Lions

Philly Fringe

2025

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Written and Performed by Scott R. Sheppard and Alice Yorke
Directed and Developed by Sarah Blush
Produced by Lightning Rod Special
Set and Props by Colleen Murray
Costumes by Rebecca Kanach
Lights by Masha Tsimring
Sound by Johnny Gasper
Stage Manager Emmie Parker
Additional Costume Fabrication Normandy Sherwood

An unsentimental duet about the business of letting our dads die. With a dose of Kafka and A Christmas Carol, Lions disassembles the myths our fathers told themselves about what it means to be a great man.

"Director Sarah Blush, also credited as the show’s developer, imbues the cheery, denying donk of the wrong laptop password with as much drama as a clap of thunder"

Alaina Johns, Broad Street Review

"Equal measures of dignity, pomp, and absurdity...a perfect evocation of how the turbulent emotions of grief overlie the dry-eyed bureaucracy of death"

Alaina Johns, Broad Street Review

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Abby Glusker, UTA