HAPPENING SOON
We Live to Die: The Grieving Widows Club
FAREWELL B!NGO + VIEWING PARTY
Hosted by Leonie Bell + LOCAL GRANDMA
January 27, 2025
7 - 10 PM
Presented as part of Exponential Festival 2025
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Welcome back for a last hurrah!
We’re throwing a viewing party to bid adieu to the world of We Live to Die: The Grieving Widows Club
7 PM
Bingo + prizes + highlights + cocktails + hors d'oeuvres
(hosted by your local grumpy nuns and naughty grandmas)
8 PM
In-person + online viewing of
Episodes 1 - 3 of We Live to Die: The Grieving Widows Club
9 PM
Euro-trash classics, conga lines + chillin’
10 PM
Go to bed or the bar depending on what kind of local grandma you are (we condone both)
Entrance is free, RSVP required
Can’t come?
Join us online at 8 PM (EST) on The Exponential Festival Youtube Channel to watch Episodes 1 - 3!
About the show:
We Live to Die: The Grieving Widows Club is a three-part miniseries about community theater-doing maids + grieving widows + murder.
This party includes the premiere of the last and final episode of this dark humor multi-media mockumentary series.
In Episode 3:
‘Tis that time of Madame’s decline -
a grisly murder of one maid’s design.
Winnie has had it: she’s done with the pest
of serving this witch who thinks she knows best
to whose bullying banter she’s been victim too oft,
so often that she’s decided this hag must be offed.
Also occurring amidst the blood spatter: The Annual Widowers Ball + an artistic crisis at the Community Maids Theater.
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Learn about Episodes 1 + 2 at localgrandma.org
This work is supported by the Mental Insight Foundation
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Morgen bin ich wieder da premieres in Brooklyn, NY / Lenapehoking
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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)
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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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