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...Marisol Pineda...
...inability to bring cohesion to the play doesn’t derive so much from a lack of talent or emotional investment—both of which she in fact clearly demonstrates—but rather to the Herculean task set forth by Rivera for his protagonist. Marisol must unify, in addition to her own fractured sense of the world, all of the play’s disparate characters in the face of a dying God, absentee angels, isolation and all the world’s other woes. She is additionally charged with the equally daunting task of bringing this...
Scottie S. Thompson ’05 also offers a gem of a performance as Marisol’s co-worker and friend June. Thompson shows off her comedic flair in June’s first scene with Marisol with ease, bringing to life June’s understated vulnerability, her fear of isolation, and the multi-layered sentiments she holds towards her inexplicable, external world...
...Rivera’s flawed text, the audience is unable to identify with Marisol’s plight. Despite Thompson’s able portrayal of June, for example, we never appreciate, beyond a symbolic level, the deep emotional connection between the two, or the desperation with which Marisol seeks her out when she is missing—a search that defines the second act and leads to an ambiguous and unsatisfying resolution in the finale...
With little exception, the performances and production elements of Kastleman’s Marisol are outstanding achievements that bring humor, depth and passion to an otherwise confusing show and offer brilliant snapshots of Rivera’s oftentimes obscured, post-apocalyptic vision...