All rights reserved. A flapping of giant wings. Light glows within waves that roll inside a narrow chamber. A corpse unfolds like a wilted gardenia.
Eyes cast long red filaments at nearby objects.
A woman climbs sure-footed up open drawers to the ceiling. These images and more emerge at Chicago's Goodman Theatre in Mary Zimmerman's fascinating vision of the ideas reflected in the mirror-reversed words written by a painter. The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci live and breathe. Director Zimmerman created the work for the Goodman in 1993. Its fame has spread far and wide.