Octavio Solis

Octavio Solis

Octavio Solis

Octavio Solis

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Editorial:
Lulu Press
Año de edición:
2010
Materia
Ficción moderna y contemporánea
ISBN:
9780578048819
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This volume collects three of US Latino playwright Octavio Solis’ most exciting plays about US-Mexico border relations. With a preface by Douglas Langworthy, this is an essential volume to deepen understanding of not only US Latino and Chicano theatre but American theatre as a whole.

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    A crime saga about the Santos Family Law Practice in El Paso of the 1980’s, loosely based on the Chagra brothers’ killing of Judge John Wood. Drugs, gambling, and trafficking fuel the law office of Santos & Santos, and the brothers are quick to incorporate the younger brother after the death of their father. He questions his relationship to his heritage as he sees his brothers ...
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    Drama / 4m, 3f Set in the 1970s on the Texas border separating the United States and Mexico, Lydia is an intense, lyrical, and magical new play. The Flores family welcomes Lydia, an undocumented maid, into their El Paso home to care for their daughter Ceci, who was tragically disabled in a car accident on the eve of her quincea�era, her fifteenth birthday. Lydia’s immediate and...
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