Fools Mass

Fools Mass has been an annual offering for over twenty years. Set during the Plague years, a group of village idiots are forced to enact their own Mass due to the untimely death of their beloved pastor. Celebrating the sacred and profane, the miracle of life and the enigma of death, with enchanted choral singing, riotous comic buffoonery, and extraordinary dramatic invention, Fools Mass becomes especially relevant for our own ravaged times, embracing the heart of mercy and the sanctity of the human spirit. “The performers wear the vestments, not of priests but of medieval bedlam idiots who are called upon by circumstance to celebrate a Mass even though they do not know how. Moving easily between the sublime and the ridiculous, drawing its audience through laughter toward participation and contemplation, the work resists being categorized as either theater or religion, becoming both at once in an event experienced by many as transformative.” – The Encyclopedia of Religion 2005