...Part 2. In SANTOS & SANTOS, Octavio Solis takes us on this journey - sometimes warm, loving, sensual journey, sometimes funny , sometimes brutal – smoothly merging dramatized interactions with the returning son’s comments on the action while it happens and moments when he breaks in the fourth wall to tell us his story. Cultural chasms heighten the crisis between Mexican-Americans who have melted well into American society vs. family members who could not or would not. Premiered in 1990s, one brother confronted with family corruption provides Texas-style challenges that children of high...
...Part 2. In SANTOS & SANTOS, Octavio Solis takes us on this journey - sometimes warm, loving, sensual journey, sometimes funny , sometimes brutal – smoothly merging dramatized interactions with the returning son’s comments on the action while it happens and moments when he breaks in the fourth wall to tell us his story. Cultural chasms heighten the crisis between Mexican-Americans who have melted well into American society vs. family members who could not or would not. Premiered in 1990s, one brother confronted with family corruption provides Texas-style challenges that children of high placed politicians/media moguls face today.