Octavio Solis's Books
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Mar.15.2010
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 quinceañera, her fifteenth birthday. Lydia's immediate...
Jan.01.2009
Review How can love be so wrong? a young widow cries out in Octavio Solis' GIBRALTAR. The question reverberates throughout Solis' lyrically dense, passionate and probing drama.... As separate but intriguingly interlinked stories unfold, and their narrators battle over their details, Solis turns one woman's numbing depression into a dynamic wrestle with the fundamentals of love and...
About Octavio
Octavio Solis is a playwright and director living in San Francisco. His works Ghosts of the River, Quixote, Lydia, June in a Box, Lethe, Marfa Lights, Gibraltar, The Ballad of Pancho and Lucy, The 7 Visions of Encarnación, Bethlehem, Dreamlandia, El Otro, Man...
Connections
Causes Octavio Solis Supports
The United Way
Octavio’s Favorite Books
So many. Where do I begin?
The Iliad. The Odyssey. The Aeneid. The Divine Comedy. Shakespeare. Moby Dick. Light in August.
The poetry of Sharon Olds. And Jean...