Jose Rivera: we all think magically in our sleep.

From: American Theatre | Date: July 1, 1993| Author: | Copyright information

A profile of Jose Rivera as a dramatist is presented. The playwright's works have been described as 'magic realism' as his dramas frequently border on the mystical, the enchanted and the bizarre. His recent play, 'Marisol,' is cited as an example. 'Marisol,' which is about a woman and her guardian angel, is said to link heaven and earth and, in the process, comes out as a metaphor to the human condition.

In Jose Rivera's play Marisol, a band of guerrilla angels has decided that God is an old, ineffectual buffoon who, for the greater good of the universe, must be assassinated. Angel ...

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