AMANPOUR: And finally tonight, we imagine a world inside Pablo Picasso's surreal, artistic mind. It might come as a surprise, but the iconic artist also painted with words. He wrote two plays in the tumultuous 1940s, at the height of Nazi occupied Paris. One of them, "Desire Caught by the Tale" is currently playing at a small independent art's theater here in London. While it does gave rare incite into the mind of the 20th centuries greatest and most prolific artists and the pressures he faced from the Nazis is rarely staged because, frankly, it is a bit bizarre. And it begs the question, should Picasso have kept to the canvas?</s>SOPHIE HILL, BOW ARTS GALLERY MANAGER: Picasso wrote the play. He was living in occupied Paris and in fact more war. And he went through a period of transition where he explored other mediums of art forms as well as painting. He wrote a lot of poetry and he wrote two plays. "Desire Caught by the Tail" is one of them.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Lie down and wait for the fat cat to be called.</s>CRADEAUX ALEXANDER, DIRECTOR: It's about working even when you're told you're not supposed to, which is what he was told constantly. The Nazis said you mustn't work. Your work is sinful or whatever they wanted to use at the time, and he kept on going.</s>HILL: He is massively emotive of human feeling and what we have gone through. And I think that makes it relevant to us today. You know, especially this play was written in the Second World War, we're going through a hell of a lot of conflict -- now, you know, and the world as a whole.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: A very good morning to you.</s>AMANPOUR: Well, you mustn't argue with genius. And that's it for our program. Remember, you can always listen to our podcast, see us online at Amanpour.com and follow me on Facebook and Twitter. Thanks for watching and good-bye from London. END
The Play that Puts You Inside a Picasso