GAL Productions is a newly founded company by Beth Graham and Daniela Vlaskalic, who are both actors and playwrights. They met as students at the University of Alberta, while taking their BFAs in acting. After graduating, they teamed up with Charlie Tomlinson and created The Drowning Girls. They’ve been writing together since 1999 and their other collaborations include: Comrades, The Last Train, A Foolish Boy and Mules, which received its world premiere at Theatrefront in Toronto in 2019. Their latest collaboration, Dora Maar: the wicked one, premiered at the High Performance Rodeo (Spring Edition 2022) in Calgary and went on to be a part of the 2022/23 Season at Workshop West Playwrights Theatre in Edmonton.

Dora Maar: the wicked one

By Beth Graham & Daniela Vlaskalic Directed by Blake Brooker

In 1935, the brilliant photographer and artist Dora Maar meets Pablo Picasso at a cafe in Paris. Thus begins a relationship with the most famous artist in the world. Dora Maar, an artist in her own right, and celebrated in surrealist circles, was focused on her own artistic trajectory when she met Picasso. During their ten-year relationship, which spanned the second world war and the occupation of France, Dora slowly abandons her art form to support him and his overpowering vision. When Dora’s relationship with Picasso begins to unravel, she examines the sacrifice and the heartbreaking cost of loving Picasso and being his muse. What would Picasso be without her and what is she without him? Dora Maar: the wicked one is a play about love, obsession, and surrealism.

Dora Maar: Teaser “The Game”