Run Time: 80 Minutes

Concept/Performance/Video: Elly Jarvis

Concept/Dramaturgy/Direction: Lilli Strakerjahn

Premiere: Hin und Weg Festival Litschau 2021

Wiederaufnahmen: Berliner Ring Theater 05.22 , 05.23 (Direction: Maria Sendlhofer)

Hin und Weg Festival 08.22

das LOT Wien 08.22

An autobiographic performance about me and my gay grandpa

The year 2015: I have my coming out as queer in Berlin and my Grandpa Dix does too, in his home in Michigan. Obviously we didn’t plan this. I am 23, he is 92. While my coming out isn’t much of a surprise, and nobody really seems to care, his is. To me it was a sign of magic - proving life to be much more interesting and surprising than I had originally thought.

Seven years and 300 e-mails later, our conversation is ongoing. We are crafting worlds for each other, validating existence, and posing questions. It’s an organic process, a time-snatch of a relationship not yet finished.

This is a family story. It’s a story about two people trying to connect, two former strangers, acting like teenagers.

It’s an interesting conversation. It’s totally subjective. It doesn’t mean much, but it means the world.

"DEAR ELLY - WHERE DO I FIT? IF ANY OF THEM? HOW ABOUT YOU? LOVE, GRANDPA”