Picasso at the Lapin Agile By Steve Martin
Picasso at the Lapin Agile By Steve Martin
Picasso at the Lapin Agile By Steve Martin
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(This pleases her. She takes an article of clothing out of<br />
her bag. She turns her back to <strong>the</strong> audience and unbuttons her<br />
blouse, but before she takes it off, she stop and speaks first to<br />
Freddy)<br />
Suzanne: Look away. (Then to Einstein) You look away too. (She<br />
looks <strong>at</strong> Gaston.) I guess you‘re okay. (She takes off her blouse,<br />
revealing a black bra underne<strong>at</strong>h, and puts on a new, sexier top.)<br />
Okay.<br />
Gaston: darn!<br />
(They all turn. She sits <strong>at</strong> a table and waits)<br />
Freddy: Wh<strong>at</strong>‘s <strong>the</strong> m<strong>at</strong>ter?<br />
Gaston: Now I have to consider everything, I‘m wearing today to<br />
be lucky. Every time I go out now, it‘s ―not without my lucky h<strong>at</strong>,<br />
not without my lucky co<strong>at</strong>, not without my lucky shirt.‖<br />
Suzanne: I‘d like some wine.<br />
Germaine: Any special color?<br />
Suzanne: Red please.<br />
(Germaine gets <strong>the</strong> wine from FREDDY.)<br />
Germaine: Do you know <strong>Picasso</strong>?<br />
Suzanne: Twice<br />
Germaine: Is he expecting you?<br />
Suzanne (as in ―of course‖): I think he‘s expecting to see me.<br />
Einstein: Who is this <strong>Picasso</strong>?<br />
Germaine, Freddy, and Suzanne: He‘s a painter…<br />
Freddy: He‘s a painter or says he‘s one. I‘ve never seen his<br />
paintings, only wh<strong>at</strong> he says. Nuts about blue, <strong>the</strong>y say.