Picasso Form
Title:PICASSO AT THE LAPIN AGILE
Playwright: Steve Martin
Show Dates: 9/24, 9/25, 9/26, 10/1. 10/2, 10/3, 10/4
Matinee/s:9/28
Performance Time/s:
Setting or Synopsis of Scenes (if applicable):
A bar in Paris, 1904. One year later, Albert Einstein published the Special Theory of Relativity. Three years later, Pablo Picasso painted "Les Demoiselles D'Avignon."
Cast in Order of Appearance:
Character name: Freddy
Actor/Actress name: Robert McLeroy
Character name: Gaston
Actor/Actress name: Marcus Clement
Character name: Germaine
Actor/Actress name: Emily Stephens
Character name: Albert Einstein
Actor/Actress name: Chase Cox
Character name: Suzanne
Actor/Actress name: Kristen Woods
Character name: Sagot
Actor/Actress name: Jonathan Smith
Character name: Pablo Picasso
Actor/Actress name: John Tourtellotte
Character name: Charles Dabernow Schmendiman
Actor/Actress name: Jim Taylor
Character name: The Countess
Actor/Actress name: Laura Smith
Character name: A Female Admirer
Actor/Actress name: Sarah Barnes
Character name: A Visitor
Actor/Actress name: Payne Hopton-Jones
Artistic Staff
Director: Scott Phillips
Choreographer: Adrienne Wilson
Voice, Dialect or Text coach: Daydrie Hague
Scene Designer: Pip Gordon
Costume Designer: Tracy Oleinick
Lighting Designer: Pip Gordon
Assistant Lighting Designer: Stewart Ives
Make-Up Designer: Katie George
Sound designers: Robin Jaffe and Kelly Walker
Technical Director: Adriane Bennett
Production Manager: Robin Jaffe
Production Staff
Stage Manager: Becky Reed
Assistant Stage Managers: Marc Dolan, Marge Malone
Wardrobe Supervisor: Shannon Dunlalp
Make-up Supervisor: Katie George
Make-up and Wardrobe Running Crew: Bridget Knapik, Mallory Porter
Master Electrician: Richard Davis
Light Board Operator: Richard Davis
Electrics Crew: Richard Davis, George Washburn, O. Kenyon Corbitt, Matt Raines, Chris Eckhardt, Shannon Dunlap,
Allyson Schlegel, Katie Duffin, Christopher Eckhardt
Sound Board Operator: Christopher Eckhardt
Properties Master: Briana Windham
Properties Running Crew: Courtney Labosky, Kelly Holcomb
Scenic Studio
Scenic Studio Carpenter: Victoria Bayens*
Scenic Studio Assistant: Drew Holden*, Chris Mills, Briana Windham, Kelly Cochran, Derrick Spivey, Becky Reed
Scenic Studio Crew: Marcus Clement, Kenyon Otis, Richard Davis, Maya Dowdell, Katie Duffin,Shannon Dunlap, Christopher Eckhardt, Katie George, Elizabeth Johnson,
Courtney Labosky, Michael Leigh, Jeffrey Loddo*, Margaret Malone, Alyce Noland,Brooke Peace, Matt Raines, Kara Riley, Jaylin Robinson, Emily Rourke, Tiffany Rozier,
Allyson Schlegel, Brooke Spivey, Samantha Sweatman, Alexis Tyson, George Washburn, Briana Windham, Kristen Woods, Emily Dramer, Fred T. Paul, Emily Stephens,
Kylee Wofford. Lauren Hunt, John Tourtellotte, Chase Cox, Paul Anton, Mallory Benard, Antonio Fortson, Kat Grilli, Stewart Ives, Ashley Priselac, Jim Taylor, Marc Dolan,
Kelly Holcomb, Eli Jolley, Houston Mahoney, Jordyn Culreth, Ben Young, Lydia Townsend
Costume Studio:
Costume Studio Manager: Kaitlin Fara Smith
Costume Studio Assistants: Alyce Nolan, Katie George
Costume Crew: Shannon Dunlap, Bridget Knapik, Alyce Noland, Mallory Porter, Rachel Stewart, Elizabeth Ard,
Kristin Hopkins, Laura Smith, Stephen Davis, Katie George, Kara Riley, Heather Rule, Carley Hubbard, Monica Bland,
Cornelius Benson, Marcus Clement, Antonio Forlson, April Hall, Katherine Noland, John Tourtellotte, Brianna Windam,
Kylee Wofford, Jamie Yates, Brandi Byrd, Kristine Fitzgerald, Elizabeth Johnson, Mary Landwehr, Megan Mayfield,
Kathryn Perry, Emily Rourke, Jennifer Russel, Samantha Sweatman, Mary Ireland, Deonna West
Administrative Staff
Marketing Director: Linda Wallner Bell
Office Administrator: Zandra Davis
Office Student Staff: Monica Bland, Katie Shade*, Heather Rule
Ticket Office Manager: Marjorie Teeter
House Manager: Jenise Velez
Ticket Office Crew: Darci Dickey, Mallory Hammond, Trent Kinnucan, Dawn Reese, LaShawn Wright
Director's Notes:
“There’s a moment coming,” Picasso tells us at one point in Steve Martin’s Picasso at the Lapin Agile. “I can feel it.”
Sitting in that famous Paris watering hole in 1904, Picasso could well have sensed that something big was about to happen. The Lapin Agile (or “Nimble Rabbit’ in English) was (and still is) a fixture of the Montmartre section of Paris—at the time a dirty, run-down, and somewhat crime-ridden neighborhood frequented by artists, freethinkers and bohemians attracted by the low rents and the easy credit that was often extended by the neighborhood pub-keepers. By 1904, the reaction against realism in painting had become firmly established, and the short-lived Fauvist movement (1900-1910), embraced by artists such as Henri Matisse and André Derain, represented the cutting edge of the fine arts. But in 1907, Picasso would paint Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, one of the most influential works of the twentieth century, and his first full-fledged foray into Cubism. It was a transformative moment for the European Avant-Garde and for modernism.
Physics, too, was about to enter a period of revolutionary change. As recently as 1894, the physicist Albert Michelson had gone so far as to declare that the “grand underlying principles” of physics had mostly been discovered. There were a few small details concerning the motion of light and the properties of radiation, but surely these were minor obstacles that would be easily addressed. By 1905, however, Albert Einstein would upend the classical Newtonian view of space and time with the publication of “On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies,” his treatise on special relativity. As Brian Greene has written, special relativity showed how “features of space and time that for many of us are second nature have turned out to be figments of a false Newtonian perspective.”
So for Steve Martin, Einstein and Picasso are the twin poles of the twentieth century. They almost certainly never met in Paris in 1904—Einstein was working in a patent office in Bern at the time--but what if they had? Martin’s imaginative exercise is not realistic, but a fanciful flight of the sort one might expect from a playwright who began his comedy career appearing in front of audiences with an arrow through his head. Picasso at the Lapin Agile is an unpretentious and goofily anachronistic fantasia on artistic and scientific creativity-- about two guys who, in 1904, had good reasons to consider themselves as failures (there is a third guy in the play who completes Martin’s triangle of genius, but his identity is a surprise). In 1904 Einstein was working through his thought experiments on space and time and Picasso on his proto-cubist sketches. Both men, we may imagine, might well have sensed that something exciting and new was about to emerge and old assumptions redrawn. The twentieth century was about to break wide open.
Scott Phillips
Director
Picasso at the Lapin Agile
Special Thanks:
Kelly Walker, Sign World, Linda Bell
Acknowledgements:
Cast & Crew Bios:
Sarah Barnes (Admirer) is a Freshman this year at Auburn majoring in pre-pharmacy. She is thrilled to be appearing in her first production on the Auburn stage.
Marcus Clement (Gaston) is a sophomore Theatre major appearing in his second AU Theatre production. Marcus is grateful to the theatre department and everyone in it for their support and teaching.
Chase Cox (Einstein) is a junior theatre major appearing in his first AU Theatre production. While he is a veteran student, he is new to the major and hopes to spend an additional year finishing the degree.
Richard Davis (Master Electrician) is a junior music theatre major with recent AU Theatre appearances in Women & Love and Little Shop of Horrors.
Marc Dolan (assistant stage manager), is a freshman BA in Theatre; this is Marc's first show at Auburn University and he hopes to have many more!!
Payne Hopton-Jones (The Singer) is a junior music theatre major at Auburn, and Picasso at the Lapin Agile marks his seventh production on the mainstage. He would like to thank his family, friends, and faculty for their support.
Stew Ives (Assistant Lighting Designer), is a junior in the BFA Design / Tech program. Picasso marks his twelfth show with Auburn University Theatre.
Marge Malone (Assistant Stage Manager) is a freshman in Auburn's Theatre program. This is her first production here at Auburn and her second production ever. She thanks everyone who has helped her figure out how things work around here.
Robert McLeroy (Freddy) is a senior from Columbiana, Alabama majoring in Radio/Television/Film. Picasso at the Lapin Agile is Robert's third mainstage performance. Other credits include A Midsummer Night's Dream and Little Shop of Horrors.
Becky Reed (Stage Manager), is a junior in the BFA Stage Management program; Picasso at the Lapin Agile marks the third show that she has stage managed here at Auburn. She would like to thank the faculty for all of their guidance and support.
Jonathan Smith (Sagot) is a newcomer to the Auburn stage. He hails from Donalsonville, GA where he has appeared in numerous plays.
Laura Smith (Countess) is a junior theatre performance major. She is more than ecstatic to be performing in her first show at Auburn. She would like to thank her family for their constant support, and as always she dedicates her performance to Kathryn, her sister.
Emily Stephens (Germaine) is a junior theatre performance major. Picasso at the Lapin Agile is the second main stage performance for the Auburn native. She would like to thank the faculty and her parents for all of their guidance and support.
Jim Taylor (Schmendiman), is a junior theatre major. Picasso at the Lapin Agile is his third mainstage AU Theatre production. He thanks the faculty for their guidance and support.
John Tourtellotte (Picasso) is a sophomore music theatre major. Picasso at the Lapin Agile is his fourth mainstage performance at Auburn. He would like to thank his friends, family and the faculty for all their support and guidance.
Jenise Velez (House Manager) is a Musical Theatre major. Picasso at the Lapin Agile is the second show that she has house managed here at Auburn. She was last seen onstage in Midsummer Nights Dream. She would like to thank her family and the faculty for all the support and guidance.
Briana Windham (Properties Master) , is a sophomore Theatre Major; Picasso at the Lapin Agile is the third show she has had the opportunity to work on at Auburn and the first as Properties Master.
Kristen Woods (Suzanne) is a junior Music Theatre major. Picasso at the Lapin Agile marks her 8th mainstage production with AU Theatre. Kristen is thrilled to be a member of such a wonderful ensemble.
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