Can a Play Capture an Artist as Enigmatic as Henry Darger?

Can a Play Capture an Artist as Enigmatic as Henry Darger?

Henry Darger left behind one of the strangest imaginative monuments of the twentieth century: a vast private cosmos teeming with angelic child armies, sadistic empires, blizzards, tornadoes, serpentine sky-beasts, and wars fought over the fate of enslaved children. After his death, the whole sprawling kingdom surfaced at once, like an inheritance no one knew to claim. Critics, encountering the hoard, have naturally reached for labels. “Outsider …