“Memory Rings,” a spellbinding journey into the woods of a vanishing past and even more precarious future, is presented by the Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA on Friday, April 8, 8 p.m. and Saturday, April 9, 2 and 8 p.m. at the UCLA Freud Playhouse.

By turns meditative and playful, this stunning theatrical collage from the inventive Phantom Limb Company combines fairytale, fable, puppetry, choreography, original music and striking visual design to chronicle 5,000 years of human and environmental change, all under the watchful gaze of the world’s oldest living tree.

Inspired by the “Methuselah Tree,” a California bristlecone pine estimated to be more than 4,800 years old, “Memory Rings” is the second installment in Phantom Limb’s trilogy of original works about the environment. Its time-bending forest dreamscapes — incorporating everything from the “Epic of Gilgamesh” to our penchant for Google searches — chart the humor and hubris of our species, the loss of our identification with the natural world, and the hope that we may yet be able to rewrite our story.

A discussion with members of the Phantom Limb Company follows the performance. The audience is also invited to a pre-show courtyard exhibit, installation, art-making station and pop-up library featuring books, links, publications and related materials about sustainability, the environment, and other relevant research.

Purchase tickets and find more information here.