Sonia Flew
by Melinda Lopez

Name: Sonia Flew
Brand: Melinda Lopez
SKU: 9780822230205
Rating: 3.5 (11 reviews)

Sonia Flew Book Cover — Sonia Flew Cover

Highlights

Female

Male

90 mins Present Day Role(s) for Latine Actor(s) Unit Set/Multiple Settings Period Costumes

Synopsis

When Sonia learns of her son’s decision to leave college, enlist in the military and fight against terror in Afghanistan in the weeks following 9/11, memories of her own childhood overwhelm her.

She struggles to reconcile being forced as a young girl to leave Cuba at the dawn of Fidel Castro’s rule with her own responsibilities as a mother facing uncertainty.

Sonia must find a way to come to terms with her past, her lost parents, her own children and her adopted country – or risk losing everything that she loves.

Set between post-revolutionary Cuba and post-9/11 America, Sonia Flew telescopes the large cultural and political forces of a historic moment to examine their impact on the intimate lives of ordinary men and women.

What do we owe our parents?

Can we forgive the past?

This poetic and urgent play bridges time and culture in a drama about the cost of forgiveness.

Press Reviews

"Sonia Flew is a play for our age."
— Boston Globe

"Sonia Flew is compelling…Lopez draws tragicomic portraits of loving but chafing family interactions.” – WBUR“An engaging new play about family, flight, and forgiveness…What makes Sonia Flew so moving is [its] feisty portrayal of family life, whether bathed in the sunlight and fear of early Castro Cuba or tucked into a bicultural jumble of tchotchkes and adamancy in the post-September 11 Midwest…Sonia flies.” – Boston Phoenix”Melinda Lopez’s moving and smartly structured play…is an examination of the fragility of a reality built on denial and a troubled past that defies easy reconciliation with the present…Lopez knows the precise and painful calibrations of a soul in torment about a painful past. Sonia Flew builds to an emotional catharsis and long-delayed closure that are undeniably moving."
— Orange County Register

Characters

Character	Gender	Age	Description
SONIA 50s, mother, and	female	50s	50s, mother, and
MARTA , 60s, housekeeper	—	60s	, 60s, housekeeper
DANIEL 50s, father, and	male	50s	50s, father, and
TITO , neighbor	—	—	, neighbor
ZAK 19, son, and	male	—	19, son, and
JOSE , 19, young man	male	—	, 19, young man
JEN 17, daughter, and	female	—	17, daughter, and
YOUNG SONIA , 15, daughter	female	—	, 15, daughter
SAM 70s, grandfather, and	—	70s	70s, grandfather, and
ORFEO , 50s, father	male	50s	, 50s, father
NINA 28, soldier, and	—	—	28, soldier, and
PILAR , 35, mother	female	—	, 35, mother