A new play by Lydia Blaisdell will have its world premiere in four performances at the Downtown Arts Center, produced and directed by Eric Seale, formerly of Actors Guild. THE SILENT WOMAN won the biennial Prize for Women Playwrights from the Kentucky Women Writers Conference (KWWC) and was selected from over 300 submissions by acclaimed playwright Carson Kreitzer.
THE SILENT WOMAN tells the strange, true tale of a painter living with an effigy of his ex-lover in 1919 Dresden, Germany. Expressionist painter Oskar Kokoschka, stabbed in the lung by a bayonet in World War I, returns home to convalesce and finds that his love, Alma Mahler, has married celebrated architect Walter Gropius. Kokoschka coped with his loss by commissioning a life-sized doll modeled after Alma. Blaisdell’s script depicts this risqué episode from the point of view of chambermaid Hulda, persuaded to serve as a ladies maid to the effigy. They reside on the sheestate of Oskar’s patron, whose butler is Hulda’s boss, complicating the lines of authority. While Oskar struggles to overcome sorrow and regain his ability to paint, Hulda develops a desire for a life beyond the confines of women in her position.
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