←Recommendations of Through Andrew's Eyes

This family tells the story of their struggle to take care of a family member they love while communicating their deep frustrations. As the Person is eager to be heard, we experience a strong understanding of Andrew’s world. Like Andrew, the family fights to express pain and remain on track for their hopeful futures. This play wonderfully serves as a invitation for the audience to find their own voice with their own unique words to describe their own feelings about the significance of communication.

This is a tenderly written portrait of Andrew's external and internal self, as well as of the family that is doing their best to reconfigure their relationships with Andrew. Each character is written with nuance and a distinct voice, and each has their own set of potent goals and motivations. Cabrera renders the familial dynamics with deftly placed humor, lightening the mood at times and highlighting some of the more poignant and sobering realizations all of the characters face about their strengths and limitations. Cabrera also makes good use of theatricality to externalize Andrew's internal life. Beautiful!

A powerful and absolutely beautiful portrait of an Autistic young man and the love his family has for him. Outstanding!

Cabrera creates a family in a sympathetic hierarchy -- the younger sister, straining to be responsible, the older brother, who desperately wishes to abdicate his responsibility, the careworn mother, who has no choice but to be overbearing and firm -- all in the service of Andrew, unknowable, even perhaps to himself. Powerfully symbolic with graceful monologues on the indelible yet inconstant effects of memory, this is a truly affecting work on the enduring strength of familial commitment and love.