“Antonio’s Song/I Was Dreaming of a Son,” is an 80-minute solo work at the Goodman Theatre performed by American actor Antonio Edwards Suarez, who cowrote the piece with Dael Orlandersmith, one of the great American masters of this particular genre.
Antonio Edwards Suarez in"Antonio’s Song/I Was Dreaming of a Son" at the Goodman Theatre.
So it goes with “Antonio’s Song/I Was Dreaming of a Son,” an 80-minute solo work at the Goodman Theatre performed by the busy American actor Antonio Edwards Suarez, who cowrote the piece with Dael Orlandersmith, one of the great American masters of this particular genre.Herein, Suarez, who is part Latino and part Black, recounts a tough and hard-driven Brooklyn youth which saw him shifting on the streets between his Latino and Black friends, depending on the day of the week.
Suarez is a skilled, intense and engaging performance and the show, subtly directed by Mark Clements, is artistically rich of presentation. Knowing Orlandersmith and her work, I suspect she functioned as a mentor here and the text is poetic and complex. It has many moving moments, notwithstanding a certain remove the piece maintains from its audience.
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