Painted Ponies is a solo performance honoring the courage and love of a mother
haunted by past mistakes. As she makes peace with her past, she paints a deeply moving
portrait of a woman who tried her best to be human in an inhumane world. Hailed as “raw,
honest, and intricately woven,” Sorsa portrays a mother who is both defeated and defiant – an
unflinching study of loss and hope.

 Painted Ponies is a 75-minute monologue. The woman, Pam, lives alone, has terminal cancer, and is about to drink down her doctor prescribed end of life
cocktail. But before she does, she records herself reading a long letter to her son Michael. He was abducted 24 years prior, and she never saw him again. In the monologue she tells the story of her life, her son's abduction, how she dealt with it, what
happened, and where she is now prior to ending her life. Her story leads her to explore
lifes  bigger questions of chance, choice, fate, guilt, blame, good, evil, and what may
await us in the afterlife. After recording it, she is going to post it on YouTube in the hope
that somehow, someday, it finds its way to him. It's a message in a bottle that she casts
into an ocean of hope, believing that he is still alive, and that eventually, it will wash up
on his doorstep.
Projected Run Time: 75 minutes with no intermission.