Word: genet
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...Genet gives detailed stage directions for almost every scene in the play. Have you pretty much followed them...
...than was done in the original production. Most pointedly in the fight between the white and black queens at the end. The director in New York, whose concept of the play was, I think, brilliant, didn't trust that you could let two people just talk that long. Genet's stage direction is something like "To be done like two ladies exchanging recipies." I've tried very much to get that quality into it. In New York it was done with all kinds of movement. I liked the movement, but I never thought he trusted Genet...
...like to look at the play politically. Genet seems to approach race antagonisms much more stylistically, and thus perhaps less directly, than American playwrights, like Leroi Jones, James Baldwin, and , more recently, Ed Bullins...
...phenomenon is almost too basic to be faced; responses to it have ranged from Rousseau'sinsistence that evil is illusory to Jean Genet's perverse, delighted acceptance of it as life's only real value. For the atheist, evil is the ultimate testimony to the meaningless absurdity of life. If God's will implies th torture of an innocent child, insists Ivan in The Brothers Karamazov, "I most respectfully return him the ticket...
...recent years, writes Critic Benjamin DeMott, "the most intense accounts of domestic life and problems, as well as the few unembarrassedly passionate love poems, have been the work of writers who are not heterosexual . . . Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee, Allen Ginsberg, Jean Genet and Auden. They have a steady consciousness of a dark side of love that is neither homo-nor heterosexual but simply human." New York Times Drama Critic Clive Barnes muses, "Creativity might be a sort of psychic disturbance itself, mightn't it? Artists are not particularly happy people anyway...