Marisol is absurdist theatre and is therefore, I think, both more difficult to explain and more interesting to attempt. There are themes of personal identity/loss of identity, mental illness, racism, late stage capitalism, misogyny and violence, and faith. However, the main idea of this play is the need for humanity to seize control of their own destiny and choose to care, no matter how hard it seems.

In heaven, God has become senile and is neglecting his creations, leading to the absence of the moon, the extinction of apples, coffee, etc., and general mayhem and sin. On earth, late stage capitalism mirrors the situation; CitiBank has as set up a torture center where people who go over their credit card limit are “violated” and it employs Nazis to light homeless people on fire in Van Cortland Park. The guardian angels–the last line of defense from total anarchy–leave earth to usurp God and leave humankind defenseless against themselves. 

In the eleventh hour, Marisol brings the heaven and earth together. She implores the homeless, ragged human population to join the war against heaven and help bring about the new world order. With mortal help, the tides of the war turn in favor of the angels. In the last moment of the play, Marisol delivers the first line of the show that embraces the future of the new world rather than longing for the return of the old one: “Oh God. What light. What possibilities. What hope."