The sheer logistical challenges that must have been presented by this fascinating project -- a multidimensional evocation of several emblematic paintings by Henry Darger, the fabled Chicago "outsider" artist who worked for decades as a hospital janitor while also producing a mammoth 15,000-page fantasy saga in his Lincoln Park studio -- are almost too great to imagine. And when you see tiny twentysomething director Devon de Mayo (who collaborated with Krissy Vanderwarker and Heather Rafferty) moving around with the audience as the work unfolds, you begin to understand why she might well have been part of the army of pre-pubescent "Vivian girls" who eventually engaged in a ferocious rebellion against their evil captors in the artist's "Realm of the Unreal." Read the full article at the original source (Chicago Sun-Times)…

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