The Fine Arts Department at Ozarks Technical Community College is presenting its first-ever spring play this coming weekend (April 12 &13th).

Jon Herbert, the play director and Bryant Turnage, O-T-C fine arts instructor joined Ozarks Today to talk about the production. The play is called "Picasso at the Lapin Agile" and it's written by Steve Martin.

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Here's more information from the OTC website, "In 'Picasso at the Lapin Agile', playwright Steve Martin-yes, THAT Steve Martin-delivers an imaginary meeting between Pablo Picasso and Albert Einstein in 1904 at the Lapin Agile (French for 'The Nimble Rabbit') a little bar in Paris known for its frequent visits by writers and artists. Taking place just a year before Einstein published his 'Special Theory of Relativity' and three years before Picasso introduced cubism with his 'Les Demoiselles d'Avignon,' the setting is full of anticipation of the 20th century's advent.

This absurd 'what if' comedy, a fusion of lightness, profundity, and silly wit, brings Picasso, Einstein, and a host of other characters together to consider the forces and interrelation of talent, genius, and commerce as they weigh the impact each might have on the future. If they only knew..... "