Picasso at the Lapin Agile Picasso at the Lapin Agile Picasso at the Lapin Agile is a full-length play written by American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and musician Steve Martin in 1993. The play features the characters of Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso, who meet at a bar called the Lapin Agile (French: "Nimble Rabbit") in Montmartre, Paris. It is set on October 8, 1904, and both men are on the verge of disclosing amazing ideas (Einstein will publish his special theory of relativity in 1905 and Picasso will paint "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" in 1907). At the Lapin Agile, they have a lengthy debate about
The Nature of Truth way Richard Wright's "Native Son" is a thriller. And it's an erudite reader's novel in the way of Philip Roth's "The Human Stain" is. Troncoso's work places the reader on a knife's edge of suspense, while challenging the reader to examine and question "The [very] Nature of Truth", whether that truth be racially defined, intellectually constructed, or a scepter rising from ancient ideals of right and wrong... Troncoso's "The Nature of Truth" informs his mature works—"From This Wicked Patch of Dust" and ""—as they examine the ideas of borders, their permeability, and their dualistic nature of the real and the