“Oftentimes,” says Henry Godinez, the Goodman’s resident artistic associate, “corporal work in Latin American theater tends to be stylized and graceful and elegant and metaphorical.” Not so the blood-soaked production of Mendoza he witnessed two years ago in Mexico City: “I was blown away by it . . . This is just outright friggin’ visceral as all heck,” he says.
“I always think that’s a good cautionary tale for us as a country here,” says Godinez, “because we’re not immune from that sort of obsession with power. I think it’s a great opportunity for our audiences to see it through a lens that is very real for our closest neighbor to the south.
10/3-10/7: Wed-Thu 7:30 PM, Fri-Sat 8 PM, Sun 2 PM, Goodman Theatre, 170 N. Dearborn, 312-443-3800, goodmantheatre.org, $25.
