Event Details
A one-act, two-character play by Jeffrey Hatcher.
In 1941, during World War II, the famous Spanish artist Pablo Picasso, who has spent most of his creative life in France, is summoned to a Paris bank vault in which are stored works of art “confiscated” by the Nazis from their mainly Jewish owners. Miss Fischer, a beautiful German art expert appointed by the regime, has been instructed to interrogate Picasso about the authenticity of three of his unsigned artworks, one of which he has subsequently to choose to be exhibited before it is burned in Berlin in a public demonstration of “degenerate art”.
This is something most artists would find unthink-able but, understandably, all the more so for someone the standing of Picasso. An intriguing game of cat and mouse ensues, with each trying to outwit
the other, their brilliant exchanges ranging from art and politics to sex and – ultimately – truth, culminating in a dramatic twist.
There will be an Opening Gala from 5.30pm-6.30pm (with a catering supplement of $20 per person) on 21 May in The Homestead (next door to Nelson Theatre) followed by a performance of "A Picasso" from 7pm-8.30pm which will act as a fundraiser for Cranford Hospice with ticket sales being donated to them.
