DORA VERSUS PICASSO To Receive World Premiere Workshop Reading

A Workshop reading is being directed by Award-winning Director Yudelka Heyer", Founding Artist Director of Red Soil Productions in alliance with New Theatre Company, WBRP Productions, Adapted for the stage by Claire-Monique Martin.

"It isn't up to the painter to define the symbols, the public who look at the picture must interpret the symbols as they understand them."

• Pablo Picasso

1935, Pre World War Ii Paris, A World On The Verge Of Change:

A Chance meeting between DORA MAAR, a young surrealist photographer and the World famous painter, PABLO PICASSO would change both their lives forever.

Already successful in her field, Dora is said to be a 'tough cookie' in a society where women have no vote and an art world where female artists can survive only as the nude model/mistress or muse of a male painter.

Picasso, who is reputed to be hard on women, finds Dora not only intriguing but irresistible. The trauma and inner loneliness underlying his paintings and his cynicism are what draws Dora to this great Man, even to fall in love with him.

But as the strains of war increase, their relationship becomes increasingly fraught. Can they both emerge from their shattered relationship intact? How far is too far?

"Studies of Picasso have often underplayed the important role of the beautiful and intelligent photographer and painter Dora Maar, the only woman to have understood and stood up to him,"?

• Cecil Jenkins, Author of 'Dora Versus Picasso.

The Workshop Reading will be at: The Actor's Temple, 339 W 47th St, New York, NY 10036. Thursday, 8th November 2018 at 8:00 pm, (Doors open to the public at 7:00 pm with complimentary Wine and Vodka before the reading.)

Using Alumni from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, Cast includes: Claire-Monique Martin, Richard Barreto, Ayla Rossen, Stephan Byc, Barbara Bernadi