Word: genet
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WHEN FRENCH playwright Jean Genet wrote The Balcony he noted that the best way to portray true good in the world was to force his audiences to confront true evil. Fake judges, generals, and bishops parade through a whorehouse, living out their petty hypocrisies and in the process exposing the so-called justice of the establishment as so many lies...
...literary critic George Neveaux wrote, "The entire theatre of an era came out of the womb of that play, Six Characters." Pirandello's revolution in form and content profoundly influenced the works of Sartre, Anouilh, Genet, Camus, Ionesco, Beckett, and many other playwrights. Pirandello's dramaturgy contributed significantly to this new form of theatre--his acceptance of the stage for what it was, his knowledge that it did not need to be a true-to-life copy of the real thing. He saw the stage as a place of magic and illusion...
...extravagant gestures, confronting the audience with stylized, scatological invective. It is like being back in the rumble seat of '60s performance art, but with a raw poetic urgency. Other English play wrights may update Shaw; Berkoff wants to be an East End blend of Sam Shepard and Jean Genet. West, the first of his plays to infiltrate the West End, can be seen as a new West Side Story. Mike (Rory Edwards), leader of a quintet of Hackney toughs, challenges a rival gang boss to one-on-one combat and just barely lives to tell the tale. Berkoffs twist...
Fuentes, who told. The Crimson in 1981 "I must write," has penned ten novels, three plays, and a host of critical essays, including commentary on Melville, Faulkner, Bunuel, and Genet. His first novel, "Where the Air is Clear," appeared...
...Sister in This House by Wendy Kesselman had its genesis in a famous French murder case that inspired Jean Genet's The Maids. In 1933, in Le Mans, Léa and Christine Papin killed their employer, Mme. Lancelin, and her daughter. Kesselman has retained the names of the sisters, but otherwise the play is very much her own. The playwright focuses on mother-daughter relationships, intimate sisterly affection and a rigid class structure that borders on the feudal droit du seigneur...