DESIRE CAUGHT BY THE TAIL

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 Picass...[Read more]