Teen Wolf Killed My Grandma: A Memoir
On Whee Puppet Theatre
A fuzzy look at how fiction can make reality a little more bearable. Watch a family through their matriarch's final chapter while also learning way more than you ever needed about MTV's Teen Wolf.
Venue: Open Eye Theatre
Tagged For: Puppetry, Storytelling
Content Warnings: Adult Language, Mental Illness, Suicidal Ideation/Self-Harm, Other Divisive Content
Ages 16 and up
It’s the title.
It’s the name of the theater company.
It’s the fact that it’s puppets.
It’s the fact that it’s Teen Wolf.
(It was a guilty pleasure of mine, and remains so.)
If you want a quick idea how “extra” Teen Wolf is, just observe and listen to a late season version of the opening credits:
If you want a quick idea of how cheesy Teen Wolf is, MTV has an eight minute recap of the first season.
If you want to do a deep dive, there’s a lot of them:
For a quick 10 minute deconstruction of the pilot episode, check out Alex Meyers
For an exhaustive and amusing video thesis on the entire series, Ryan Kearns has you covered (it’s over five hours and yes, I watched all of it, as well as his follow-up half-hour riff on the misbegotten recent reunion movie)
For a pop-culture expert’s dissection of both the series and later that movie, I recommend the Friendly Space Ninja.
For loving series autopsies from a female perspective, I endorse both Jane Mulcahey (part 1 and part 2) and Julia Cudney (both series, and reunion movie)
So, if writer/director/actor Hannah Twitchell is bringing my love of Fringe and Teen Wolf together, I’m sold.
Here's some handy links to this year's Top 10 list and Top 11-20 list, also a full list of all returning favorites to this year's Fringe, plus a link to all the 2024 Minnesota Fringe Festival coverage.
While I have your attention, please VOTE :)
Minnesota is currently in the early voting period
for our Congressional and local primaries (I had the U.S. Senate,
Congress, and the Minneapolis school board on my ballot) - final day to
vote in the primary is Tuesday, August 13th, but you don't have to wait
until Fringe is over, go vote right now :)
Early voting for the Presidential Election itself in Minnesota starts on Friday, September 20th.
We're lucky to have a lot of time to get our voices heard, so cast your
vote, and then make sure everyone you know and love is registered and
gets to the polls to vote. Election Day, your final date to vote, is Tuesday, November 5th.
As a queer playwright and theater maker, I want a government that's compassionate and competent enough to keep us all safe and healthy, keep theaters open and running, and personally, I'd just like to be legal myself and keep the weirdos out of government and out of my personal business (and the things I post on this blog, for instance). We all have our reasons, so let's make sure we get the leaders we need and deserve, and get our friends, family and co-workers to raise their voices, too.
Find where to vote and what's on your ballot (with links to candidate websites) and other resources at the Minnesota Secretary of State's website.
For other resources on how to register, volunteer or donate, locally or nationally, check out Vote Save America.
Vote. Raise your voice. We're not going back.
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