cover photograph by Anne Arden McDonald, cover design by Lisa Govan
MARISOL AND OTHER PLAYS
Jose Rivera
MARISOL
EACH DAY DIES WITH SLEEP (licensed by B P PI)
CLOUD TECTONICS (licensed by B P P I)
(play descriptions below)
MARISOL AND OTHER PLAYS: T C G
I S B N 1-55936-136-0: $14.95
EACH DAY DIES WITH SLEEP
"Here is a production to
restore our faith in live theater, and a play to restore our
interest in new theater. Jose Rivera,--forty this year, an
American playwright born in Puerto Rico--wrote EACH DAY DIES WITH
SLEEP in 1990...it's real subject is the primitive human struggle
between animal instincts and civilized order. The
language--poetic, intense, heightened, rude, stunted, funny, by
turns--is always vivid.
I simply testify that it is
months since I was so worked up by characters in a play as
here.... Rivera's play brings fresh imaginative vitality to the
London theater. Its conception of the human condition as a
psychic battleground--lively, funny, erotic, tragic--has a rare
force."
Alastair Macaulay, Financial
Times
CLOUD TECTONICS
"...CLOUD TECTONICS, Jose
Rivera's often enchanting new play... Rivera has successfully
mixed two styles in which he previously dabbled, realism and
magic realism, to produce a naturalistic play interlaced with
symbols and magical occurrences. In doing so, he has found a
voice to probe the mystery of the kind of love that stops your
heart as surely as it does your sense of time and space. And he
does it without goo."
Laurie Winer, Los Angeles
Times
"The operative phrase for
Jose Rivera's work is `magic realism', which doesn't mean much
until you've been put under the spell of his brief and lovely
play, CLOUD TECTONICS.
It's a love story, an old
boy-meets-girl story, but...it's also a story of theatrical
enchantment, in which the ordinary is suddenly transformed into
the miraculous.
On a fantastically rainy night
in Los Angeles, the city of Angels, a plain Joe named Anibal de
la Luna picks up and brings home with him a poor, bedraggled
woman hitchhiker who calls herself Celestina del Sol. She is
fifty-four years old, she says, and she has been pregnant two
years.
She is indeed a rare and
heavenly creature, a mystic wanderer with no sense of time and an
infinite capacity to love.
Alone in his little house,
sealed off from the wails of the decaying city outside, De la
Luna and Del Sol come together, joining their bodies and their
dreams."
Richard Christiansen, Chicago
Tribune
MARISOL AND OTHER PLAYS: T C G
I S B N 1-55936-136-0: $14.95