Laure

Presented by the School of Theatre at Boston University in November 2021, 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. Written by Mya Ison (CFA’22), Directed by Gigi Juras (CFA’22)

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