Picasso at the Lapin Agile

Picasso at the Lapin Agile was given its world-premiere in 1993, followed by a nearly six-month run, at Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre. The show went to New York and became a long-running off-Broadway hit. The first full-length play by comedian Steve Martin of stand-up and “Saturday Night Live” fame, Picasso reflects Martin’s absurdist style in a self-aware, self-referential, and anachronistic one-act comedy. Winner of the 1996 Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Off-Broadway Play, this

Freddy, owner of the Lapin Agile bar, tends to his customer, Gaston, an older regular at the establishment. A young Einstein–initially not recognized since he is not wearing his hair in the tell-tale loose way made famous by his future photos, and because he has entered out of order from the dramatis personae in the play’s program–comes into the bar for a date, scheduled at another establishment. He assures Gaston that the woman will surely arrive at the wrong bar, just as he has.

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