Enjoy Lydia Conceived By Octavio Solis Contained In Copy

This amazing play is everything an American classic needs to be, Heartrending, inspiring, lushly human down to the quick of its fingertips, Look Homeward, Angel now has a sibling, A mesmerizing and magical look into a shared family trauma excellently and vividly written, The whole thing feels apocalyptic in emotional scale, An interesting perspective and representation of disability, as well as including bilingualism and the humanity in immigration, What a beautiful, heartbreaking, universeencompassing play, I'm astonished at the number of themes and questions Solis brings so elegantly and eloquently into this relatively short workthe varied experiences of Mexican immigrants to the U.
S. "illegal," first generation, here by desire, here because of someone else's dreams, etc, " violence, love and understanding/misunderstanding among family members the meaning of sex and love, the power of each independently and when they merge or collide the importance of voice, what it means when one can or can't speak, when one can or can't be understood and who can or can't understand one other the role of language, and how that changes depending upon when and how it can be shared, who has fluency, who controls when which languages are used and ultimately what does it mean to be alive and what are the limitations and affordances of our corporeal and mental selves.
Weird, weird, weird contemporary dysfunctional immigrant family play, I read this for a course I'm taking, I like that the play is set in El Paso and that it is written by a local author, I'm not a big fan of the sexual themes, but I think that the play in of itself is constructed pretty well overall, It develops and the characters do too, there are many obstacles they all face and they are all interconnected with one another, I like some of the ideas, but I can't say this is my favorite play and I'm not sure I'll ever read it again, but it was interesting.
Dysfunctional family with a lot of unnecessary incest “Lydia” is disturbing and enthralling, a read youll want to put down but cant, Lydia questions the

trappings of the American Dream and demonstrates what happens when family enmeshment, especially in the hispanic community, is left to run rampant.
Drama /m,f Set in thes 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 quinceaera, her fifteenth birthday.
Lydia's immediate and seemingly miraculous bond with the girl sets the entire family on a mysterious and shocking journey of discovery, Lyd.