Word: einstein
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...copy of a film star, baseball player or scientist, depending on their interests. But because personality is only partly the result of genetic inheritance, conflict would be sure to arise if the cloned child failed to develop the same interests as the original. What if the copy of Einstein shows no interest in science? Or the football player turns to acting? Success also depends upon fortune. What of the child who does not live up to the hopes and dreams of the parent simply because of bad luck...
Picasso and Einstein--both on the verge of having fame thrust upon their shoulders--are young men as hopeful as they are insecure, in many ways a reflection of our very selves as we too struggle with the dawning of the second millennium. The audience can identify not only with Picasso and Einstein, but with many other quirky characters congregating at the Lapin Agile, that famous Parisian bar which Picasso and Einstein, so we are told, patronized faithfully in their youth...
...performance as the would-be genius Schmendiman, inventor of some rather bizarre (and useless) creations. Green stole the show, providing some needed comic relief. He kept the audience laughing with his portrayal of the bold, overly confident Schmendiman--a perfect foil to the more thoughtful and modest Picasso and Einstein, who are destined to become the "true" geniuses...
...Einstein, Edward Hightower was well-cast as the slightly naive, thoughtful Einstein. As the more flamboyant Picasso, Shawn Elinoff, 1996 Artist-in-Residence for the Hyperion Shakespeare Company, shone: the Picasso he embodied was complex, filled with bitterness, insecurity and lust but most of all, a passion for his artistic vision...
...Porter McDonald as the sweet and not particularly bright bartender Freddy, and Douglas W. Horner, a musical theater major at the Boston Conservatory, who played "the Visitor," easily recognizable as Elvis Presley. One of the best scenes is the final one, when The King is juxtaposed with Picasso and Einstein...