Paris, 1941. Pablo Picasso has been summoned from his favorite café by German occupation forces to a storage vault across the city for an interrogation. His questioner: Miss Fischer, a beautiful “cultural attaché” from Berlin. Her assignment: discover which of the three Picasso paintings recently “confiscated” by the Nazis from their Jewish owners are real. The ministry of propaganda has planned an exhibit, and only the great artist himself can attest to their authenticity. At first Picasso agrees to her request, confirming that the three pictures are indeed his own. But when Miss Fischer reveals that the “exhibition” is actually a burning of “degenerate art,” Picasso becomes desperate to save his work and engages in a pressurized negotiation with the equally determined and wily Miss Fischer to hold on to two of his precious “children” while consigning the third to the flames. A cat-and-mouse drama about art, politics, sex and truth, with a twist at its climax.
A companion piece, "Picasso Picasso", written by R. Michael Beatty and set in modern times, will be presented as a second act. A female lecturer sets out to discredit Picasso's name because of his alleged sexist behavior when the lecture is interrupted by the ghost of Picasso himself.
Directed by R. Michael Beatty, Assistant Directed by Seyhan Kilic, and featuring Bill Svelmoe and Shannon O'Riordan.