Picasso at the Lapin Agile and Other Plays: Picasso at the Lapin Agile, The Zig-Zag Woman, Patter for a Floating Lady, WASP

by Steve Martin

Overview

Steve Martin is one of America's most treasured actors, having appeared in some of the most popular moves of our time. He is also an accomplished screenwriter who has in the past few years turned his hand to writing plays. The results, collected here, hilariously explore serious questions of love, happiness and the meaning of life; they are rich with equal parts of pain and slapstick humour, torment and wit.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780802135230
Publisher:	Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Publication date:	08/07/1997
Edition description:	1 PBK ED
Pages:	160
Sales rank:	489,138
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Steve Martin is one of the most well–known talents in entertainment. His work has earned him an Academy Award, five Grammy Awards, an Emmy, the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, and the Kennedy Center Honors. As an author, Martin's work includes the novel An Object of Beauty, the play Picasso at the Lapin Agile, the collection of comic pieces Pure Drivel, the bestselling novella Shopgirl, the cartoon collection A Wealth of Pigeons with Harry Bliss, and the memoir Born Standing Up. Martin's films include The Jerk, Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Roxanne, Parenthood, L.A. Story, Father of the Bride, and Bowfinger.

Hometown:

Beverly Hills, California

Date of Birth:

August 14, 1945

Place of Birth:

Waco, Texas

Education:

Long Beach State College; University of California, Los Angeles

Website:

http://www.stevemartin.com

Editorial Reviews

“Steve Martin’s comic wit has never been sharper.”—USA Today

“Steve Martin is the most exciting new playwright in town. . . . His first play is a major treat.”—Newsday

“[Picasso at the Lapin Agile is] a very engaging 75-minute shaggy dog of a comedy . . . Mr. Martin has also created a number of moment of real humor and wit. . . . His manner is to so mix the sublime with the ridiculous that they can’t be easily disentangled.”—Vincent Canby, The New York Times

“Steve Martin is a gifted screenplay writer, and as Picasso demonstrated, a smart, facile thinker with a serious reach.”—Variety

“Picasso at the Lapin Agile is Martin’s poker-faced—and very funny—riff on the birth of the modern century.”—New York

“More laughs, more fun and more delight than anything currently on the New York stage.”—The New York Observer

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