LINDSAY GYMNASIUM-- Wayland thespians traditionally struggle with the dual responsibilities of being both actors and students. The busy schedule is a perennial difficulty, no less this year as the troupe prepares for their November performance of \"Picasso at the Lapin Agile.\"
Director Mr. McDonnell attested that \"It is hard to find time to practice thus making it hard to build chemistry between the actors. They pretty much have their lines memorized, but it can be hard getting their lines out when interacting with each other.\" The connection between actors is difficult to establish, the English teacher explains, when they learn their lines in isolation from the other actors. Each individual develops a certain way of acting out the scene. When the cast comes together, these different expectations emerge and conflict.
Nevertheless, Mr. McDonnell is excited about the performance. He said, \"The actors and actresses have a lot of talent.\"
In the end, he said, \"The play will come together. It always does.\"
In regards to the theme of the play, Mr. McDonnell remarked \"It is an exploration of art and science and the process from which great ideas come.\"
\"Picasso at the Lapin Agile\" will premier November 2nd and 3rd onstage in the Lindsay gym.
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Cast in Order of Appearance:
Freddy, the owner and bartender of the Lapin Agile
Gaston, an older man
Germaine, waitress and Freddy's girlfriend
Albert Einstein, age twenty-five
Suzanne, nineteen
Sagot, Picasso's art dealer
Pablo Picasso, age twenty-three
Charles Dabernow Schmendimann, a young man
The Countess
A female admirer
A visitor
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Compleatsteve.com gives the following history:
\"Picasso at the Lapin Agile was Steve Martin's first play. Workshopped in Australia, it was produced first in Chicago. It subsequently played in New York City and San Francisco, and has been performed all over the country by small theater companies.\"
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Chapelstreetplayers.org lends the following summary:
\"Steve Martin imagines a meeting between a young Albert Einstein and a young Picasso in a bar in Paris in 1904, on the eve of the discoveries that will put their names in lights and shape the 20th century. In the bar they also find the beginnings of feminism, the sexual revolution, and the king of rock and roll. Vincent Canby of the NY Times called it 'a shaggy dog of a comedy…[that] succeeds in being low comedy fun while also suggesting that a great scientist and a great artist share a rarified sense of beauty.'”
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The following is a quote from the play itself, when Freddy makes a prediction about the first decade of the 20th century from the perspective of 1904:
\"Led by Germany, this will be known as the century of peace. Clothes will be made of wax. There will be a craze for automobiles but it will pass. The French will be the military might of Europe. Everyone will be doing a new dance called the toad.\"";"LINDSAY GYMNASIUM-- Wayland thespians traditionally struggle with the dual responsibilities of being both actors and students. The busy schedule is a perennial difficulty, no less this year as the troupe prepares for their November performance of \"Picasso at the Lapin Agile.\"
Director Mr. McDonnell attested that \"It is hard to find time to practice thus making it hard to build chemistry between the actors. They pretty much have their lines memorized, but it can be hard getting their lines out when interacting with each other.\" The connection between actors is difficult to establish, the English teacher explains, when they learn their lines in isolation from the other actors. Each individual develops a certain way of acting out the scene. When the cast comes together, these different expectations emerge and conflict.
Nevertheless, Mr. McDonnell is excited about the performance. He said, \"The actors and actresses have a lot of talent.\"
In the end, he said, \"The play will come together. It always does.\"
In regards to the theme of the play, Mr. McDonnell remarked \"It is an exploration of art and science and the process from which great ideas come.\"
\"Picasso at the Lapin Agile\" will premier November 2nd and 3rd onstage in the Lindsay gym.
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Cast in Order of Appearance:
Freddy, the owner and bartender of the Lapin Agile
Gaston, an older man
Germaine, waitress and Freddy's girlfriend
Albert Einstein, age twenty-five
Suzanne, nineteen
Sagot, Picasso's art dealer
Pablo Picasso, age twenty-three
Charles Dabernow Schmendimann, a young man
The Countess
A female admirer
A visitor
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Compleatsteve.com gives the following history:
\"Picasso at the Lapin Agile was Steve Martin's first play. Workshopped in Australia, it was produced first in Chicago. It subsequently played in New York City and San Francisco, and has been performed all over the country by small theater companies.\"
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Chapelstreetplayers.org lends the following summary:
\"Steve Martin imagines a meeting between a young Albert Einstein and a young Picasso in a bar in Paris in 1904, on the eve of the discoveries that will put their names in lights and shape the 20th century. In the bar they also find the beginnings of feminism, the sexual revolution, and the king of rock and roll. Vincent Canby of the NY Times called it 'a shaggy dog of a comedy…[that] succeeds in being low comedy fun while also suggesting that a great scientist and a great artist share a rarified sense of beauty.'”
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The following is a quote from the play itself, when Freddy makes a prediction about the first decade of the 20th century from the perspective of 1904:
\"Led by Germany, this will be known as the century of peace. Clothes will be made of wax. There will be a craze for automobiles but it will pass. The French will be the military might of Europe. Everyone will be doing a new dance called the toad.\"";"LINDSAY GYMNASIUM-- Wayland thespians traditionally struggle with the dual responsibilities of being both actors and students. The busy schedule is a perennial difficulty, no less this year as the troupe prepares for their November performance of \"Picasso at the Lapin Agile.\"
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