The performance includes startling images from many of Chicago’s finest nature preserves combined with delightful storytelling and readings from Mike’s literary coffee-table book of the same name.
The show celebrates grand landscapes and natural wonders from the area’s finest local nature preserves, ranging from Westchester’s Wolf Road Prairie to Zion’s Illinois Beach State Park, Romeoville’s O’Hara Woods to Elgin’s Bluff Spring Fen. Audience members will find themselves awestruck and stunned, not just by the splendor, but by the surprising vastness of Chicagoland’s natural vistas.
Mike has been performing professional comedy and improvisation for over thirty years, so don’t expect him to stand behind a podium and read from a script. And don’t expect a soothing English accent, either, like a narrator from a PBS nature special. Inspirational, hilarious, and often quite moving, Mike speaks passionately about his time in the wilds of Chicago and the natural wonders of the region, including a blue melting flower and a spear-like grass seed that drills itself into the soil. And if that’s not enough, Mike will read his poetry and excerpts from the book.
“My Journey into the Wilds of Chicago” will easily appeal to nature lovers, photographers, and anyone who appreciates art and the sublime. If PBS nature programs are your thing, then this performance is definitely for you—well, unless you require an English accent.
The show lasts 90 minutes. If time remains, Mike will gladly take questions from the audience.
This nature program is appropriate for audiences of all ages.
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