Playwright – My Encore Career. From Inclination to Inspiration. From Page to Stage.
This special lecture by Gray Horan highlights her journey as a playwright and the development of her work from the page to the stage. You can choose to attend in-person in Osher Classroom 3A in Lebanon, or join via Zoom.
Day: Wednesday, February 5, 2025
Time: 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM
Location: Classroom 3A (third floor), 1 Court Street, Suite 380, Lebanon, NH 03766
OR join online via Zoom
Cost:
Free to Osher at Dartmouth members
$10 per person, non-members
Register: In-person
Register: Zoom
Gray Horan’s new play, Twelve Installations, will be presented at Parish Players in February 2025. Horan started writing plays as an encore career. She’ll take you into the creative process and development journey of an original play.
Art comes to Life as we follow La Parisienne, the subject of a 1913 painting by Robert Delaunay. Not only is she a work of art, but she’s a real piece of work! A chic French woman with a disdain for body shaming and a flippant tongue that won’t be silenced. Her admirers include actress Apollinaire and a few millionaires.
She’s a creative triumph, a provocative beauty, and a cunning survivor. She passes through the hands and gazes of charlatans and connoisseurs. We follow her from Paris to Berlin to Texas and beyond. As La Parisienne navigates wars, abandonment, competition, and the ravages of time, she realizes it’s a fine line between seductress and outcast. While wondering if she’ll be traded up or down, or where she’ll hang next, she has a thing or two to say about Picasso.
The painting hung on Greta Garbo’s walls for 60 years until Horan watched it depart in the gloved hands of an art transfer team. As a parting tribute, she wrote this play.
Gray Horan
Gray moved to Hanover from Rhode Island. Previously, she worked in marketing and product
licensing. She was also a freelance writer while raising her three sons. Her articles
have appeared in The New York Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer, Paris Match, Asahi Shimbun, Architectural Digest, and other publications. Gray learned about Osher at Dartmouth from her neighbor,
Osher president Peter Paquette. She is a graduate of Dartmouth College. Playwriting
is Gray’s 'encore career' using the ‘guardrails of history’ to craft stories for the
stage.
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