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Report by Lehman College student Alexandria Pacheco, after seeing Our Dad is in Atlantis

This play was very different from anything I’ve ever seen before. Usually, when I’ve gone to see shows like Wicked, Young Frankenstein, The Lion King, or Hairspray, they’ve all been produced with the glitz and glam included. Our Dad is in Atlantis was the complete opposite. Not to say that because the show was missing all the flashing lights that I wasn’t entertained all the same.

I took my mother to see this play because she was having a hard time understanding and accepting illegal immigration for more than just an “invasion” of the country. I decided she was the one to accompany me when she was working in her garden and all of a sudden shouted, “I should’ve hired a Mexican to do all this for me!” My grandmother decided to chime in and say, “Ay, no, Debbie. You don’t want those people to know where you live – they might want to break in some time in the future. You don’t know.” During our course in class we’ve learned that illegal immigrants want to stay under the radar and just make some money because they have other problems with the “gringo” police. After telling my family that, they looked at me in a funny way as if I’d become an advocate for illegal immigrants. I wouldn’t go as far as to say that I am, but I’ve come far enough to step out of the box of stereotypes and after watching Our Dad is in Atlantis, my mother’s a bit more sympathetic.

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