One man’s hubris brings grief and ruin to a once-vigorous community now translated into a populace of shrouded specters, pallid mirrors that reflect back on a beautiful time that was and the folly of a bitter soul. If the magical, musical and altogether lyrical play now enchanting the stage at Goodman Theatre were something from ancient Greece, it might be called “The Lamentations of Comala,” the Mexican village that provides the story’s setting, a ghost town that has literally been starved to death by its willful, angry patrón, Pedro Páramo.Īnd even though Cuban playwright Raquel Carrío’s adaptation preserves the title of Juan Rulfo’s 1955 novel, “Pedro Páramo,” an aura of Greek tragedy pervades the story as a visual work. Review: “Pedro Páramo,” adapted by Raquel Carrío from the novel by Juan Rulfo, at Goodman Theatre through March 31 ★★★★ By Lawrence B.
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