Paul and Emile

Paul Cézanne and Émile Zola were inseparable as schoolboys in Aix-en-Provence.  Once up in Paris, they shivered sharing a bed and eating broiled sparrows, impatient for the world to recognize their genius, one as painter, the other as writer. Then, inexplicably, came a bitter falling out and a mystifying two decades of silence. 

After a chance encounter reunites the pair, the bonds of friendship are tested as buried secrets are revealed. Egos collide as they come to recognize the genius in the other’s work in this remarkable new play by internationally acclaimed writer (and Wellfleet resident) Kai Maristed.