“I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter” interview Super Sonido

I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter, has been years in the making. An adaptation of Erika L. Sanchez’s award-winning novel will bring the play to “the round” allowing audiences the chance to really engage with Julia, the main character’s vibrant life. a Chicago high schooler, Julia is definitely not your perfect Mexican daughter. That’s her older sister Olga’s role. But everything in Júlia’s life weighs heavier after Olga dies in a tragic accident, leaving Júlia to manage her family’s grief and unravel the secret truth — that her sister may not have been so perfect after all.

As she struggles with the all-too-real challenges of coming of age in Chicago and the sense that she’s failing to live up to her family’s expectations, Júlia barely clings to her dream of becoming a writer and is left questioning what she really knows about anything.

I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter is a love story to young Latinas who, in trying to find the truth about the people and the world around them, end up finding themselves. It runs now through November 3 at the Kilstrom Theatre.

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