Pablo Picasso's works come alive

How would Pablo Picasso’s paintings look like if they were brought to life? Perhaps, a lot like the play Genuine Liars that was staged in the city on Friday.

Theatre group Unicorn Actor’s Studio brought the play to the city and the audience watched in rapt attention as the story that dealt with relationships and love opened on stage.

Happy Ranajit, the director of the play, who also played one of the lead roles says, “I’m an artist myself and I have been inspired by Pablo Picasso’s work. Especially two of his works — Death of Torero and Brothel. Death of Torero has a white horse, a black bull, blood and a corpse. Picasso had interpreted the painting by saying that women are like white horses, men like bulls and they both don’t understand each other easily. And the blood and corpse is that of the relationship that dies because of troubles. So, using that as my reference I wrote the script on the relationship between a husband, wife and the wife’s ex-lover,” he explains.

But the play also has an interesting character, that of a prostitute. The character is friends with the ex-lover, Zeher, who paints her when he stays with her in the brothel. “This scene was also inspired by Picasso. When he was creating this work Brothel, the artist stayed in an area famous for prostitution and that was what I had used in the play,” says Ranajit who took six months to write the script.