Dimensions
130 x 195 x 14mm
Steve Martin is one of America's most treasured actors. 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.
'Picasso At The Lapin Agile' imagines a meeting between Picasso and Einstein in 1904, when both men were in their twenties and on the verge of the breakthroughs that were about to stamp their names indelibly on the century. 'Wasp' depicts an archetypal nuclear family trying to live up to the routine of an idealised 50s suburbia. 'The Zig-Zag Woman' concerns a woman so desperate for affection that she appears to divide her body into three parts. In 'Patter for the Floating Lady' a magician's assistant - and lover - finds liberation through levitation.
