Skull Against the Sky

a short play about Georgia O'Keeffe in 1933

After suffering a nervous breakdown, Georgia O’Keeffe hasn’t done any painting in over a year. While recuperating at her husband Alfred Stieglitz’s family home at Lake George, she finds love and laughter in the company of an old friend, Jean Toomer. But is this enough for her?

CHARACTERS
Female
GEORGIA O’KEEFFE       artist, aged 46
Male
JEAN TOOMER                writer, mixed race, aged 38
ALFRED STIEGLITZ         photographer and art promoter, aged 69


SETTING
Oaklawn, Lake George, New York

TIME
Saturday night, December 23, 1933