MarisolBy Jose Rivera In August 2007 the members of Orfeo Group came together to produce this exciting show in Boston University's Studio 210. This tail of magical realism featured many of Orfeo's talents and marked their first splash into the Boston Theater scene. 
About the ShowThe production was directed by Sarah Golden Martin and featured many familiar young Boston actors: Risher Reddick, Elizabeth Hayes, Georgia Lyman, Daniel Berger-Jones, Ramona L. Alexander and Cristina Miles as Marisol Perez. Orfeo Member Caleb Jon Magoon designed the lighting. José Rivera's OBIE Award-winning play MARISOL follows Marisol Perez, a Puerto Rican Everywoman, through a turbulent world all the more harrowing for its connections to our own. When her guardian Angel deserts her to wage war on a dying God, Marisol is left alone to fend for herself on the streets of New York. As she journeys from the Bronx to Brooklyn, she faces neo-Nazis, spiritual restlessness, a diseased and dying world and the inescapable need to rise up and fight. A magically realistic work of stark beauty and absurd humor, Rivera's penetrating vision holds up a twisted mirror to reality, revealing a simultaneously thrilling and dangerous world. “In its maiden effort,
Orfeo has pulled together some of the best young actors in town. As a whole, the ensemble is certainly
among the strongest of the year, and deserves IRNE and Norton nominations. ”
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Risher Reddick - Marisol
Liz Hayes and CRISTI MILES - Marisol
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