Picasso at the Lapin Agile: The Future Is Relative
New Rep’s beautifully designed and perfectly acted production of Steve Martin’s mercurial comedy looks at the future from different perspectives, rendering Picasso’s art and Einstein’s science as two sides of the same life-altering coin.
In Picasso at the Lapin Agile, talented actor, comedian, writer, and SNL alum Steve Martin has fashioned a mercurial, heady and intelligent comedy that weaves its way in and out of time as agilely as the rabbit in its title might bound across the beautiful French countryside. 
Supposing what it might be like if visionary young geniuses Pablo Picasso and Albert Einstein were to meet in a bohemian Parisian café at the turn of the 20th century, Martin engages his characters in a sharp philosophical debate that ultimately leads the artistic and scientific adversaries to discover surprising common ground.
New Rep’s beautifully designed and perfectly acted production captures all the flair and flavor of Martin’s piquant script, serving up 75 uninterrupted minutes of smart and sassy humor. But in addition to Martin’s patented quick-witted joke-making, Lapin Agile possesses an almost cosmic aesthetic that celebrates through clever analysis and droll wordplay the life-altering impact that both Einstein and Picasso had on modern civilization.
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PHOTO by Andrew Brilliant: Neil A. Casey as Einstein, Scott Sweatt as Picasso
