• AirPlay Presents: Picasso's Women

  • Nov 17 2021
  • Length: 35 mins
  • Podcast

AirPlay Presents: Picasso's Women

  • Summary

  • One of Picasso's Women, Marie Therese Walter is dead but currently inhabiting the body that she died with! She can recall any element of her past but tends to do so with the thoughts and feelings of that particular moment. Contrary to much perceived (male) opinion, Marie-Therese is a gentle, likeable woman who always wants to think the best of everyone. This piece is a bit like the overlapping facet or perspective in a cubist painting. Incidents, motifs, & versions of events appear and re-appear.
    Brian McAvera (Playwright) Dramatist, Director, Curator and Art Historian, Brian has written 25 stage plays, radio plays for the BBC and RTE (many of them translated) and two television films, one of which he directed. He has directed for the stage, including the world premiere of John Arden’s The Ballygombeen Bequest, and was co-founder of New Writers’ Theatre in Belfast in the early 1980s. His best-known plays (published by Oberon Books) include Picasso’s Women, a series of eight monologues first performed at the National Theatre in London, and at the Edinburgh Festival. They have since been translated into 15 languages. He is an artistic adviser to Focus Theatre, Dublin, and sits on the theatre committee of the Writers’ Guild. In the world of visual arts, he has published 12 books including Art, Politics and Ireland. He writes regularly for the Irish Arts Review and Sculpture (in the USA).
    Carrie Wesolowski (Director/Marie Therese) Born and raised in NYC, Carrie is an Actor/Director, Host and Singer whose credits span film, theatre, television and now Zoom. Carrie was the female lead Actor and Director of SIMON SAYS-- a finalist for the 1st Annual Playbill Virtual Theater Festival 2020. Her work as Director/Actor in Coni Koepfinger’s The Unusual Chauncey Faust was recently seen in Manhattan Rep’s Stories Film Festival. ...
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