Directed by NWSA theater faculty Jennifer de Castroverde, a dozen college students from the NWSA acting program will bring to the stage Jose Rivera’s apocalyptic two-act play, Marisol. Winner of the 1993 Obie Award, Marisol explores the world of a woman facing the possibility of her own death in a world in chaos and crisis, which seem both terrifying and hopeless. This play brings forth themes of mental illness, spiritual warfare, and a dystopian, disintegration of urban society in America. The play’s poetic realism provides an atmosphere of intense human vulnerability to the existential questions of Theology, sexuality, relationships, and the nature of faith, love, fear, and compassion.
