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Search Party by Rene Solivan

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Meet the motley cast of family members: Vinita, the restless mother who has spent her life abandoning her family to pursue her dream of being in the movies; Luis, the son who can't hold down a job but can talk to dead people; his sister Ivonne who-after five marriages to rich men-has nothing to show for it but money and a son who can't stand her; their sister Olivia, the writer struggling to piece together the family's history, never sure if she's writing a memoir or not; as well as an extended family dealing with their own inadequacies and disappointments. Search Party emerges as a vibrant portrait of a Puerto Rican family that renders the intricate workings of the heart.

Meet the motley cast of family members: Vinita, the restless mother who has spent her life abandoning her family to pursue her dream of being in the movies; Luis, the son who can't hold down a job but can talk to dead people; his sister Ivonne who-after five marriages to rich men-has nothing to show for it but money and a son who can't stand her; their sister Olivia, the writer struggling to piece together the family's history, never sure if she's writing a memoir or not; as well as an extended family dealing with their own inadequacies and disappointments. Search Party emerges as a vibrant portrait of a Puerto Rican family that renders the intricate workings of the heart.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
René Solivan's [December 15,1962 - July 13, 2023] fiction, poetry, drama and non-fiction have been published in magazines, literary journals and anthologies. Solivan is the winner of the Northridge Review Fiction Award, MetLife National Playwriting Award, and a Latino Theatre Initiative Emerging Artist Commission from the Mark Taper Forum (1977 Tony Award, Outstanding Regional Theatre) where Solivan was a playwriting fellow. The Taper produced a workshop of Solivan's play Miss Lebron and Her Escorts which was then developed at Off-Broadway's Obie award-winning Spanish Repertory Theatre starring NCIS star Cote de Pablo in the title role. René was nominated by Seattle Repertory Theatre (1990 Tony Award, Outstanding Regional Theatre) for the Mentor Project at the Cherry Lane Theatre in NYC. Solivan's play Gods & Thieves was presented at Geva Theatre; other plays have been seen on both coasts including his first play Madre which had its world premiere at Theatre/Theater in Hollywood where the Los Angeles Times hailed it as "an absorbing, compelling tour-de-force."