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Professional actress and dancer, Lyena Strelkoff, presents Caterpillar Soup, a searingly honest, irreverently funny, and irresistibly uplifting one-woman show about life, love and sex after spinal cord injury... |
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But it isn't the usual riff: girl nobly triumphs over adversity. This absorbing autobiography shatters all barriers, revealing the intimate story of Strelkoff and her boyfriend, Dean, who together navigate the treacherous, inspiring, and sometimes hilarious road from devastation to recovery. At its heart, Caterpillar Soup is a love story -- gritty, fierce, funny, smart and deliciously romantic.It's about real life and real love, in all their messiness. Presented as a play or lecture, Caterpillar Soup reveals Lyena Strelkoff's two-year odyssey in search of wholeness after being paralyzed, and the ultimate triumph of her spirit. More than entertainment, Caterpillar Soup is nourishment... for the mind, heart and soul. |
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Used by Permission, Elevate Film Festival |
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“Your show deserves to be seen everywhere. Students and staff are STILL coming up to me and raving about you & the show.” – Regina Meister, Writing Center Coordinator, Mount St. Mary's College “I saw your play today for the second time… Your performance is so genuine, so visceral, so heartfelt. It helps people live your experience, so that we get an inkling of what it is like to live with [a spinal cord injury]. I cried the first time, and I cried the second time… You have certainly communicated an incredible sense of meaning and purpose.” – Philip Shapiro, Counseling student, Cal State Northridge “Lyena is amazing in her ability to convey her experience, and very brave at sharing her life with others. I think a play like this is important as service to the community, for people with various disabilities and for the lucky ones who are physically and mentally well, but are enriched by a window to a more complex and difficult way to live one's life.” – Rachel, audience member The Press is Very Good Too... “[Caterpillar Soup] combines… gentle lyricism… with harrowing clinical details… with grace, dry humor and radiant spirituality.” “Defies standard theatrical assessment…” “Strelkoff's vast emotional range… could melt granite." – Los Angeles Times, David C. Nichols "[Caterpillar Soup is] imbued with an understated warmth and humor. [It] never ceases to be compelling" –Daily Variety,Julio Martinez |
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