SCHMIDTSMITHSCHMIDT
by Leonie Bell with LOCAL GRANDMA
Presented December 7 - 17, 2023 at the Brick Theater in Brooklyn/Lenapehoking
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Photography by Walter Włodarczyk
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
Caroline Burkhart
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.
*The run included a special multi-cam live stream by Zanni Productions on December 17th. Click button above to watch the show
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.
