My Name is Pablo Picasso

1984 Published by Currency Press, Sydney when it ran at The Australian National Gallery, Canberra.

MY NAME IS PABLO PICASSO

Synopsis

Picasso's life and work is encapsulated in a 90 minute play that mirrors Picasso's Cubism by

breaking the traditional rules of theater just as Picasso defied the traditional rules of art

Australian Production History

1979 Written while I was Playwright-in-Residence at the National Theatre, Perth, Western Australia.

Commissioned by Lou Klepac, Director of the Western Australian Art Gallery.

1980 Selected to be read at the Australian National Playwrights Conference in Canberra

1982 Premier production at the Hole in the Wall, Perth, W.A. and ran at the Adelaide Festival

1983. Ran alongside a PIcasso exhibition at the Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne.

1984 Ran at the Australian National Gallery in Canberra alongside a Picasso exhibition.

Once it was published,it had productions in every State of Australia, including a tour of New South Wales in 1983.

1982 World Premier at the Perth and Adelaide Festivals.

Original set of My Name is Pablo Picasso, used at both the Perth and Adelaide Festivals.

Playbox poster at the Victorian Arts Centre in Melbourne. where it ran in 1984, in conjunction with a Picasso exhibition.

USA production history

after Penn State flew me to the USA in 1987

1988 produced at the Palmer Museum of Art ,

1990 produced at the South Street Theatre 42nd St, NYC, by Lou Bisignani

1885 produced at the American Theater of Actors on W 53rd St. NYC by James Jennings

2011 produced at the State Theater in State College, PA., and at the Fringe Festival, Washington D.C.

2008 translated into French by Nicole Levy

1990 Produced by Lou Bisignani at the South St Theatre, 42nd Street W, NYC

1988 First American production at The Palmer Museum of Art, The Pennsylvania State University.

2011 Poster for its production at the State Theater, State College PA, before The Fringe Festival, in Washington D.C.