For over ten years, Chicago’s Gift Theatre Company has earned and deepened its reputation as an ensemble dedicated to acting of the highest caliber. Now, its Artistic Director Michael Patrick Thornton (The Dilemma, ABC’s Private Practice) takes on the title role in the Machiavellian rise and reign of Richard III. Thornton partners with the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago to re-define what (dis)ability and Shakespeare’s great villain look like by utilizing assistive devices past and present as innovative articulations of Richard’s protean identity, character and self-perception.