![]() If anyone out there reading is in Chicago and happens to see the play, let me know what you think. If approached correctly, they can yield so much about human nature, and that’s the real power of these visual manifestations. Who remembers this post about The Jesus Hickey? While I can’t vouch for the quality of either play it does not surprise me that writers, visual artists, film directors and actors delve into these stories. In 2005, under the Kennedy Expressway, a young woman saw a Mary-shaped formation on the wall and declared it Our Lady of the Underpass. This is not the first play inspired by these stories. Our Lady of the Underpass's restoration began with Brian Sidney Bembridge's scenic design of the image what some claimed was the silhouette of the Virgin Mary left by a salt stain on a concrete. 4 Theat Scoo t DP Unty Our Lady of Kibeho 5 DRAMATURGY NOTE The Theatre School’s production of Our Lady of Kibeho is not the first time the Virgin Mary has appeared on Fullerton Avenue. Sounds like the Madonna of the Toast mantra: What do you see?Īpparently the play is a series of monologues that covers the range of attitudes about the image, from devout to derisory, which are separated by “clever choral recitations that bring to mind different types of prayer.” I haven’t seen or read the play, but this review from the Chicago Reader makes it sound like Saracho’s approach to the topic is very similar to Madonna of the Toast’s, in that they both leave the image in question up to the viewer: “It’s Saracho’s genius to keep questions of reality unresolved, to leave open the gap between an indisputable fact-a salt stain on a cement wall-and what human beings make of it: art, faith.” Co-Production with Victory Gardens Theater. Jeff Award Nomination Best Lighting Design Jeremy Getz for El Grito Del Bronx. ![]() Tanya Saracho for Our Lady of the Underpass. Where some saw a miraculous image, however, others saw a mere salt stain. For a short while, Our Lady of the Underpass became national news and a local pilgrimage site. Playwright Tanya Saracho has penned Our Lady of the Underpass and it runs at Teatro Vista until the end of March. Jeff Award Nomination Best Production Our Lady of the Underpass. In 2005 in Chicago, a young woman was driving home from work and looked at the wall of an underpass where she saw an image of the Virgin Mary. The image is now gone, but the story will live on, not only in a forum such as this, but on stage as well. The image drew jeers and cheers for years, until it was spray-painted with devil horns and then covered over by city officials. In that, I have to give the Our Lady of the Underpass crowd a nod. Recently, I reported the conclusion of the saga that unfolded from the 2005 discovery of a Virgin Mary image under a highway in Chicago. By the time you read this, the hoopla over the saltwater stain Madonna on the wall.
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