Award-winning playwright Carolyn Gage's play, Georgia and the Butch, produced by the Skeleton Rep(resents), will premiere Feb. 25 - March 12, 2025 at The Tank in New York City. Tickets available here.
Gage's stage adaptation of Barbara Buhler Lynes and Ann Paden's book documenting a decade of letters between Maria Chabot and Georgia O'Keeffe, had two weeks of sold out shows in New Mexico this past summer and offers new insights into the complex relationship between the two women.
"It is a story of devotion and infatuation that is driven by society’s rejection of the masculine woman and of the lesbian. The story of Georgia and the Butch is an important one, a missing piece of women’s history," Gage shares.
The new production in NYC is thanks to the work of Ria T. DiLullo, who played Maria Chabot in the online productions that over 1,000 attended in 2022-23. Ria's experience playing Maria is instrumental in this new production:
"Maria writes to Georgia, "You gave me back to myself and you could not have given me more.' Well, that is how I feel about Maria. The opportunity to bring her to life through theater has provided me a way back to parts of myself I didn't know I still carried and that still mattered to me. I, Ria, am getting ok with being a 'Maria' for the first time in my life."
Both Carolyn and I are planning on attending a show and we hope you are too. This adaptation, with its original performers, is not to be missed.
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