Lemon Girls or Art for the Artless

Written and composed by OBIE Award winning playwright and composer, Ellen Maddow
Directed by Paul Zimet
Choreography by Sean Donovan
Set and Video Design by Anna Kiraly
Costume Design by Kiki Smith
Lighting Design by Mary Ellen Stebbins
Sound Design by Tyler Kieffer
Production Stage Manager: Kristin Rose Kelly
Cast:  Michael Michelle Lynch, Ellen Maddow, Lizzie Olesker, Tina Shepard, Louise Smith, and Jack Wetherall
A comedic and revelatory music and dance/theater celebration of older women and the thrill of unlikely art.  Four long-time friends get talked into being in a performance at a local community center. Like dusty looking geodes that when cracked open reveal sparkling crystals, or pomegranates – dull and leathery on the outside, but filled with voluptuous bunches of red seeds -these women are full of contradictions.
At first we see them as a bunch of empty shell old ladies, cranky about anything new, and almost obliterated by the younger people who have overrun their world, but as they embark on their new adventure – creating dances, singing songs, telling nested stories – they reveal their singular histories, complex relationships, surprising professions, and unorthodox world views.
March 11-27, 2022
At La MaMa DownstairsTheatre
66 E. 4th Street, New York City

DANCES
FRIENDS
SPARKLING
DEPTHS