Banned Steve Martin play makes Eastern Oregon run this weekend
LA GRANDE, Ore. — The show goes on this weekend in La Grande as the student cast puts on "Picasso at the Lapin Agile," a play by Steve Martin that was banned from the high school.
Performances are scheduled today, Sunday and Monday at an Eastern Oregon University theater.
The school board voted to bar the play after parents objected to its content. After that, off-campus performances were scheduled, and Martin offered to finance them.
The 1993 play about the creative process imagines a meeting between Pablo Picasso and Albert Einstein in a Paris bar as they are on the verge of achievements in painting and physics.
Meanwhile, the school board is reviewing a new process for selecting student plays.
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