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Theatre: Picasso's Artful Occupation
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Playwright Ian Buckley is no stranger to communist ideas or to the city of Paris and French life. Politically active, he now spends much of his time in France.
"In my play I've tried to take my audience back nearly threequarters of a century to the occupied Paris of 1940. It was a crucial time in the history of Europe, of communism and of art," he explains.
Buckley's new play finds Pablo Picasso in the vaults of the Paris branch of the Bank of Industry and Commerce during the nazi occupation, with two young German officers who are making an inventory of the Spanish painter's stored works.
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