Willamette Week likes a good "Bolero" too!

One more review of Boleros for the Disenchanted, which continues only through March 3:

“Pure truth is never undignified or trashy,” says the strong and stubborn Flora in act two of this Miracle Theatre production. They’re apt words – though some content tiptoes toward treacle, this emotional family drama is no sleazy soap opera. The script, by Motorcycle Diaries screenwriter José Rivera, begins in 1950s Puerto Rico, where young lovers Flora and Eusebio flirt and court and eventually marry. The second act propels us to 1992, where we find the couple in a cramped Alabama apartment, weathering the hardships of old age. The actors balance the play’s weighty themes – infidelity, illness, immigration – with smart injections of knowing humor and poetic self-awareness. Rivera’s female characters are more fully realized than the men, some of whom are reduced to mere machismo. Luisa Sermol, who plays Flora’s mother in the first act and Flora in the second, is a particular standout in a solid cast. It’s a tall order to leap forward 40 years, but under Antonio Sonera’s sensitive yet spirited direction, this production succeeds. – Rebecca Jacobson, Willamette Week, Feb. 22, 2012