Picasso at the Lapin Agile and Other Plays
by:
Steve Martin (author)
Steve 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...
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Steve 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.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780802135230 (0802135234)
ASIN: 802135234
Publish date: August 7th 1997
Publisher: Grove Press
Pages no: 150
Edition language: English
Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso walk into a bar where they meet the spirit of the twentieth century and he is neither one of them. Also there are jokes. The strongest piece in the collection is Patter for the Floating Lady, a 10 page one scene play in which a magician and his assistant perform t...
Einstein: I work the same way. I make beautiful things with a pencil.Picasso: You? Youʻre just a scientist! For me, the shortest distance between two points is not a straight line!Einstein: Likewise.Picasso (still dancing): Letʼs see one of your creations.(Einstein pulls out a pencil. Picasso stops ...
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