{"product_id":"picasso-at-the-lapin-agile-and-other-plays-9780802135230","title":"Picasso at the Lapin Agile and Other Plays","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFour plays from the beloved comedian whose “comic wit has never been sharper.” (\u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSteve Martin is one of America's most treasured actors, having appeared in some of the most popular moves of our time. He is also an accomplished screenwriter who has in the past few years turned his hand to writing plays. The results, collected here, hilariously explore serious questions of love, happiness and the meaning of life; they are rich with equal parts of pain and slapstick humour, torment and wit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePicasso at the Lapin Agile\u003c\/i\u003e, Steve Martin’s first full-length play, opened at Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theater before moving on to Los Angeles (where it was the longest-running show in the history of the Westwood Playhouse) and, finally, to New York. An imagined meeting of Pablo Picasso and Albert Einstein in 1904—when both men were in their twenties—it is a compelling examination of science and art and their impact on a rapidly changing society. As the two men engage in a battle of ideas about probability, lust, artistic integrity, and the future, the play moves with ease between the breezy and the profound.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePicasso at the Lapin Agile and Other Plays\u003c\/i\u003e also contains three one-acts, first presented together at the Joseph Papp Public Theater in New York. \u003ci\u003eWASP \u003c\/i\u003edepicts an archetypal middle-class white Anglo-Saxon Protestant family trying to live up to the routine of an idealized fifties suburbia. It is a dark and surreal comedy—a broad satire punctuated with insightful and poetic moments of irony. A meditation on the nature of love and loneliness, \u003ci\u003eThe Zig-Zag Woman\u003c\/i\u003e concerns a woman so desperate to find affection that, with the help of a magic trick, she appears to divide her body into three parts. In the final play, \u003ci\u003ePatter for the Falling Lady\u003c\/i\u003e, a magician plans to levitate his assistant in order to give her what he could not give her when they were together: freedom.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Steve Martin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42955813879926,"sku":"9780802135230","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0671\/1374\/6550\/files\/CoreSourceHub_2f6b70ce-8bb9-4098-9563-96a783f55582.jpg?v=1773522095","url":"https:\/\/ingramacademic.com\/products\/picasso-at-the-lapin-agile-and-other-plays-9780802135230","provider":"Ingram Academic \u0026 Professional","version":"1.0","type":"link"}