SHOWS

Aiming for Sainthood

Written by Arlene Malinowski

Presented by Millennium Park and Chicago Dramatists

March 25, 2010 — March 27, 2010
Jay Pritzker Pavillion
$10

TO REACH THE JAY PRITZKER PAVILION STAGE, ENTER AT 201 EAST RANDOLPH

The one-woman, autobiographical show, Aiming for Sainthood, the third offering in Millennium Park’s new theater lab series, In the Works, is coming to the Jay Pritzker Pavilion from March 25-27, 2010 at 7:30 p.m.  Presented by Millennium Park and Chicago Dramatists, Aiming for Sainthood is written and performed by Chicago Dramatists Resident Playwright, Arlene Malinowski, who tells her story through sign language and voice, using both deaf and storytelling techniques. Chicago Dramatists’ new Associate Artistic Director, Richard Perez, will direct.

As the hearing daughter of devoutly Catholic deaf parents, Malinowski learns to navigate the cross-cultural maze of the medical world and the deaf world, when, as an adult, she returns home to care for her cancer stricken mother. Aiming for Sainthood is about parents and children, deaf and hearing, love and forgiveness, faith and tolerance, and finding oneself.

With the In The Works series, audiences have a chance to sit on the stage of the Jay Pritzker Pavilion, experiencing works in development by local theater artists or companies. The series is supported by a grant from The Boeing Company Charitable Trust.