Producing: Leiris/Picasso

BRIMMER STREET THEATRE COMPANY
IN ASSOCIATION WITH BOOTLEG THEATER
PRESENTS THE WORLD PREMIERE OF
WEDNESDAY NIGHT AT THE HOME OF MICHEL LEIRIS A READING OF THE PLAY ‘DESIRE CAUGHT BY THE TAIL’ BY THE PAINTER PABLO PICASSO
WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY DAVID JETTE

PERFORMANCES BEGIN JUNE 10 AT BOOTLEG THEATER

Leiris/Picasso twists the true story of an underground meeting between Picasso and the French existentialists into a slamming-doors sex farce.  Enduring hunger, the Nazis, and each other, the greatest thinkers of the 20th century risk their lives to find that the master has written a play so unwatchable that even they cannot stomach the pretension.

Brimmer Street Theatre Company is a Los Angeles-based performance company with a commitment to develop original theatre artists whose work challenges established forms and expectations, and to assemble a close ensemble of these artists, craftsmen, students, and benefactors to produce work of exceptional innovation and character.  The mission of BSTC is to entertain, inspire, challenge, astound, and empower audiences and artists in the Los Angeles community.  For more, visit www.BrimmerStreet.org.

Bootleg Theater is a 1930s warehouse and a home for Los Angeles artists who work in theatre, music, dance, and film.  Bootleg provides artistic support and production resources to help these artists create original and daring interdisciplinary work.  Combining art forms creates work that is surprising, unexpected, exciting and reflective of life in Los Angeles, a city where the boundaries are elastic, and not bound by tradition.  Bootleg offers Los Angeles a celebration of itself.