{"product_id":"picasso-at-the-lapin-agile-and-other-plays-picasso-at-the-lapin-agile-the-zig-zag-woman-patter-for-a-floating-lady-wasp-paperback","title":"Picasso at the Lapin Agile and Other Plays: Picasso at the Lapin Agile, the Zig-Zag Woman, Patter for a Floating Lady, Wasp - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSteve Martin\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eSteve Martin is one of America's treasured comedic actors, having appeared in some of the most popular movies of our time. He is also an accomplished screenwriter who has for the past few years turned his attention to writing plays. The results, collected here, demonstrate new facets of the range and talent he possesses on screen. His plays hilariously explore very serious questions about love and happiness and the meaning of life; they are rich with equal parts pain and slapstick humor, torment and wit. Picasso at the Lapin Agile, 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. Picasso at the Lapin Agile and Other Plays contains three one-acts, first presented together at the Joseph Papp Public Theater in New York. WASP depicts 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, The Zig-Zag Woman concerns a woman so desperate to find affection that, with the help of a magic trick, she appears to divide her body into threeparts. In the final play, Patter for the Floating Lady, 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\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSteve Martin\u003c\/b\u003e is one of the most well-known talents in entertainment. His work has earned him an Academy Award, five Grammy Awards, an Emmy, the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, and the Kennedy Center Honors. As an author, Martin's work includes the novel \u003ci\u003eAn Object of Beauty\u003c\/i\u003e, the play \u003ci\u003ePicasso at the Lapin Agile\u003c\/i\u003e, the collection of comic pieces \u003ci\u003ePure Drivel\u003c\/i\u003e, the bestselling novella \u003ci\u003eShopgirl\u003c\/i\u003e, the cartoon collection \u003ci\u003eA Wealth of Pigeons with Harry Bliss\u003c\/i\u003e, and the memoir \u003ci\u003eBorn Standing Up\u003c\/i\u003e. Martin's films include The Jerk, Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Roxanne, Parenthood, L.A. Story, Father of the Bride, and Bowfinger.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 160\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.48 x 8.29 x 5.51 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 07, 1997\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53488699146547,"sku":"9780802135230","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/kDxzJjCmRv9780802135230.webp?v=1781518362","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/picasso-at-the-lapin-agile-and-other-plays-picasso-at-the-lapin-agile-the-zig-zag-woman-patter-for-a-floating-lady-wasp-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}