Swimming with Van Gogh
Chosen for the Arkansas New Play Festival in 2013 - directed by Kevin Fox
About:
A play about sex and boundaries in love and art. What and where are the limits of the creative spirit? Set in a lighthouse on the shores of Lake Michigan, Claire, a mid-career painter fights being pigeonholed as a “woman’s perspective painter” – Georgia O’Keefe’s complaint her entire career. At odds with this goal of breaking sexual category -- is the main character’s struggle with her own dwindling sexual appeal. Her male counter-part is sleeping with a 26-year-old. Invisible to the world as a woman of a certain age – she connects only with her 24 year old student – “a walking ad for…well…something illegal.” Juan Villa (fellow playwright/actor) commented that he never sees sexy plays anymore and this one is the longest fore-play he’d ever seen. Thus the paradox of the piece – a play about trying to break sexual definition – is by its very nature – a sexy discussion.
Chosen for the Arkansas New Play Festival in 2013 - directed by Kevin Fox
About:
A play about sex and boundaries in love and art. What and where are the limits of the creative spirit? Set in a lighthouse on the shores of Lake Michigan, Claire, a mid-career painter fights being pigeonholed as a “woman’s perspective painter” – Georgia O’Keefe’s complaint her entire career. At odds with this goal of breaking sexual category -- is the main character’s struggle with her own dwindling sexual appeal. Her male counter-part is sleeping with a 26-year-old. Invisible to the world as a woman of a certain age – she connects only with her 24 year old student – “a walking ad for…well…something illegal.” Juan Villa (fellow playwright/actor) commented that he never sees sexy plays anymore and this one is the longest fore-play he’d ever seen. Thus the paradox of the piece – a play about trying to break sexual definition – is by its very nature – a sexy discussion.
