BFF 2021 presents Liesel Hlista’s PostPardon Me

Santa Monica Playhouse has been a cultural treasure in the seaside community for 61 years. Now, the Playhouse is giving love back with its Sixth Annual Binge Free Festival (BFF), a full month of free performances, workshops, readings, music and poetry in Santa Monica’s ONLY fringe festival.  What’s on today?

“PostPardon Me” follows a new mom, Liesel, through her surprising postpartum journey deep into the trenches of toddlerhood, given the privilege of raising a tiny human, with less required testing than she got at the DMV.  While thrown a few curveballs along the way, Liesel writes her own manual that can help her brave the storm of trying to raise a child, maintain her marriage and attempt not to be a complete hot mess on the daily.

With brutal honesty, hilarity and a bit of song, “PostPardon Me” breaks down the taboos of being a new mommy and tells it like it is. This sh!t is cray, like literal sh!t...so much sh!t. Through so many diapers and so few showers, Liesel Hlista is out to save the world, one vagina at a time.

This 70-minute rollercoaster ride through mommy life, written & performed by Liesel Hlista directed & developed by Jessica Lynn Johnson, is a postpartum journey including fertility struggles and rebirth.

If you feel safer watching the show from the comfort of your own home, here’s the Youtube link for the free live stream https://youtu.be/pRQ8nbdMjas

Join Liesel, director Jessica Lynn Johnson and a host of BFF solo artists past and present for "Flourish in Festivals," a unique virtual interactive Zoom Q&A Saturday, November 13 at 1:00pm PST. To register and receive your Zoom invitation, email Jessica at SoaringSoloArtist@gmail.com - 

Binge Free Festival 2021 is presented through generous grants from the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture, the City of Santa Monica, the Santa Monica Arts Commission, and Playhouse PALS.

Covid safety protocols in effect on the days of performances will be observed.