The Exponential Festival Presents: MEOW!

A noir cabaret, an Americana burlesque, a fading starlet’s last chance at the spotlight: Matthew & Meaghan’s MEOW! revisits the documentary classic Grey Gardens through the eyes of Little Edie’s mysterious city life of the 80s. Hosted by a pair of shape-shifting oracles in 50-inch wigs - lip syncs, looks, and lots of razzmatazz create a send-off for America as we know it.​

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Created & Performed by Matthew Antoci & Meaghan Robichaud

Developed with Gabriella Gonzalez

Guest performances by Gabriella Gonzalez & Suz Murray Sadler

Producer: Ben Natan

Associate Producer: Leigh Honigman

Set Design by Forest Entsminger

Sound Design by Emma Hasselbach

Video Design by Suz Murray Sadler

Costume & Prop Design by Hannah Bird

Graphic Design by June Buck

Promotional Photography by Isabel Ebeid

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Find them: ​@antociantoci @meaghanrobi​​

Special Thanks: Small Boat Productions, The Bechdel Project

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New York-based chanteuses Matthew Antoci and Meaghan Robichaud emcee an evening of desperate glamour. The estate’s been sold, the applause has died, and all’s left is a wannabe starlet in the city of her dreams. Historical baggage collides with queer performance traditions in a series of discontinuous cuts and last-chance grasps for the spotlight. MEOW! is a final farewell to showbiz, to America, to Grey Gardens (and also [secretly] to Meaghan’s deceased transgender cat, Jeffrey Thomas English Muffin Robichaud, to whom the show has been dedicated </3.)

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