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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. Enter a world of breathing machines, Christmas ghosts, to-do lists, shirts that smell like grass, and the most romantic disappointments of our fathers’ lives. Part clown show and part deconstructed eulogy, Lions tries to honor our fathers by not denying them the humanity they could not always offer themselves. A show about death that is not about grief, but instead asks, ‘What does it mean to live a good life?‘
"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
