Don Quixote Takes New York
Loco7 reimagines this classic text with puppets, dance, and music to show the audience that no dream is too impossible to obtain and, with hope and heart, you can conquer fear.
Don Quixote and his friend Sancho Panza travel the five boroughs of New York City on a quest to save the world from evil forces and protect Lady Liberty. The audience follows Don Quixote as he explores New York City in his quest for love, honor, liberty, and justice for all.
COMING SOON: LUNCH WITH SONIA
Italy Tour
October 2025
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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
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
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.