COMING SOON: LUNCH WITH SONIA
March 7-8, 2024
Thur-Fri at 7PM
Festival International de Casteliers
Theatre Aux Ecuries
Montreal, Quebec H2E 2K7
Tickets: $40/$30/$20
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Written & Co-Directed by Federico Restrepo & Denise Greber
Choreography, Light, Set & Puppet Design: Federico Restrepo
Sound Design & Composition: Leonie Bell
Costume Design: Becky Hubbert
Tech Director / Production Manager: Juan Merchan
Featuring: Marina Celander, Aaron Haskell, Hope Kroog, Monica Lerch, Jorge Ariel Blanco Muñoz, and Federico Restrepo; Voice of Sonia: Luz Beatriz Pizano
Lunch with Sonia is a dance puppet theatre piece, inspired by Restrepo’s true-life experience with his Aunt Sonia, who decided to end her life with dignity after a long illness at the age of 72. The show uses puppets, live actors, music, video and physical theatre to deal with the themes of life, love, and loss.
Conversations about assisted dying bring up controversial and emotionally fraught issues: morality, religion, politics, and faith. With this piece, Loco7 hopes to acknowledge the incredible intimacy and the very personal nature of dying as the final event of living a self-actualized, individual human life and to move the dialogue from the philosophical arena to the realm of personal experience and stories related to the topic of Death with Dignity.
“…Lunch with Sonia, an achingly beautiful entry in La MaMa’s bi-annual Puppet Festival…made me feel intensely grateful that La MaMa is once again lending its stages to live performance that is strange, daring, gorgeous and far from the mainstream.”
—Laura Collins-Hughes, The New York Times
“First Up in La MaMa’s Return: Strange, Enchanting Puppetry”
Laura Collins-Hughes, The New York Times
“La MaMa Puppet Festival 2021: Lunch with Sonia”
Jonathan Mandell, New York Theater
“10 New Contemporary Puppet Works to Debut at LA MAMA PUPPET SERIES”
Chloe Rabinowitz, Broadway World
KIDS PUPPET PERFORMANCE
The Adventures of Seucy and Boto
The Adventures of Seucy and Boto in the Amazon Jungle is a series of family friendly events adapted to retell mythological stories from the Amazon Jungle, showing us how to protect the plants and animals of the rainforest from harm and exploitation and inspiring us to respect and care for the mighty jungle so it will continue sharing its wonders with us, along with the value of friendship.
Past versions have featured artists: Braulio Basilio, Zulivet Diaz, Ale Fips, Aaron Haskell, Rebecca Hidalgo, Chris Ignacio, Soukeina El Isihani, Seira Kiyono-Patoonsittichai, Hope Kroog, Teresa Lundgren, Leah Ogawa, Katie Leffen, Allison Piccone, Jose Rivera Jr., Giacomo Roccino, Kiku Sakai, Quimen Sanchez, Jeanne Lauren Smith, Amanda Tay, Ursula Tinoco, Matt Ting, Emily Vick-Agnew, Fleur Voorn, & J’Royce Walton
This performance will take place in 2024, with exact dates coming soon.
The Battery Show Box - July 7, 2024
Playscape Partners invites parents and friends to support dynamic and exciting arts and science experiential learning programs for children ages Pre K to 8th Grade.
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La MaMa - October 2024
Tickets: TBD
Roxbury Arts Center
5025 Vega Mountain Road
Roxbury, NY 12474
Tickets: TBD
ON DEMAND: LUNCH WITH SONIA
Loco7 Dance Puppet Theatre Company will share a live recored performance from their work, Lunch With Sonia, which was presented in the Fall at La MaMa.
Lunch with Sonia is a dance puppet theatre piece inspired by Restrepo’s true-life experience with his Aunt Sonia, a woman who decided to end her life with dignity after a long illness at the age of 72. The show uses puppets, live actors, music, video, and physical theatre to deal with the themes of life, love, and loss.
With this piece, Loco7 hopes to acknowledge the incredible intimacy and very personal nature of dying as the final event of living a self-actualized, individual human life, and to move the dialogue from the philosophical arena to the realm of personal experience and stories related to the topic of Death with Dignity.