Yo! Picasso! (Beside Picasso)

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From poverty-sticken youth in Barcelona to international success as leading players in the artistic avant garde Pablo Picasso and Jaime Sabartes lived through much together. But now is the time of reckoning... It is 1973. Picasso has just died. Sabartes is in some strange limbo - and Picasso joins him. However Sabartes is no longer the oppressed doormat he once was. He starts to take Picasso apart... This verbally venemous, effervescent play is an often hilarious exploration of power, friendship, sex, money and the nature of genius. Picasso and Sabartes are like boxers in a ring, pitted in a ruthless contest to discover 'the truth'. They reminisce, argue and resurrect the triumphs, escapades and characters from their extraordinary lives. Gradually they edge closer to the ultimate truth, the ultimate quarrel, and the ultimate betrayal...

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Moving, uncompromising, absolutely compelling...this was such good theatre. * BBC Radio *

Author Bio

Brian McAvera is a playwright for stage, radio, television and film. Theatre work includes The Troubles' Trilogy, the musical Cannon, Unchartered Waters and the two-hander Beside Picasso. Radio work includes Marie, Croniamental and versions of Picasso's Women. Television work includes Undertow of the Armada, and the film Angel Visitant which he also produced and directed. As an art critic and historian McAvera has published three books of Irish art history, one on South Asian art, and numerous catalogues and articles.