The Frugal Repast
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Feb 7, 2007
Closed Feb 25, 2007
Opened Feb 7, 2007
Closed Feb 25, 2007
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Running Time:
1hr. 30min.
1hr. 30min.
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Abingdon Theatre Company presents Ron Hirsen's The Frugal Repast, a thought-provoking new play about a Picasso print that sets off a lively debate within the art world. Joe Grifasi directs.
Two impoverished circus performers - unknowingly the subjects of Picasso's limited edition print - see a copy on display in a Paris gallery. Their outrage at the great artist's invasion of their privacy (and their personal desperation) leads them to steal it. The ransom note asks for a thousand francs - and fuels Picasso, Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas and other real-life significant art-world figures to debate what, exactly, is art's true value. A lively and inspiring new play selected for the 2004 Eugene O'Neill Playwrights and Musical Theatre Conference.
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"If those women aren't your typical bourgeois housewives, I don't know who they are," a character says in Ron Hirsen's new one-act,
The Frugal Repast, now at the Abingdon Theatre Company. The pair of passers-by prompting the observation happen to be the famous Paris-based lovers Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, so you immediately understand the sly sense of humor the playwright exhibits in his entertaining but brief piece about how tricky it is to assign a value to art.
At that moment, Stein (Lizbeth Mackay) and Toklas (Julie Boyd) are on their way to one of their frequent dinners with visionary art dealer Ambroise Vollard (David Wohl) and poet/art critic Guillaume Apollinaire (Frank [...]