"O'Keeffe" a one woman show written by Lucinda McDermott, presented by Paris Community Theatre

"O'Keeffe" a one-woman show written by Lucinda McDermott and performed by Carolyn Wickwire at Paris Community Theatre. The last time Carolyn Wickwire was on stage before an audience in her home town of Paris, was as a dowdy school teacher in her senior class play, "You Can't Kiss Caroline" in 1954. About a year and a half ago,Wickwire and her friend and business partner Dennis West began to consider a plan to mount a one-woman show and formed a production company named Flower and Bone. An interest and fascination with the life and art of iconic American artist Georgia O'Keeffe drew Wickwire to a play writin in the early 90s by Lucinda McDermott. "O'Keeffe was such a complex woman. "She struggled all her life to maintain her independence and to find her own voice" said Wickwire. "She struggled to balance her love for her work with her very deep love for her pioneering photographer Alfred Stieglitz. They were very much alike in the way they worked, "she added, there's a line in the play where she says "He's trying to do with light what I'm tying to do with paint"