HAPPENING IN 2024
Spring:
Episode 3 of We Live to Die: The Grieving Widows Club premieres! Scroll down to watch Ep. 2
Fall:
The Stinking Nose: A Knofi-Mahlzeit (Collaboration with Brandon Woolf + Matt Korahais) presents a 3-night work-in-progress show (dinner included) in in Brooklyn, NY / Lenapehoking
HAPPENED
On the edge of a city: Lottie the Librarian and her adoptive grandmother Tante Eunice Geld secretly live in their garden allotment. Witches sing night-time songs around the last sacred grove in the neighborhood in preparation of a death party. Teenage daughter Susi Schmidt schemes to finally join her long-lost father in America and Mama keeps a secret that is eating her from the inside out. An ancestral forest beckons, and Dietrich, child to Mom in the Moon, attempts jazz.
Featuring
Leonie Bell
Rawya El Chab
Lianne Elsouki
Marcella Murray
Julliette Holliday
+ Hanna Westi
In this matrilineal, dark humor landscape, the lonesome search for one another amidst the chaotic + mundane and the trees await a return. Choral song + pedestrian movement; performed in German, English, and Denglish.
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The Brick presents
SchmidtSmithSchmidt
Created by Leonie Bell with LOCAL GRANDMA
December 7-10 + 14 - 17* 2023
*Special live streaming performance on Sunday December 17 @ 2pm via The Brick YouTube Channel filmed live by Zanni Productions. (8 PM CET & 11 AM PST )
cw: death, slow strobe
SchmidtSmithSchmidt was made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature and the Mental Insight Foundation.
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Watch EPISODE TWO
of We Live To Die: The Grieving Widows Club
Created by Leonie Bell & LOCAL GRANDMA
A new dark humor mixed-media, mockumentary-style short film about grieving widows and their maids living in pseudo-Victorian times.
*Premiered online on January 31st, 2023 as part of the Exponential Festival 2023
View program here.
Greetings, people:
We return to your attic
with Episode 2 of We Live to Die: The Grieving Widows Club
also known also known as the episodes where
a widow's convention with histrionics and weeping contests occurs
&
the Community Maids Theater premieres its newest piece
under the playwrightship and direction
and tyranny
of Winnie,
maid to Madame
(her nemesis).
Gut spilling & revenge themes;
it all goes splendidly of course.
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This is the continuation of a multi-media short films series by Leonie Bell.
Run time: 20 minutes
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