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EDINBURGH FRINGE 2023
MEMENTO MORBITCHES! 
by Leoni Amandin


14th - 19th August 2023
10:30am
Paradise in The Vault (Venue 29)

about lEoni 
Leoni studied European Theatre Arts at Rose Bruford College and clowning at Accademia Teatro Dimitri. Her training focused specifically on devised theatre. Her work enchants with arts & crafts inspired sets using recycled materials, gentle humour and unexpected puppetry.

After the death of multiple close relatives she published a zine about grief and then became interested in end of life planning advocacy.
 
Leoni is currently also appearing in Tomb Raider The LIVE Experience in London, HSBC commercial ControlThe Really Useless Cabaret and a short film by Australian director Hannah Dougherty called Baby You Can Always Come Home.

 
Previously she was awarded Rising Star at the Academy Award and BAFTA nominating Rhode Island International Film Festival for playing Sandrine in Sandrine, also appeared as Victor Victoria in Youth by BAFTA-winning director Paolo Sorrentino starring Sir Michael Caine, Harvey Keitel, Jane Fonda, Rachel Weisz and Paul Dano.

about ThSHow 
 This comedic, interactive piece allows audiences to step into a world where talking about the end of life isn’t a taboo anymore. 

Expect ridiculous deathly shower thoughts, a battle between the simple biology and the complex poetry of death, an introduction to the fascinating funeral industry history and current developments, some end of life planning arts and crafts, and a look around the world for ways to do dying better.
 
Memento Mori Bitches’s development and delivery was generously supported by end of life doula Sabrina Singh, funeral celebrant Carole Pluckrose, Boathouse Creative Studios and Arka Funerals.
 
“I walked into this thinking I would leave in tears of sadness but there I was surrounded by joy.” - Anoushay Dar, Wandsworth Arts Fringe Young Reviewer

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