Angel: “My wrath is as fearsome as my countenance is splendid!” … OK, that was from “Angels in America,” but the quote works nicely for “Marisol” as well. Pictured are Jasmine Caldwell, left, and Kala Roquemore, the play’s rebellious angels.
Benjamin Bonenfant, known in Denver as a rising young actor for the Colorado Shakespeare Festival (“Romeo and Juliet”), Denver Center Theatre Company (“When We are Married”) and Curious Theatre (“Red”), is also associate producing director for the scrappy little company in Colorado Springs called Theatre ‘d Art. In “Marisol,” he plays Lenny, a somewhat psychotic man who becomes pregnant while the apocalypse plays out both in Heaven and on Earth — or perhaps only in Marisol’s harrowing dream.
The crew works quickly to repair Marisol’s bed, a key piece of set furniture in the play.
Star Margarita Archilla, left, runs a pre-show check of the video projections with director Anna Faye Hunter (back to camera).
Benjamin Bonenfant works the cast of 12 into a frenzy with a group warmup exercise moments before the start of “Marisol.” Margarita Archilla, far right, plays the title character. Center is Kaylora Marie.
Sallie Walker, right, with Herbert Eden, gets in the spirit for a menacing opening scene in which she plays a homeless man who instills a sense of foreboding and dread into a young Bronx woman.
The cast is ready to rock and revolt.
The mood-setting homeless prequel begins. Pictured above is Jonathan Andujar.
The curtain call.
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