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Player NewsThe Wellesley Players are pleased to announce the cast of Picasso at the Lapin AgileThe Wellesley Players are pleased to announce the cast of Picasso at the Lapin Agile Picasso at the Lapin Agile Written By Steve Martin Directed by Laura Espy Stage Manager: Jean MacFarland Production Dates November 6, 7, 13, and 14 at 8pm, November 8 and 15 at 2pm The Players had over 60 people audition. Thanks to all that auditioned. Laura Espy will also be at our Annual Meeting on June 2 at the home of Lois Goodman to speak more about the show.
About the Show: So Einstein and Picasso walk into a bar. This long running Off-Broadway absurdist comedy by Steve Martin 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, Picassos 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. As Martin has said, the play attempts to explain, in a light-hearted way, the similarity of the creative process involved in great leaps of imagination in art and science.
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