LAURE
written by Mya Ison
In Development:
about the play
Laure is a play in response to the painting “Olympia” by Manet (1865), imagining that the Black model, Laure, was not erased from the archive. By adapting themes from the “The Picture of Dorian Gray” by Oscar Wilde (1890), this play creates a three-dimensional world through its four characters, and engages with agency, gaze, and the power of the erotic.
It is full of rhythm, tenderness, blood, eruptions, love.
Mya Ison began writing this play in the spring of 2020, and Mya and I produced it as our senior thesis as a Boston University School of Theatre Lab production with co-director Julian X and dramaturg Edward Sturm.
The play is still being developed with a large and brilliant span of talented artists. As the play deepens, we also plan to explore and play with the different ways we can workshop, develop, and bring this piece to different communities.
productions + workshops
September 2023
New York Theatre Workshop--Dorothy Strelsin Mondays at 3 Reading Series
July 2023
Staged Reading with The Tank NYC
November 2021
Boston University School of Theatre--Lab Productions
Stay tuned as we continue to develop this piece!
production photos
photography: Sarah Coleman, Julian X
