Dora Maar

DORA MAAR is a two-person play interrogating the real life of Surrealist artist Dora Maar, her personal artistic struggle, her existential drive to make art and rejection of the traditional female role in the early 20th century, her anti-fascist activism, her will to make art in Nazi occupied Paris, her relationship with Picasso and, most importantly, their collaboration on the masterpiece, Guernica. The play is non-traditional, divided into 7 acts & interludes reflecting the 7 distinct stages of the making of Guernica, while also following the rules of surrealist photography and cubist painting in the play's narrative structure itself. The scenes are told in non-linear fragments, which, when performed separately are jarring and out of time, but performed as a whole, paint a beautiful human portrait of a fiercely devoted artistic figure.