Desire Caught by the Tail. A Play in Six Acts by Pablo Picasso. (Programme with Clippings)

PICASSO, Pablo and Roland Penrose

Verlag: London: Thameside Production (The Watergate Theatre), 1950

Beschreibung

First Edition. Quarto. Written feverishly across three days in occupied Paris, Picasso's first play received a rather honoured first reading at the house of Michel Leiris, where it was directed by Albert Camus, with a cast including Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Raymond Queneau. In October 1950, the British Surrealist Roland Penrose translated the play for a two-week run at London's Watergate Theatre. With this programme for the production, Penrose offered a 6 pp. introduction for the audience, addressing the inter-arts tradition in which Picasso was working, the history of the play's development and reception, and an an analysis of its potency. "Language has been forced into a state of instability and like a spring uncoils with violence, hitting out on all sides as it is released. What style could be more suitable to Picasso in expressing the rage, the anxiety, and the nostalgia of Paris occupied by the Nazis during the depths of the blackest winter of the war?"This copy accompanied by 11 contemporary newspaper clippings, in which the Watergate production was savagely reviewed by critics; one of these reviews capturing two photographs from a performance. Illustrated wrappers with short closed tear, else near fine. Press clippings with annotations. Scarce; with only a single OCLC record located (British Library). Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 29385

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Desire Caught by the Tail. A Play in Six ...

Verlag: London: Thameside Production (The Watergate Theatre)

Erscheinungsdatum: 1950

Einband: Softcover

Auflage: 1. Auflage