By Steve Martin Directed by Barry Edelstein. Picasso at the Lapin Agile, by American humorist Steve Martin, imagines a meeting between Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso just before the renowned scientist transformed physics with his theory of relativity and the celebrated painter sets the art world afire with cubism. Everything in this set is also very small because it was in Harrison Gordon as Gaston! Picasso at the Lapin Agile. James Graham as Einstein! It was an honor and privilege to have the opportunity to once again visit an old friend, Steve Martin’s Picasso at the Lapin Agile.. My first encounter with this play took place in 1993 at Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre where I served as the lighting designer for the play’s world premiere. Notice the old fashioned and vintage wood as portrayed in my set. Isabel Richardson as Suzanne! Yea, the "wild and crazy guy from Saturday Night Live." See more ideas about Picasso, Restaurant new york and Sheep paintings. The woman represents his lover Germaine Pichot, formerly the obsession of Carlos Casagemas, a friend of Picasso who committed suicide in 1901 because of an unreturned love for Pichot. Tyler Stoltenberg as Freddy! Au Lapin Agile is a 1905 painting by Pablo Picasso. Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Theatre, Productions, Plays, 2003, 2000s The destitute outcasts featured in Picasso's Blue Period gave way, in 1905, to circus performers and harlequins in more colorful settings. Picasso at the Lapin Agile, suggests a mythical meeting between Picasso, Albert Einstein and a strange visitor from the future. In “Picasso at the Lapin Agile,” his play now at the Long Wharf Theater in New Haven, Steve Martin finds a balance of silliness and seriousness. Daniel Lazar as Sagot! The harlequin is a self-portrait of the artist. How to spark the interest of the audience: Bring two (or more) historical figures together for the first time. PICASSO AT THE LAPIN AGILE Written by Steve Martin Directed by Evyn Williams Produced by Kim Lewis THE CAST Reed Wilson as Picasso! Steve Martin (yes, that Steve Martin) must have wrestled with these ideas as he penned the fictitious encounter between Picasso and Einstein in his play, Picasso at the Lapin Agile. Stephanie Ward as Germaine! Will Crouse as “The Visitor”! Plays such as Picasso at the Lapin Agile belong to a genre all their own. Picasso at the Lapin Agile and Other Plays contains three one-acts, first presented together at the Joseph Papp Public Theater in New York. The two celebrities of science and art spar for their fields, surrounded by a cast of supporting characters from the turn of the century and beyond. Outside of France, though, Au Lapin Agile Cabaret may be known more for a play by an American artist, Steve Martin. Keywords. WASP depicts an archetypal middle-class white Anglo-Saxon Protestant family trying to live up to the routine of an idealized fifties suburbia. CRITIC'S CHOICE "Artful comedy—a crisp and satisfying revival! The two young geniuses, joined by an eccentric cast of characters, spar over art and science, their respective libidos, where inspiration comes from, and the promise and dreams of … Set in France in 1904, the stage is a French bar called the Lapin Agile, with the action of the plot involving the characters who come into the bar …