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Gray Horan’s new play, Twelve Installations, will be presented at Parish Players in February 2025. Horan started writing plays as an encore career. She’ll take you into the creative process and development journey of an original play.

Art comes to Life as we follow La Parisienne, the subject of a 1913 painting by Robert Delaunay. Not only is she a work of art, but she’s a real piece of work! A chic French woman with a disdain for body shaming and a flippant tongue that won’t be silenced. Her admirers include actress Apollinaire and a few millionaires.

She’s a creative triumph, a provocative beauty, and a cunning survivor. She passes through the hands and gazes of charlatans and connoisseurs. We follow her from Paris to Berlin to Texas and beyond. As La Parisienne navigates wars, abandonment, competition, and the ravages of time, she realizes it’s a fine line between seductress and outcast. While wondering if she’ll be traded up or down, or where she’ll hang next, she has a thing or two to say about Picasso.

The painting hung on Greta Garbo’s walls for 60 years until Horan watched it depart in the gloved hands of an art transfer team. As a parting tribute, she wrote this play.