Written in French, the piece was entitled Le Désir attrapé par la queue, which translates literally to "Desire Caught by the Tail."

There the parts were read by such local literati as Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, Valentine Hugo, Raymond Queneau and Picasso himself.

[2] In June, 1959, Lorees Yerby Dutton directed a version of the play at the Coffee House Positano in Malibu, California.

The show, which was rumored (falsely) to have actors urinating on stage, was protested despite the town's generally tolerant reputation.

And the stage directions are highly impractical: the transparent doors light up and the dancing shadows of five monkeys eating carrots appear.