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Sonia Flew

By Melinda Lopez
Directed by Jessica Thebus
Featuring ensemble member Alan Wilder with Sandra Delgado, Sandra Marquez, Andrew Perez, Vilma Silva and Jeff Still

In the Downstairs Theatre
Thu. November 30, 2006 — Sun. February 4, 2007

An exploration of how world events shape our families and how families shape our lives, through the eyes of a Jewish-Latino family in Minnesota.

Articles

  • Wonder Woman

    by Jessica Thebus & Melinda Lopez

    Associate Artist and director Jessica Thebus talks parenting and playwriting with Sonia Flew author Melinda Lopez. ...more

  • Continuing the Conversation

    by Oscar B. Pichardo, Hugo Chaviano and Elly Vilano Chovel

    Three audience members from Sonia Flew relate their own stories of leaving Cuba for the United States. ...more

  • Pedro Pan

    by Peter Davis

    The CIA, Castro, and a controversial campaign: how the 14,000 real-life Sonia’s were flown to American “safety”. ...more

  • Recipe for 7-Up Salad

    Check out the recipe for this festive holiday dish featured in Melinda Lopez's Sonia Flew. ...more

  • Letter from the Artistic Director on Sonia Flew

    by Martha Lavey

    Artistic Director Martha Lavey discusses the theme of dislocation in Melinda Lopez's Sonia Flew. ...more

reviews

On Jessica Thebus
"The excellent director, Jessica Thebus, has cast the production ideally...they are compelling in their passions, their sense of loss and their brief bursts of hope."
-Chicago Sun-Times on Intimate Apparel

"A skillful work, deftly directed by Jessica Thebus...under whose supervison, a marvelously accomplished cast create whole, real, and often flawed, characters...people we can love and hate, and everything in between."
-Windy City Times on Intimate Apparel

"The Steppenwolf production is without flaw, under Jessica Theubs's understated but emotionally pinpoint directing."
-Copley News on Intimate Apparel