photo by Austin Trevett
"The soldier and the girl,
the girl and the soldier. Of such are many plays and movies made
to warm the heart over many years.... A SILENT THUNDER, the quite
heartwarming play.... The girl works in a tailor shop in Okinawa,
which is where the play is set in 1966, during the Vietnam
War.... The Marine is Corporal Joe Santana, a Puerto Rican American
orphan."
Jerry Tallmer, New York Post
"This sweet tale by
playwright Eduardo Iván López becomes so much more than the
tried-and-true serviceman's one-night-stand becoming true love.
His characters are original because they rebel from the
identities fate has dealt them and are consciously trying to
become the people they desire to be. The script becomes universal
because Mr. Lopez uses war effectively as a symbol of personal
disillusionment and social injustice. He makes love between these
two strikingly different characters seem like the most natural
thing in the world."
Kris Oser, New York Law
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