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Picasso at the Lapin Agile, comedian Steve Martin's 1996 take on the conundrums that the young geniuses Pablo Picasso and Albert Einstein might have faced, contains heterogeneous elements running from unabashed sexuality to out-landish predictions about the future, all presented in a sometimes comic, sometimes tragic mode. However, the play's overarching theme is the question of what the twentieth century holds in store for humankind. Watching this thought-provoking piece at the end of 1998, near the threshhold of the 21st century, is a most meaningful experience...
...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...
Edward Eaton and Shawn Elinoff's recent production of Picasso at the Lapin Agile, also directed by Eaton and produced through special arrangement with Dramatist Play Services, did a magnificent job of creating the ambiance of a bygone time and place. As the play was produced in an elegant Beacon Hill townhouse, audience and cast mingled in a way that supported the illusion that what was going to happen on stage was happening in the here and now. Due to the very nature of Picasso at the Lapin Agile, environmentalist theater worked perfectly...
...this age of millennium bugs, impeachment trials and ghosts of biological warfare, Picasso at the Lapin Agile takes us back to a gentler time, when the future was something to harness not something that would spin out of our hands, threatening to engulf our present civilization...
...Reddi-wip 1954, in aerosol can, by Bunnie Lapin...