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'El Otro' reading April 16

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Acclaimed playwright Octavio Solis will visit Fresno State for a staged reading of his play, "El Otro," presented by the College of Arts and Humanities Lecture Series at 7 p.m. on April 16 in the Wahlberg Recital Hall.

The reading will be directed by Theatre Arts professor Terry Miller. Another faculty member, Thomas Whit Ellis, is in the cast, along with students Nancy Aceves, Andriana Cisneros, Tim Hernandez, Roger Martinez, Elliott Montgomery, Karla Alcantara, Chris Coronado, Antonio Leonardo and DeAwna McGinley.

The play tells the story of a young girl caught between her degenerate blood father and a new adoptive father. It mixes vivid action, memories and hallucinations. "El Otro" contains strong language and adult subject matter. According to a review in the San Francisco Examiner, the play is "a provocative exploration of love and its possessive perversions poetic filled with delightfully unexpected turns of plot and phrase."

Solis is a transplanted Texan who lives in San Francisco. His works "Man of the Flesh," "Prospect," "El Paso Blue," "Santos & Santos," "La Posada Mágica," "El Otro," "Dreamlandia" and "The Seven Visions of Encarnacion" have been mounted at theaters from coast to coast including Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the Dallas Theater Center, the Magic Theatre, South Coast Repertory Theatre, the San Diego Repertory Theatre, the San Jose Repertory Theatre, the Venture Theatre in Philadelphia, La Compania de Albuquerque, Teatro Vista in Chicago, El Teatro Campesino and Imua Theatre Company in New York.

He received an NEA 1995-97 Playwriting Fellowship, the Roger L. Stevens award and the Will Glickman Playwright Award from the Kennedy Center. He also was the recipient of the TCG Theatre Artists in Residence Grants in 1998 and 2001, and the 1998 McKnight Fellowship grant from the Playwrights Center in Minneapolis. He is the recent recipient of a grant from the Pew Charitable Trust for a new project with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. He is currently working on a dv film adaptation of his play "Prospect."

For ticket information call the Theatre Arts Department at 8-3987.

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