GEORGIA AND THE BUTCH: Adapted from Maria Chabot - Georgia O'Keeffe: Correspondence, 1941-1949

Adaptation by Carolyn Gage

February 25th at 7pm

February 26th at 7pm

March 1st at 3pm

March 3rd at 7pm

March 5th at 7pm

March 8th at 3pm

March 9th at 7pm

March 12th at 7pm

Producer - The Skeleton Rep(resents)

Sam Given - Director

Daniel Scarantino - Production Stage Manager

Robert Gonyo - Sound Designer

Jonathan Cottle - Light Designer

Hope Salvan - Costume Designer

Raina Lawrence - Production Assistant

Ria T. DiLullo - Actor (Maria Chabot)

Gael Schaefer* - Actor (Georgia O'Keeffe)

Sheilagh Weymouth* - Actor (Mary Cabot Wheelwright)

A new play adapted from the letters between famous artist Georgia O’Keeffe and advocate for Native American arts and rancher Maria Chabot during their nine-year intimate relationship, from 1941 to 1949. This production is intended to highlight an intense and controversial intimacy that has been minimized, mischaracterized, or written out of Georgia’s history.

It is a relationship between an older, gender-non-conforming, fiercely independent artist and a young lesbian butch who was experiencing profound confusion about her identity and about her place in the world. Whatever imbalances and dysfunction there may have been between these incredibly strong-willed and visionary women, one cannot dispute that the camping trips with Maria resulted in some of Georgia’s most iconic landscapes, and that the house and garden at Abiquiu, designed and built by Maria, stand as a stunning testament to a young lesbian’s all-consuming devotion to her muse.

*Equity Member appearing with permission of Actors’ Equity Association without benefit of an Equity contract in this Off-Off Broadway production.