Picasso At The Lapin Agile
by Steve Martin

Name: Picasso At The Lapin Agile
Brand: Steve Martin
SKU: 9780573695643
Rating: 3.97 (4241 reviews)

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Highlights

Medium Cast

Female

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75 mins 1900-1910 Expandable Casting Interior Set Period Costumes American Comedy

Awards & Recognition

Outer Critics Circle

Winner! 1996 Outer Critics Circle Award, Best Off Broadway Play

Synopsis

This long running Off Broadway absurdist comedy places Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso in a Parisian cafe in 1904 just before the renowned scientist transformed physics with his theory of relativity and the celebrated painter set the art world afire with cubism.

In his first comedy for the stage the popular actor and screenwriter plays fast and loose with fact fame and fortune as these two geniuses muse on the century's achievements and prospects as well as other fanciful topics with inf

Press Reviews

"It’s important to remember that the playwright of Picasso at the Lapin Agile is Steve Martin, stand-up comic, actor, writer, banjo player and something of a genius in his own right. So when big questions are being addressed, you can be sure that a layer of silliness is always in place (and, subversively, a layer of seriousness beneath that)."
— The New York Times

"Highly credible and... very funny. The subject matter is daring... You get giggles in plenty [and] moments of enlightenment... The introduction of the final, exquisitely selected visitor from the future is a master stroke."
— New York Post

"Consistently entertaining."
— New York Daily News

"Very engaging... Martin sends ideas onstage in baggy pants, with a cigar... mix[ing] the sublime with the ridiculous [so] that they can't be easily disentangled... Very good fun."
— The New York Times