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Nearly two decades later, the two men sat across from a procession of actors, hundreds of them auditioning for a role in the play. They’d worked together on this comedy 18 years earlier while in grad school, when Arcuni took the stage as Picasso. He also knew who he wanted to direct it: Orestes Arcuni. And out of this setting we get a wild and crazy story.Įach year Palos Verdes Performing Arts presents a three-play series at the Norris Theatre, which usually means one play and two musicals, and this time around producer Chris Gilbert chose Steve Martin’s first play.

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“Picasso at the Lapin Agile” is bolstered by a fine supporting cast (names below) that includes Freddy the owner and bartender, his girlfriend and waitress Germaine, plus friends, strangers, and a most unusual visitor. At any rate, there’s no indication that Picasso and Einstein ever shared a vermouth at a bar in the City of Light. Literature is rife with what-ifs of historical figures crossing paths, who never had that luck or luxury in real life, even if, briefly, they were in the same city at the same time (e.g., Tom Stoppard’s “Travesties” which opens in 1917 with James Joyce, Vladimir Lenin, and Tristan Tzara in the Zurich Public Library). Pablo Picasso, a tender 23 but already stirring up embers in the art world, will create his groundsmashing “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon” in 1907. It’s 1904, and a young Albert Einstein, age 25, is a year away from publishing his theory of relativity. For those who don’t speak the language of Catherine Deneuve and Jean-Paul Sartre, the name of the bar translates as the Agile Rabbit, so-called on account of a signboard depicting a rabbit deftly stepping from a frying pan. Guess which bar he’s beckoning us to?Inventive and somewhat surreal, this comedy is set entirely inside of a bar, the Lapin Agile, in the Montmartre district of Paris.