For Your Entertainment: Chicago Goodman Theater's Song for the Disappeared, A Play About the Mexican Border & its War on Drugs
There is nothing like Chicago theater. The midwestern city has a theater scene that is diverse, thriving, and robust, and I miss it. Thankfully, I am headed to Chicago for the holidays and my first "to-do" is going to see some shows.
The first play that is on my list is "Song for the Disappeared" written by Tanya Saracho.
According to the play synopsis, this story "...tells the story of a fractured family that comes together when the youngest son mysteriously disappears—presumably at the hands of the narcos that dominate the US/Mexico border. Patriarch Leo Cantú is a successful businessman with a new trophy wife and two adult daughters who haven’t recovered from their mother’s recent death: one, a strong-willed writer who fled to Chicago, the other a fragile shut-away who spends her time playing video games and nursing injured animals back to health. When their carefree (and sometimes careless) younger brother, Javi, disappears the family is forced into their first reunion since their mother’s funeral in search of the baby brother that no one—not the headstrong older daughter nor the larger-than-life father—knows how to find."
I am personally excited considering I am living on the U.S. Mexican border and I read so much about disapperances and the drug violence that has plagued certain areas of the border.
Best of all the show is free, however a donation is suggested. Get your tickets here.
picture via the Goodman theater. Alejandra Escalante (Nene Cantú) in Goodman Theatre’s New Stages workshop production of Song for the Disappeared by Tanya Saracho, directed by Laurie Woolery
