SOLE SURVIVORS OPENS IN
ALBUQUERQUE, NM JULY 2009!

New for the summer, Sole Survivors is proud to announce its return to its home state of New Mexico opening Thursday, July 16th at North 4th Theatre in Albuquerque, NM with Mariachi Sonidos del Monte of Albuquerque, NM.

REVIEWS|INTERVIEWS|PREVIEWS

PREVIEWS IN THE ALBUQUERQUE JOURNAL AND THE SANTA FE NEW MEXICAN. INTERVIEWS ON KUNM.ORG

AMERICAN THEATRE MAGAZINE JULY/AUGUST 2009 ISSUE

Please click on the link to view PDF: Mariachi Monologues

“SOLE SURVIVORS” IMPRESSES
Review by Suzana Bowling
The Examiner 6/04/09

Added to this column is a review I for a play I saw last night. With only five performances left, I had to sneak it in here and alert you to a memorable evening of theatre.

The play is a one-women show called “Sole Survivors” written and performed by Michelle. Stepping into the shoes of immigrants, who long for the "American Dream," she adds a face of humanity to a controversial issue.

Ms. Vest shows the river of desperation, these men and women will conspire to ... for freedom. This is human need, want and frailty all shown by one commanding, vulnerable and multi-dimensional woman.

The acting here is on par with what Broadway should be at it's best and the writing delves into a no holds bare of emotion, that will leave you feeling like the souls before you. In between Flor de Toloache, a mariachi
Band, lures you into the next set of lives that will haunt you. It is interesting to note that the “Sole Survivors” are named after Woody Guthrie's song that detailed the 1948 crash of a plane transporting illegal immigrants from California back to Mexico.

Link: http://www.examiner.com/

Electronic Link Journey (ELJ)
by Laurie Lawson 6/07/09

For those of you who think you have the immigration problem all figured out, Michelle has a few things of which she’d like you to be aware.

In her “SOLE SURVIVORS” Journey Across Borders, she holds a glaring and unrelenting light up to the reality of just what people are willing to do
to have a shot at the American Dream.

There’s the American woman who exploits the situation but she does it
compassionately, the tortured San Salvadorian who sacrifices his family
to build a better life, the young Mexican woman who uses sex to distract from the pain of not being with her son, and the tough hombre who thinks he has the secret of success mastered until one fateful moment.

These are not a pretty tales.

Vest does an impressive job of telling them using a touch of disbelief on the American’s part and a poignant combination of cynicism, anguish, determination and desperate hope for the immigrants.

She becomes each character with convincing conviction.

“SOLE SURVIVORS” Journey Across Borders dares to give you another perspective of the “immigration problem,” and it does so amazingly well.

Challenge your beliefs and walk in the immigrants’ shoes for one brief hour with Michelle.

Link: http://www.eljnyc.com/Offbway.html

PLAYBILL NEWS:
Sole Survivors; Journey Across Borders
Giving Voice to Immigrants, Will Play NYC and NM