Word: picasso
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...number of weeks ago, someone on the production staff of Picasso at the Lapin Agile made an interesting decision. Rather than using the standard Loeb Ex audience chairs, the production staff hauled up whatever seating material they could find in the HRDCs large props room-reclining chairs, sofas, pillow cushions. Artistically, the decision complimented the show nicely. Set in a cozy neighborhood bar, Picasso at the Lapin Agile invites the audience to share off stage the comfort and warmth that its characters find on stage. But from a larger perspective, the decision to make the audience as comfortable as possible...
...equate a few cushions in the Loeb Ex with the two-century-long death of interesting dramatic work in England would be somewhat overstating the point. The problem that Picasso's original seating design highlights is not an absence of creative talent in the Harvard theater scene. Rather, it highlights an absence of exposure. Like almost any activity at any university, undergraduate theater at Harvard has a fairly static collection of adherents. The same set of people see most of the shows on campus-and they are the same set of people who help produce (or are close friends with...
...passing scene. Here are French waiters "working like acrobats" at a dinner Ravelstein throws for Chick at an exclusive Paris restaurant. Here is Chick on Ravelstein's notoriously messy eating habits: "An experienced hostess would have spread newspapers under his chair." Here is Ravelstein amused, laughing "like Picasso's wounded horse in Guernica, rearing back." Such indelible impressions are the stuff of art, not gossip...
...paintings in Kelly M. McVearry's exhibit look like the work of a professional. Each of them is different--one a rendering of Botticelli's "Birth of Venus" in the style of Picasso; another an impressionistic treatment of the National Cathedral. The forms are precise and detailed; even the canvases are stretched expertly. She has received offers from strangers to buy them...
...Afraid to admit you actually like Saturday Night Live because it's not highbrow enough? Then head over to the Loeb Experimental Theater for Picasso at the Lapin Agile by famous funnyman Steve Martin. The time is 1904, and the place is a more-than-slightly offbeat Parisian tavern called the Lapin Agile. Einstein and Picasso spend their time arguing about who is going to be a greater genuis and whether science or art is superior, as well as interacting with a host of comical characters. Performances are Thursday through Saturday at 7:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday...