“Watching Frida...A Self Portrait requires imagination on the part of the audience, but it is a mechanism that engages at both emotional and intellectual levels. Severo, who tells us she was born in Brazil, cites a Portuguese word, "saudade," not easily defined in English or Spanish. She says it means "the deepest longing for emotion, for someone or something that is now gone, but might return in the distant future." That's a deeply felt undercurrent running through this production.”