WILL BE HAPPENING
January 2025:
We Live to Die: The Grieving Widows Club FAREWELL B!NGO + VIEWING PARTY
Hosted by Leonie Bell + LOCAL GRANDMA
January 27
7 - 10 PM
Presented as part of Exponential Festival 2025
Welcome back for a last hurrah!
We’re throwing a viewing partyto 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.
This work is supported by the Mental Insight Foundation
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Let it Flow: A Clowning Workshop
Hannah Mitchell + LOCAL GRANDMA
Tuesday Jan 28 + Wednesday Jan 29
Time: 7 - 9:30 PM at Brick Aux (Williamsburg, NYC/ Lenapehoking)
Hop into your body and out of your head; welcome to the world of the ha-ha-ha! Filled to the brim with beautiful chaos and hilarious failures, in this class, we will play games that get you in touch with your innate sense of play and spontaneity & bring you into the present moment onstage.
Participant cap: 8
Participants can sign up for one or both workshops!
$50/class (as always, snacks will be served!)
Hannah Mitchell is an actor, theater-maker, and educator whose process is guided by the improvisational arts, especially clown & bouffon. She devises new experimental works of theater, performs live comedy bits, and regularly collaborates with various ensembles, including her clown company, WüfPak, and the experimental theater collective, CHILD. Hannah has performed at many venues around NYC, including The Public, The Brick, The Park Ave Armory, The Collapsable Hole, Lincoln Center, LifeWorld, The New Ohio, Theater Mitu, HERE Arts, Target Margin, and The Brooklyn Comedy Collective, among others. She guest lectures in clown at The School of Visual Arts, and teaches independent workshops around NYC. hannahmitchell.net
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March 2025:
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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