We write plays in order to organize despair and chaos. —José Rivera, in “36 Assumptions About Writing Plays”
Director Steve Cosson, playwright José Rivera, and composer Héctor Buitrago obviously recognized the potential. Receiving its world premiere now at Goodman Theatre, their musical, Another Word for Beauty, takes on all of the above in two and a half hours. And conscientiously too: according to a program essay by dramaturge Neena Arndt, Cosson recruited a cadre of Colombian theater artists to conduct interviews with inmates and officials alike, and the entire team was present for the 2012 pageant.
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