A Picasso
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SHOW INFORMATION
Opened Sep 9, 2010
Closed Oct 16, 2010
1hr. 15min.
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http://www.apicassoonstage.com
WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Paris, 1941. Pablo Picasso has been summoned from his favorite café by German occupation forces to a storage vault across the city for an interrogation. His questioner: Miss Fischer, a beautiful "cultural attaché" from Berlin. Her assignment: discover which of the three Picasso paintings recently "confiscated" by the Nazis from their Jewish owners are real. The ministry of propaganda has planned an exhibit, and only the great artist himself can attest to their authenticity. At first Picasso agrees to her request, confirming that the three pictures are indeed his own. But when Miss Fischer reveals that the "exhibition" is actually a burning of "degenerate art," Picasso becomes desperate to save his work and engages in a pressurized negotiation with the equally determined and wily Miss Fischer to hold on to two of his precious "children" while consigning the third to the flames. A cat-and-mouse drama about art, politics, sex and truth, with a twist at its climax.
"Artful, remarkable and genuinely dramatic, with impressive sensitivity and wit." --NY Daily News
"Sex, art, Nazis, and a classy twentieth-century icon, all wrapped up like a tasty cultural burrito. Expertly done." --Star-Ledger.
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RE:"A Picasso" at the Royce
Royce Gallery on Mariposa St. has yet another great production on stage through October 9. You really don?t want to miss ?A Picasso,? a tense and sexually charged drama set in a warehouse in Paris in 1941. Brittany Kilcoyne McGregor portrays the cool and cagey Miss Fisher, a Nazi interrogator trying to get Picasso Carlos Baron to renounce his art and condemn it to the fires of ?cultural cleansing.? At first she has the upper hand?he is her prisoner?but their intense sparring over the meaning and value of art leads to some surprising revelations that only deepen the drama. Written by Jeffery Hatcher, produced and ably directed by Andrey Esterlis.
by David Hirzel
davidhirzel.net
Reviewed by DavidHirzel
on Friday, Sep 24th, 2010
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