Im Dunkeln sieht man besser

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The Brick presents Im Dunkeln sieht man besser (translation: you can see better in the dark) by Leonie Bell with LOCAL GRANDMA playing Oct 1-18, 2026 at The Brick Theater running time 70 minutes tickets $25-50 In a town where the living and undead cohabitate: Birthday girl Biggi performs a cabaret and attends a death. Hartmann, a rule-loving undead local, experiences a life-altering scheduling problem. Accountant-gone-theater-producer Harriet discovers a ghost from her past and decides to haunt them back. This revenge play features mean school girls, choral song + text in German and English. Im Dunkeln sieht man besser is LOCAL GRANDMA’s third full-length production. CREATIVE TEAM Text: Leonie Bell Direction: Leonie Bell + Celia Krefter Costume Design: Karen Boyer Lighting Design: Celia Krefter Scenic Associate and Props Designer: Jon Schatzberg Set Design: Forest Entsminger Sound Design: Leonie Bell Fight Direction + Gore Design: Bailey Van Schepen Stage Management: Akvinder Kaur Assistant Stage Manager/Run Crew + Screaming Title Maid: Stella Oh Press and Marketing: Privy Collective Producing Team: Leonie Bell + Celia Krefter A LOCAL GRANDMA Production CAST Leonie Bell CHEEKS Theodor Gabriel Julliette Holliday John R. Howley Marcella Murray Stella Oh Hanna Westi ABOUT THE ARTISTS Leonie Bell (she/her) is a German-American theater artist from Berlin, based in New York. Leonie’s pieces feature live song, genre-fluid dance and physicality, and frequently include voluntary audience participation and communal rituals. She creates highly physical, dark humor theater landscapes populated by pseudo-historical, multilingual narratives that often center matriarchal lineages and imagine nature as a main character. In NYC, she has presented work at Target Margin Theater, Performance Space NY, BAM, The Whitney Museum, The Brick, Center for Performance Research, and other venues. Leonie produces much of her work through her free-form theater…

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