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Picasso at the Lapin Agile
Picasso at the Lapin Agile | Steve Martin
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Comedy / Casting: 7m, 2f / Interior Scenery 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 infectious dizziness. Bystanders, including Picasso' agent, the bartender and his mistress, Picasso's date, an elderly philosopher, Charles Dabernow Schmendimen and an idiot inventor introduce additional flourishes of humor. The final surprise patron to join the merriment at the Lapin Agile is a charismatic dark haired singer time warped in from a later era. "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."-N.Y. Post "Consistently entertaining."-N.Y. 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
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JoyBlue
JoyBlue
Picasso at the Lapin Agile and Other Plays | Steve Martin
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Nice to come home from a long day at work to a special package!

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Simone_Gibson
Simone_Gibson
Picasso at the Lapin Agile | Steve Martin
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GERMAIN: And what do you do at night?— EINSTEIN: Ah, at night... at night the stars come out.—the stars in the sky?—The stars in my head.

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Sydsavvy
Sydsavvy
Picasso at the Lapin Agile and Other Plays | Steve Martin
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More fun reading for play selection. One of these is my favorite, all are fun, two have a surprise common factor. Anyone see any of these? (Boeing, Boeing and Four Weddings and an Elvis are the other two). Anyone else involved in #theatre? It's truly a reader's best friend❣️I'm lucky to live in such an artistic community.

readinginthedark My brother is an actor! I love reading plays. 7y
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GoneFishing
GoneFishing
Picasso at the Lapin Agile and Other Plays | Steve Martin

Yeah, well, we're all writers, aren't we? He's a writer that hasn't been published, and I'm a writer who hasn't written anything.

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manifestsanity
manifestsanity
Picasso at the Lapin Agile and Other Plays | Steve Martin
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Steve Martin's play imagines the fictitious meeting of Pablo Picasso and Albert Einstein at a Parisian bar in 1904. Picasso will soon paint "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" and Einstein is about to publish his theory of relativity. Even Elvis makes an appearance. It is hilarious and beautiful. One of my favorite things ever.

#artrelatedbooks #seasonsreadings2016

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LauraBeth
LauraBeth
Picasso at the Lapin Agile and Other Plays | Steve Martin
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Realizing that Steve Martin shares our book nerd problems 😀

josie281 Win! 8y
Tcip The answer is fuck yes. 8y
badnorthern I keep track of all the books I read each year and I always feel a little guilty about writing down audio books... 8y
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Tcip Screw that. Audiobooks are books. I am resolving this issue once and for all. 8y
kristinshafel Agreed, @Tcip: audiobooks are books! period! 😊 8y
Susannah @badnorthern, I felt the same way, but I decided to embrace audiobooks as an equivalent of reading books when I realized that by listening to classics rather than reading them, I was absorbing them much better. I do say "I'm listening to the audiobook of" rather than "I'm reading," which may be a hold over of that ambivalence I had before, but I truly believe they have equal value if you are engaging with the material. 8y
Arcana Reading is an active pursuit, where listening is passive, HOWEVER, either way we are absorbing the book, and that's what counts in the end😉 8y
quirkyreader Having a visual impairment and having friends with them as well, we consider audio books to be books. Besides it is much easier to carry around an audio book than one it braille( no offense Braille lovers). If no one has seen a book in Braille, those things are beasts and rival War And Peace by a long shot. And one book can stretch volumes. Here is my history junkie coming out. Talking books and audio books are a side effect of World War One. 8y
quirkyreader Many wounded vets wanted to keep reading and learn things. So a group of people got together and created the technology for talking books. And for a while the talking book players were more advanced then regular record players. So audio books are books. 8y
Theresa @quirkyreader That's fascinating information! Thanks for sharing! 8y
Gayan I totally agree with @Tcip . How else could I read while I drive? 8y
Superman_Books Yup agree, they are books 😊 8y
LilMamaMastro @quirkyreader 👍 8y
LauraBeth I agree with @Theresa and @LilMamaMastro - that's interesting to know about how audiobooks developed @quirkyreader! I grew up with a cousin who is blind and we would go to the library together as kids and he would get audiobooks so I have always thought that they were books! 8y
LauraBeth @josie281 😀 8y
LauraBeth 100 💯 8y
LauraBeth 100 percent agree with y'all @Tcip @Gayan, @Arcana, @kristinshafel, @Supermanbeer 😀 8y
LauraBeth @badnorthern have no shame in audiobooks! I agree with @Susannah 😀 8y
Marie_KN Ha ha ha! I listened to his memoir!😂 8y
LauraBeth @Marie_KN 😂😂😂 8y
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