TEA WITH MARY CASSATT
Photo by Ruth Carr. |
Laura R. Duggan received her Master of Arts in Theatre Education from the Emerson College. Her one-woman play, Tea with Mary Cassatt, premiered at Emerson's Green Theatre in December of 2006. Mrs. Duggan is a Massachusetts certified Secondary History teacher with over 10 years of experience working with "at risk" students in Boston. Mrs. Duggan's students had displayed their artwork for many years in the Doc Kountze Festival window art displays for years. Other plays written by her include a musical entitled Give Thanks, which tells the story of the Wampanoag Indians and Pilgrims at Plymouth and a series of parable plays based on bible stories. |
Mary Cassatt was an impressionist painter. She first
studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and then
went to Europe to study the great masters. While in Paris,
she joined with the Impressionists and was the only
American artist asked to exhibit with them. Mary Cassatt
worked closely with Edgar Degas. The exact nature of their
relationship is unknown. Both artists burned their letters
to each other before their deaths. it was Degas who first
suggested that Miss Cassatt paint the maternal pictures
that would make her famous.
Degas quotes on Mary Cassatt:
"I do not admit that a woman can draw like that!"
"She has infinite talent"
