Marisol and other plays

'Surrealism, magic realism, expressionism, alternate-world realism – Rivera's tortured triange of father, daughter and son-in-law writhes across the entire map of modern Hispanic literature, in a beautifully lofty English – unsettling, disturbing, rich with excitement and hope'

'Shot through with a fierce Baudelairean poetry of decomposition, Rivera shares with the later Strindberg not only a passion for new non-material theatrical forms, but also a messianic mission to replace old and dying creeds with vibrant new visions'

'Rivera backs up his bizarre narrative conceits with real wisdom about things like love and age and America with a rich and funny verbal texture'

'A genuine poet of the theatre'