...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.

Part 1. What if the son or daughter of a corrupt family businesses in today’s news is also a high integrity lawyer? In his drama SANTOS& SANTOS, Octavio Solis plunges us into a powerful sometimes shocking story of Mike, who left home to build successful legal career, returns home to use his skills to help family turn his late father’s business into a profitable operation. When Mike’s brothers, friends joyfully share their illegal revenue-producing strategies, Mike must choose between the law, the loved ones he left behind – and, unexpectedly, hidden corruption of people above them all..

Like Solis' other plays, magical realism and heightened language are woven beautifully into the script. The more impressive feat is how he takes a real event and makes it feel like a condensed Latinx season of Breaking Bad for the stage.