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...Marisol...
...When Marisol awakes these days from her bed in the Bronx, she is faced with the aftermath of apocalypse—streets where the homeless are burned, a moon that’s abandoned its orbit and the eerie absence of the world’s guardian angels. She must accept that God is indifferent and dying and that her world is quickly following in his demise...
Marisol’s reality and her plight serve as a reflection of our own, troubled society in Jose Rivera’s socially-charged, surreal play, Marisol. But the play’s overly broad, sweeping ambition and vision of post-apocalyptic society are never fully realized—and ultimately undermine the strengths of last weekend’s staging at the Loeb Experimental Theater and the accomplishments of an otherwise remarkable cast and crew, ably directed by Rebecca R. Kastleman...
...Marisol (Edel Talaid), a young woman living alone in the city, is left behind by her guardian angel (Sara L. Bartel ’06) who decides to lead the celestial battle against a sick, senile God. Though her departure leaves Marisol more vulnerable and alone in her dangerous surroundings, the angel offers hope through the possibility of God’s defeat and a new beginning on Earth...
...MARISOL. Puerto Rican-born American playwright Jose Rivera’s 1993 Obie-Award winning play comes to the Loeb Experimental Theatre this weekend, under the direction of Rebecca R. Kastleman ’05. In Rivera’s beautiful, surrealistic play, the young woman Marisol confronts the dejection and dereliction of New York City’s post-apocalyptic streets, while the city’s guardian angels rebel against a complacent and dying God. Kastleman’s surrealistic production promises to explore the love between friends in the the city’s back alleys...