Good Grief

GOOD GRIEF! is an up-close-and-(hyper)personal mobilization of the joy, companionship, pleasure, rage, and vulnerability in grief. This 60-minute, deeply heartfelt dance-clown-theater-burlesque performance lays bare how pain is so close to pleasure, loss so close to  love, and grief an absurd mixed up process of clinging tight & letting go. Good Grief! invites the jostling loose and letting out of laughter, tears, and anything else that might be shed, lost, or set free.

Created by Lillian Ransijn and Dylan Smythe, directed by Francesca Montanile Lyons, Good Grief! premiered as Rough and Tumble: Pickled Peaches and Herring in the Cannonball Festival of Philadelphia Fringe in September 2022, and is the culmination of five years of performance research. After a wonderfully meaningful set of performance at LeMondo in Baltimore, Rough & Tumble is looking to remount this work back in Philly.