PAST SHOWS
MARISOL by José Rivera
A Nashville Premiere
July 25, 26, 27, 31 and August 1, 2, 3 (8pm, Sundays at 2:30pm)
Belmont’s Black Box Theater 1575 Compton Ave
Directed by Vali Forrister
Starring Misty Lewis, Cynthia Tucker, Fiona Soul, Jessika Malone and Peter Vann.
“Rivera’s play is angry, fearsome, fantastic, and poetically frenzied, without surrendering either its sanity or its mordant sense of humor... It’s a cry from the poet’s heart.”—The Village Voice
In the Obie-award-winning MARISOL, a band of guerrilla angels has decided that God is senile and must be assassinated for the greater good of the universe. Marisol Perez, a copy editor from the Bronx, is abandoned by her guardian angel who has joined the revolution. She must fend for herself in a world where coffee has become extinct, rainwater burns your skin, and people must protect themselves from a government that uses torture as punishment for late credit card payments. Rivera’s apocalyptic tragi-comedy pulses with a nightmarish mix of sensuality, paranoia, religious ecstasy and hope.
Photo Credit: HATCHER AND FELL PHOTOGRAPHY
