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Two people on a dimly lit stage. One person is sitting on a wooden stool towards the right of the stage. They are facing the left, wearing a red shawl, black pants, and black shoes. A laptop is positioned on their lap as they type. The second person is behind a large puppet that rests on a blue chair to the back left of the stage. The puppet resembles an older woman, wearing a pink dress, pink shoes, and glasses. Her hair is gray and pulled back, and an oxygen machine is next to the chair, the tubes fitted around her ears and up her nose. In the background to the right is a table with a vase of red flowers, mostly in shadow.

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Image | 2018

Lunch with Sonia Still 3

Federico Restrepo

We created, workshopped and then performed this piece between 2018 and 2021. 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.

Date

January 1, 2018

Rights Statement

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/

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