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Questions of terror and identity dominate the Loeb staging of The Blacks, written by playwright Jean Genet in 1958. Despite weak direction that at times reduces the complexity of Genet to a confused gray monotone, some unnerving answers do emerge in John Kirkwood's Black CAST production...
...Blacks. Jean Genet's symbolic clown drama uses the metaphor of race hatred to suggest the absurdity of society and life in general. At the Loeb, April 8-11 and 14-17, at 8 p.m. Tickets...
Deathwatch. After 30 religiously criminal years, Jean Genet shifted to writing with a disconcerting blend of mysticism and street-eroticism about homosexuals, pilferers and murder--the making of Deathwatch...
...anarchist--that is, he holds individualist activity above any other. Anarchy jibes with his definition of the limit of freedom: "the small movement which makes of a totally conditioned social being someone who does not render back completely what his conditioning has given him. Which makes Genet a poet when he had been rigorously conditioned to be a thief." The Invisible Man affirms his freedom when he says...
...opening night Mick Jogger sent Kemp a basket of lilies, and the critics sent Kemp a bouquet of reviews in which outrage mingled with fascination. "I don't want to shock people," retorts Kemp. "I want to astonish them." He has been deeply influenced by French Playwright Jean Genet and Mime Marcel Marceau. "To me," says Kemp airily, "mime is not about climbing up the stairs but about what you find when...