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Georgia O'Keefe (China Forbes) and Alfred Stieglitz (Karl Lampley) are in fact dead. While their exact metaphysical standing in the play is unclear, spiritually O'Keefe and Stieglitz stand out. They open the performance by addressing the audience, quibbling familiarly over the details of their lives...
...Stieglitz portrays a noble ghost. On the defensive for most of the play, he pleads with Georgia to remember that intense love, not self-serving objectification, was the main ingredient of their past life together. Lampley makes Stieglitz an attractive character for whom we feel compassion. He lends a crucial element to the legendary love between...
...famous history of the couple goes, Stieglitz discovered O'Keefe and put her paintings in his fabled New York gallery, catapulting her to fame and fortune. His photographs of her also earned him great renown, and the love affair which ensued between them was passionate and long-lived...
...Keefe, looking back with a wise, posthumous perspective, questions the price of the passion between them. She accuses Stieglitz of objectifying her and earning money from pictures of her. It is a harsh accusation and Stieglitz protests. "I love you Georgia, you are my world," he says. We believe him because it's what we've always heard about the famous couple, and it's what we always wanted to believe...
...senior at Yale, was not content to simply explore the conflict between making art and making love in a retrospective of the famous couple. She creates a modern day O'Keefe/Stieglitz couple who speak in contemporary slang instead of smooth myth tones. While Georgia says passionately to Stieglitz, "I will not be your metaphor," her modern day counterpart curses "Fuck...