'Lydia' is turbulent portrait of family dysfunction

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'Lydia' is turbulent portrait of family dysfunction
"Lydia," a new play by Octavio Solis that premiered last year at the Denver Center Theatre Company, is making its East Coast debut at Yale Repertory Theatre in New Haven.Solis, a native of El Paso, Texas, has drawn from his Spanish roots and childhood experiences in that border town to tell the story of a dysfunctional Mexican-American family locked in a life of disappointments.