Very depressing play, with few if any uplifting moments. Agree hard to imagine such a strong figure dying. Characters stories, like Niki left unfinished.

This play is billed as magical realism, but it's much too clunky to be categorized as that. It feels in its present form like a diagram rather than a well drawn play. The acting feels kind of flat too, and seeing a dying man look and talk so healthy is a little startling. The breaks between scenes with the loud noise video looks very cliche. All in all, it feels like a workshop production but an otherwise fine writer. Marisol is a great play.

What starts out as an intriguing premise quickly falls apart by the second act. Why does Nikki committ suicide when the story begins? Her sister decides to try to send a messenger to the afterlife to try to connect one last time. But here the plot doesn't twist, it convulses. When the lights go up on the second act, the play seems to have lost all interest in Nikki. We are suddenly watching the journey, and a tedious one at that, of the Messenger as he ploughs through encounters with his own deceased and tormented family. What happened to Nikki? Her character, as well as her story, shuffle by occasionally, but center stage has now been hijacked by the pearl clutching bathos of the Messenger’s ancestors. You could feel the audience’s spirits droop as the cavalcade of Dante-lite characters trooped past, while we all waited desperately for Nikki’s story to return so we could find out what the message was! Somehow, this too seems to have been lost in the shuffle.