Art and history and music! It is all here! What a fabulous play for students (or anyone!), combining the Impressionists with their context and inspiration. In addition to being entertained, you learn things along the way - always a wonderful combination.

[11/1/2024] In IMPRESSIONS OF PARIS, it is so clear through this play how much knowledge and love Nora Louise Syran has for the city of Paris and its rich art and music history. I appreciate Syran's modern approach to interpreting of all the various French Impressionists, packaged in kind of a dream-like vignette style, which I couldn't help but feel was a love letter to Paris itself. Anyone part of a production of this play would learn a lot and have a great experience every step of the way!

Syran’s marvelously theatrical full-length play with music, set in 1890s Paris, explores the revolutionary Impressionism art movement and centers Suzanne Valadon, an artists’ model, muse and eventual artist, who refuses to be “boxed in” merely because she's a woman. Syran brings to life a plethora of fascinating characters including Monet, Manet, Renoir, Van Gogh, Degas, Toulouse-Lautrec and many others, as well women painters Berthe Morisot and Mary Cassatt who struggle for the same opportunities their male contemporaries receive. The play offers flexible casting and provides a unique theatrical experience that I would love to see on stage!