Sonata Escondida Playbill

Sonota Escondida shows us the complexities of love and healing: its need for bravery, listening, and wiliness to reach for each other. As we live this third pandemic winter, we have all experienced times of isolation of multiple kinds. It may feel sometimes that we have to endure all our struggles alone. The larger, systemic issues (climate change, white supremacy, corporate greed, etc.) that we are up against can feel insurmountable those days. Manuel’s story reminds us that what we need to heal and grow is each other. Admitting the need for each other is hard to express, it contradicts the American myths (or maybe obsession) of being “self-made” or “pulled up by the bootstraps”. To admit we need each other is simultaneously a declaration of bravery and vulnerability. To admit we need each other is an act of love. It is public acts of love that brings us thus far—essential workers picking our food, crafters making masks, healthcare workers showing up daily, delivery workers bringing food and medicine to those homebound, mutual aid communities responding to gaps in our systems, and so many more people and acts of love. We are not out of this yet; we are still processing our grief while trying to heal. We are not alone. May we continue to remember that we need each other more, not less. Let’s reach for each other.