Underpass virgin mary6/3/2023 The monologues are separated by clever choral recitations that bring to mind different types of prayer-intercession, confession, petition. Based on interviews Saracho conducted at the Fullerton site, it consists mainly of monologues spoken by six characters talking to an invisible, silent interlocutor. The play was commissioned by the Goodman Theatre and received a reading there in 2006, but it’s been drastically revised for this vigorous production by Teatro Vista, where Saracho is a resident playwright. Playwright Tanya Saracho saw the potential in Chicago’s miracle for a theatrical forum on faith, and the result is her sometimes hilarious, sometimes moving Our Lady of the Underpass. Such magical/mundane apparitions-the Madonna has been spotted in places ranging from a grilled cheese sandwich in Florida to a pebble in New Zealand-are Rorschach tests for belief. Just two months ago, Fox News reported, with veiled outrage, that the Virgin had been defiled by graffiti devil horns. Flocks of the faithful and the curious came to see, and to pay tribute with flowers and candles-which drew international coverage and plenty of ridicule for Chicagoans. In April 2005, a salt stain on the wall of the I-94 underpass at Fullerton struck passersby with its resemblance to the Virgin Mary. OUR LADY OF THE UNDERPASS Teatro Vista at the Greenhouse Theater
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