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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...
This weak characterization, especially of secondary roles, is temporarily forgotten in this production by virtue of the high quality of acting. Kastleman is able to pull emotionally textured performances from all of her actors that highlight the poetry of Rivera??€™s text without sacrificing immediacy or impact...
Given the nature of the role, Talaid excels at creating a very human persona with which the audience can readily identify. But ultimately, again as the result of a 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...
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...
...narrative, Frida works fine. The major events in her extraordinarily interesting life are shown in painstaking detail, from her misadventures as a young and idealistic student to her much-famed visit to New York for Rivera??€™s commission from Nelson Rockefeller. Most of the time, however, these details fly by with little investment, as Taymor attempts grandeur but ends up with only a bulging detachment...