deceased American scientists who were, at one time married). The microbiologist and the astronomer played by Jess Beveridge as Margulis and Hudson Williams-Eynon as Sagan, are reunited in a boxing ring by a ringmaster referee (Tannis Kowalchuk) to compete in a sport in which the referee challenges them to “help save life on the planet.”

The adventure follows the two scientists who are tasked to take a competitive fact-finding journey across the farm with the audience in tow. The microbiologist, Lynn Margulis meets a microbe on the farm’s compost pile; a funghi on a decomposing log; an exhausted hungry butterfly singing her lament in a field of flowers; and a corn escaping the monoculture of an industrial farm. On the other side of the farm, the astronomer Carl Sagan meets the Atmosphere, a beatnik in a greenhouse smoking a hookah; the Hydrosphere, a dancing stilt walker kicking up a storm; and Sonny, a man designing a way to escape planet earth, like a billionaire space explorer (except he is not a billionaire).

The performance, filled with original music played live by musicians and composed by ensemble composers Doug Rogers and Rima Fand draws on themes that explore the world through two lenses or looking glasses-- the microscope and the telescope. The competition concludes with the scientists presenting their findings to the judges in a climatic dance of ecology, and the results deliver a climate change message that is urgent and poignant.

Kowalchuk and the ensemble, have committed to presenting a decalogue of plays about climate change in the years 2020-2030. The collective operates out of a theatre venue located in a greenhouse on Willow Wisp Organic Farm, and was founded as an agri-cultural organization in 2018 with a mission to intersect farming, performance, food, and ecology as life- sustaining practice for the community.

For more information visit farmartscollective.org.