Lydia
by Alchemy Theatre Company
Sep. 12 - Sep. 21, 2025
“In our souls, we are as eloquent as any poet in the world.”
Set in El Paso, Texas during the Vietnam War, Octavio Solis’s LYDIA is an intense, lyrical, and magical play that explores the idea of the “American dream.” The Mexican-American Flores family welcomes Lydia, an undocumented maid, into their home to care for their daughter Ceci, who was tragically disabled in a car accident on the eve of her quinceañera.
An orphan from Mexico, Lydia has come to the U.S. illegally to start a new life, but it is quickly understood that she is no normal woman. Her immediate and seemingly miraculous bond with Ceci sets the entire family on a mysterious and shocking journey of discovery.
LYDIA is an unflinching and deeply emotional portrait of a Mexican immigrant family caught in a web of dark secrets. Solis plunges you into the turmoil of interconnected lives — and leaves you thrilled, stunned and moved.
Lydia
by Octavio Solís
Alchemy Theatre Company
somewhere in Austin
to be announced
Austin, TX, 78700
Dates approximate. Announced for fall, 2025. (Date of information: December 5, 2024)
