Marisol

José Rivera’s Obie Award-winning play, Marisol, follows Marisol Perez, a Puerto Rican Everywoman, through a turbulent world all the more harrowing for its connections to our own.

When her guardian Angel deserts her to wage war on a dying God, Marisol is left alone to fend for herself on the streets of New York. As she journeys from the Bronx to Brooklyn, she faces neo-Nazis, spiritual restlessness, a diseased and dying world and the inescapable need to rise up and fight.

A magically realistic work of stark beauty and absurd humor, Rivera’s penetrating vision holds up a twisted mirror to reality, revealing a simultaneously thrilling and dangerous world.

José Rivera is a recipient of two Obie Awards for Playwriting, for Marisol and References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot, and his screenplay for The Motorcycle Diaries was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.