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Georgetown University’s Mask and Bauble Dramatic Society will perform Steve Martin’s award-winning play, “Picasso at the Lapin Agile,” at The Theatre at Washington on Saturday, Oct. 26 at 8 p.m. and on Sunday, Oct. 27 at 3 p.m.

The comedy/drama is set in 1904, just a year before Albert Einstein published his Special Theory of Relativity and three years before Pablo Picasso painted Les Demoiselles d’Avignon. The scene is the “Lapin Agile,” the Parisian cabaret-bistro where young bohemian artists drank absinthe and wrote manifestos. The play revolves around an imaginary meeting between a passionate Pablo Picasso and an enthusiastic Albert Einstein in which they wave pencils in each other’s faces and square off on the importance of art and science in the modern world.

Picasso and Einstein, two young men on the threshold of fame, vie for the attentions of a certain young lady, and for each other’s respect in a hilarious battle of

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