Marisol by Jose Rivera (1993 Obie Award for Playwriting)

Marisol is a beautiful, surreal and apocalyptic play by José Rivera that follows Marisol Perez, a young Puerto Rican woman and Manhattan copy editor, whose world plunges into chaos. When her guardian angel abandons her to join a heavenly war against a dying, senile God, Marisol must navigate a dystopian New York City where the moon disappears, the air is toxic, and social order collapses. Written in 1989, this play resonates today as an urban fantasy which urges society to "wake up" and somehow find a way to recover the long-lost and much-needed compassion for our fellow man, as this is the only way to save our world.