“Un Fin de Semana con Pablo Picasso” to be staged in Spanish in San Diego

For the first time playwright and actor Herbert Siguenza will offer performances in Spanish of his play “Un Fin de Semana con Pablo Picasso” (A Weekend with Pablo Picasso) on the stage Sept. 7 to Oct. 6 at the San Diego Repertory Theater, where he will portray the Spanish painter at his studio in France in 1954.

Siguenza said that though the company is known for supporting the work of Hispanic authors, it has never put on a show completely in Spanish, the first language of a large segment of the city’s population.

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