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Picasso at the Lapin AgileWritten by Steve Martin Directed by David Wheeler At the Hasty Pudding Theatre through June...
Instead of letting himself be remembered for his great comedy, Martin has taken on the tough project of writing a quasi-compendious retrospective of scientific and artistic thought since 1904. In Martin's debut as a playwright, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Albert Einstein (played by Thomas Derrah) shows up at the famous Montmartre bohemian artists' hang-out the Lapin Agile. While working out theorems and waiting for his date to show up, Einstein meets Picasso (Bill Camp) who stumbles in hoping to be noticed and admired. At first distant and confrontational, the two great minds turn their sparring into...
...many textbook summaries and sound too regurgitated to be more creative than didactic. Original characters have always been his fort, and here, again, they are at once brilliant and painfully funny. Will LeBow as the art dealer, Sagot (both real and reputedly a patron of the Lapin Agile), pompous, self-important and fake when it comes to anything but buying and selling, lights up the stage with every appearance. Leslie Beatty as Germaine, the waitress, is sassy and direct and knows how to handle piggish men such as Picasso...
...drag on the ticket, he did not even have the most stage time. it's Einstein who is the real hero and mouthpiece of the play. Einstein's voice rings the clearest and strongest throughout, while Picasso remains boorish and dull. But who would go see Einstein at the Lapin Agile? In addition, Martin would be much better off losing his dumb seventies throw-back sex jokes, rather than trying to put a twist on the average, middle-school fiction writing project...
...20th century works will also help flesh out the Met's skeletal early- Modernist collection. The Annenberg paintings include a very fine Georges Braque studio interior from 1939, and At the Lapin Agile, Picasso's self- portrait as Harlequin at the bar of a Montmartre dive. This souvenir of lost bohemia cost Annenberg $40.7 million at auction...