FLOORSHOW: DONA SOL AND HER TRAINED DOG
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Sanchez’s mildly surreal, sometimes humorous, sometimes incredibly angry one-act one-woman Fatty Tissue reveals how the protagonist’s obsession with food–so strong she believes her refrigerator is alive and intentionally tempting her–is a way of getting back at her violent father. Though sections of Fatty Tissue seemed too long and the woman’s anger was at times so overpowering it was hard to take, the focus of the work never wavered.
Floorshow is significantly more ambitious. In its 90 minutes it attempts to deal with a whole family’s worth of problems–and not just any family but a broken family headed by a prostitute, Dona Sol, who is forced to practice her trade at home within earshot of her young, impressionable children, one of whom has been severely handicapped since birth.
He begins with a series of questions meant to echo puzzled audience reactions: “What does this mean? Why did you do that? Where did you get this idea? That doesn’t make sense!” He ends with advice on how to get through the evening: “Don’t try so hard to figure it out! We’ve had a good time putting it together. We hope you have a good time watching, hearing, and feeling it!”
