PARIS – Celebration Barn Theater invites you to travel to Mahoosuc Mills, Maine, with writer and performer Susan Poulin and collaborator Gordon Carlisle and visit with their most popular character, Ida LeClair.

A self-professed home shopping networkaholic with a double-wide mobile home, Ida is full of stories and a yard filled with “treasures.”

From a crocheted toilet paper cover to the complete Box Car Willy record collection, to plenty of the latest gossip going around Mahoosuc Mills, there’s something for everyone at Ida and Charlie LeClair’s yard sale.

Ida will share her budding knowledge of Feng Shui, her conversion to catalog shopping and her latest adventures with the Women Who Run With the Moose. She has plenty of tips on how to run a successful yard sale.

Poulin will star in the one-woman show, “Ida’s Havin’ A Yard Sale,” at 8 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 25, at the theater.

Selected by Portland Magazine as one of the Ten Most Intriguing People in Maine, Poulin, a Maine native, has been creating and touring her original theatrical productions for 15 years. She has been a featured performer at the Women’s Performance Festival at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, The Maine Festival, the Minneapolis Fringe Theater Festival and the Cassandra Project.

Poulin was voted Contemporary Story Champion at the Yankee Yarns Contest in Keene, N.H., and has twice been selected as a N.H. State Council on the Arts Individual Artistic Fellowship finalist. In 2005, Poulin received a N.H. State Council on the Arts Traditional Arts apprenticeship grant to study traditional Franco-American music with master artist Lucie Therrien. Poulin’s essays have been heard on Maine and N.H. Public Radio.

“Ida’s Havin’ a Yard Sale!” was recently featured in the book “Garage Sale America,” by Bruce Littlefield. The play received the Portsmouth Herald’s 2005 Spotlight on the Arts Award for best original script, and Poulin was voted Best Actress in a Play for her portrayal of Ida.

Tickets to the show are $12 for adults, $10 for seniors and $8 for students. Reservations are recommended and can be made by calling the box office at 743-8452. Celebration Barn Theater is on Stock Farm Road, just off Route 117.

For more information, visit www.CelebrationBarn.com.