Octavio Solis

thumb|Octavio Solis in 2019 Octavio Solis (born 1958) is an American playwright and director. Quotes …The principal feature of the retablos I have seen and collected is the picture, the diorama, if you will, of someone’s earthly crisis, at which the divine is also present in the figure of a particular saint or Holy Virgin. This simple crudely drawn and painted image is wrought with drama, depicting a moment of powerful tension, pain, and transcendence. I took my cues from these images, and determined to use them as the motif for the moments in my life that defined me… On being influenced by retablos in “An Interview with Octavio Solis” (Welcome to Literary Ashland; 2019 Jun 24) For someone born in the US but whose parents hail from Mexico, there is always a disconnect that happens between the present culture and the one before. Sometimes, it is a flimsy synapse, and sometimes the disconnect can be a chasm… On having Mexican-born parents in “An Interview with Octavio Solis” (Welcome to Literary Ashland; 2019 Jun 24) …I learned to violate the rules of time and space—that they can be protracted, or that an entire war can happen in two or three lines of dialogue. I learned from movie montage, how to use language as montage. And for the scene of the judge’s assassination, I learned a lot from Julius Caesar… On learning how language is implemented in different works in “Octavio Solis’s Journey to ‘Mother Road’” (American Theatre; Sept 2019) I’m not a poet, but I do like heightened language that can exist in the theatre. Many plays are sounding more naturalistic these days, more like TV. I still take my cues from Shakespeare. I would rather have the story exist more in the audience’s heads than on a screen. On avoiding the label of magical realism in “Octavio Solis’s Journey to ‘Mother Road’” (American Theatre; Sept 2019) External links Category:Hispanic Americans Category:Playwrights from the United States Category:Film directors from the United States Category:1958 births Category:Living people Category:People from El Paso Category:Mexican Americans