←Recommendations of Paletas de Coco or, The Letter Unspoken or, The Christmas Eve Play

This is a deeply personal, incredibly moving show -- thank you, Franky for sharing it with the world. It's a peek behind the curtain, a life story, a confession. Gonzalez has given the world a gift here.

This play is tour de force of dramatized self-revelation. Brutally honest, achingly tender, heartbreakingly sweet, and always triumphant - PALETAS DE COCO OR, THE LETTER UNSPOKEN OR, THE CHRISTMAS EVE PLAY follows our narrator as he digs deep into feelings and memory so he can become the loving father he never had.

This play is tour de force of dramatized self-revelation. Brutally honest, achingly tender, heartbreakingly sweet, and always triumphant - PALETAS DE COCO OR, THE LETTER UNSPOKEN OR, THE CHRISTMAS EVE PLAY follows our narrator as he digs deep into feelings and memory so he can become the loving father he never had.

A deeply moving journey through Gonzalez's life experience that depicts healing from trauma in an honest, direct, and caring manner. A necessary reckoning for fathers everywhere.

A gorgeous, deeply moving and powerful play.

A moving and honest journey through life that pours authenticity and heart. Well done.

Paletas de Coco or, The Letter Unspoken or, The Christmas Eve Play by Franky Gonzalez was a finalist for NNPN's 2020 National Showcase of New Plays.

Paletas de Coco is a powerfuI story with intense vulnerability, rawness, and heart. It catapults you along with the protagonist to immerse yourself in his journey. Will he break with the cycle of fathers before him to choose himself and his son? Will he fall victim to intergenerational conflicts he may not fully realize are within him too? Will this be a Christmas Eve like no other?

A wonderfully immersive, intimate, inventive, daring and heartbreaking play, so deserving of all its accolades and more. I would love to see this performed.

"We take risks for the art and we lose shit we love telling our truth." - Franky Gonzalez

Gonzalez takes risks and tells the truth in this (almost) one-man play. And it is electrifying. He shows his flaws and strengths as they relate to experiences with his father and his son. You will believe in and feel such empathy for Franky Gonzalez.