FREE | Fri. June 28 at 11:30am | onboard KC Streetcar | Abuela is an interactive performance that brings Abuela, a life-sized puppet, to KC Streetcar.
Abuela is an interactive performance that brings Abuela, a life-sized puppet, to KC Streetcar. She is an elderly, indigenous grandmother from the Andes mountains who doesn’t speak but communicates with her eyes, her expressions, and her body language. She holds an antique radio that plays her favorite songs in Quechua, her native language. Part foam and latex, and part genuine emotion, Abuela is on a Kansas City adventure and excited to meet new friends. Pedestrians and riders on the streetcar become complicit in her world, as Abuela seeks honest interactions like helping her on and off the streetcar, across the street, or perhaps even a dance partner for an Andean jig!
