October 24 - 27, 2024
Thursday @ 7:30 pm
Friday @ 7:30 pm
Saturday @ 5:00 pm
Sunday @ 4:00 pm

The Club + Community Arts Space
74 East 4th Street, New York, NY 10003

Tickets: 
General Admission: $30
Students/Seniors: $25
First 10 tickets are $10 (limit 2 per person)

For Tickets: CLICK HERE

Created & Directed by Federico Restrepo & Denise Greber

Choreography & Puppet Design: Federico Restrepo
Original Music Composed by:  Juan Sebastian Monsalve
Performed by: Federico Restrepo with Katherine De La Cruz, Ursula Tinoco & Juan Pablo Toro

Cause and Effect, is a dance puppet experience that blends rod puppets, marionettes, dance, acrobatics, and video. This project explores themes linked to the natural environment, aiming to shed light on the interconnectedness between humans and animals while showcasing the beauty and fragility of our shared world. The aim is to evoke conceptual images that investigate human displacement and the conservation of endangered animal species. Through our work, we seek to highlight the intricate relationship between the natural environment and its impact on the animal kingdom and human condition.

Cause and Effect, like other productions by Loco7, delves into the realm of the spectator's psyche without relying on explicit text narratives. Instead, this visual performance employs movement and visual elements to convey the unspoken emotions of distress and detachment.  

November 21-24, 2024
November 21 @ 8pm
November 22 @ 8pm
November 23 @ 3pm
November 23 @ 8pm
November 24 @ 4pm

Baltimore Theatre Project
45 West Preston Street
Baltimore, MD 21201

Tickets: 
General Admission: $25
Seniors/Artists/Military: $20
Students: $15
For Tickets: CLICK HERE

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