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Word from Plumpfoot. Picasso's play has just opened in a pocket-sized, experimental Viennese theater. It was written in 1941, but has rarely been performed (a literarily distinguished cast headed by Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir once gave it a formal reading under Albert Camus' direction in Paris). Its title, Le Désir Attrapé par la Queue, comes out Wie man Wünsche beim Schwanz packt in German, which more or less means "How to Catch a Wish by the Tail." Described as a surrealistic carnival revue, Artist Picasso's play...
...sprinkle the rice powder of angels on the soiled bed sheets," says Plumpfoot at the final curtain, "and turn the mattresses through blackberry bushes! All lanterns lighted! And with all power the pigeon flocks dash into the rifle bullets! And in all bombed houses, the keys turn twice around in the locks!" "Diffuse and absurd," wrote Vienna's Express, "grotesque and bacchantic...
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