
Comedy
HOW TO STEAL A PICASSO
Photos below: © 2021 Gary S Mosby, Unicorn Theatre
Comedy
Photos below: © 2021 Gary S Mosby, Unicorn Theatre
Minimum Fee: $125.00 per performance
Cast of Characters:
(3 men, 2 women)JOHNNY SMITH (Late 20s – male)He gave up art to become a lawyer and regrets it. He has secrets.
CASEY SMITH (Late 20s – female)A rough/tough, street-wise, tattooed artist whose hero is Banksy.
BELLE SMITH (50ish - female)A faded Donna Reed on Ritalin, Prozac and CrestorOTTO SMITH (50ish - male)A vehement artist who hit his peak three decades ago.
MR. WALKER (40ish - male)The Chief Operating Officer of the Detroit Institute of Arts and a psychopath “lite”
(The Smiths are a blended family. The cast can be any race, ethnicity or physicality.)
“The energy of a pinball machine, all flashing lights and erratic chimes and emotions that pivot with the stroke of a flipper… How to Steal a Picasso is unapologetically zany, but Downs finds time to toss a few telling contradictions into the fray.” - Kansas City Pitch
Author
WILLIAM MISSOURI DOWNS has had over 250 productions of his plays and won numerous writing awards, including 2 rolling premieres from the National New Play Network. He's twice been a finalist at the Eugene O'Neill. His plays have been produced by Orlando Shakes, The InterAct Theatre in Philadelphia, The San Diego Rep, The Berkeley Rep, The Kennedy Center, The Salt Lake Acting Company, The Actors Theatre of Charlotte, The Jewish Theatre of Toronto, The Bloomington Playwright's Project, The Detroit Rep, and The New York City Fringe Festival just to name a few. His comedies have been produced in Spain, Canada, South Africa, Russia, Singapore, Switzerland, Austria, Israel, India, Australia, and South Korea. He's also published a dozen plays and four books including The Art of Theatre (Cengage) a textbook used by over 100 Universities. In Hollywood he sold and optioned movies and wrote for several NBC sitcoms. He’s directed 40 plays and acted in 20. ...[Go to FULL BIO]
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