Jasmina Reza’s stage comedy “Art” uses the purchase by one of three longtime friends of a large and expensive all-white painting to dig into not only how you define art, but, more importantly, the mechanics and foibles of friendship. In line with their eclectic and probing taste in theater, DIJO Productions is presenting this biting comedy at the Alcazar Theatre in Carpinteria, March 8 – 10, starring Bill Waxman, Ed Giron and Geren Piltz. It brings to mind a woman I overheard in the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, who loudly asked her husband “Where’s the beauty in that?!?” when looking at a series of Picasso aquatints, which were certainly among his less “distorted” and hard to “get” works, colorful, moving and lovely, to some at least. The “eye of the beholder” concept gets a funny and thorough workout in Christopher Hampton’s English translation from Reza’s original French script.
L to R: Geren Piltz, Bill Waxman and Ed Giron – Sullivan Goss Gallery, Santa Barbara
