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People standing on a lit stage. To the right, a person sits on a stool, wearing black with a yellow shawl wrapped around their shoulders. A large puppet resembling an older woman, wearing a pink dress with her gray hair tied up, stands next to the person on the stool with her hands resting on their shoulders. Three people wearing black stand behind the puppet to control it. Towards the left, a person with their hair tied back wearing a long, pink and blue patterned dress and glasses stands with their arms stretched out, moving as if they were dancing. There is a screen in the background on the left.

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Lunch with Sonia Still 8

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, 1970

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

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