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Solis will share how memory enables acts of love and art while coping with his mother’s Alzheimer’s Syndrome and the fears of inheriting it as well.

To retain the few memories of his childhood, he invents even more to compensate for the blank spaces already there. His memories act as a muse and tool for his work as a playwright. In some respect, writers are liars; they make up stories to get to the truth and embellish upon the facts to learn something deeper about themselves, and they cannibalize their pasts for character, plot, and theme. But for him, a deeper cultural memory persists in calling to a more tribal pre-history, one in which he is a citizen of no nation, but a child of a tumultuous and complicated earth.

View the April dates for "In the Clearing", a play written and directed by Octavio Solis.

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