Word: genet
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...they stood outside the entrance door to a house production at 8:45 on opening night, waiting for a scared cast to finish its final dress rehearsal, five minutes prior to repeating it all in front of their first audience. Robert Ginn's ambitious, technically complex, production of Jean Genet's The Balcony never even made it through that all-important final run-through, and suffered consequently from an almost total absence of pacing on opening night (it ran approximately three and three-quarter hours). Undaunted, Ginn has over the week-end edited some of the more repetitious sections...
...novels and films of Genet which discuss homosexuality create a mystique stressing physical strength and masculinity, ignoring the feminine mannerisms we associate with theatrical homosexual archetype: his lyrical phallic montage, Un Chant D'Amour; is in its own strange fashion one of the most intense statements of masculine potency on film. While Genet assaults his audience with one or another shocking perversion, he is also telling them that abnormality does not, in the last analysis, exist and sexual perversion, regardless of its nature, is as divine a form of love as those more commonly sanctioned...
...redemptively altered and restored to respect, purpose and value. But the catastrophic events of 20th century history have shattered the presumptions of the problem play. Man's ineradicable genius for evil has reduced the doctrine of social engineering to puny tinkering. Playwrights like Beckett, lonesco and Genet have abandoned admonitory Ibsenite finger-waving for a nerve-shattering look into the abyss of existence itself, which in their view is stingingly futile, innately unjust and thoroughly absurd. In the future it may be said that they held a broken mirror up to the nature...
...editor and publisher is Barney Rosset, 45, president of Grove Press, a house that specializes in erotica and avant-garde authors. Its hard-cover Black Circle books and its Black Cat and Zebra paperbacks embrace everything from outright pornography (The Pearl) to mystical flights of sexual fantasy (Jean Genet's Miracle of the Rose) to revolutionary calls to action (Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth). It also has a generous supply of European anti-novelists and provocative psychologists...
...work, Henry IV is a fascinating precursor of the entire theater of the absurd-the anguish over existence in Sartre and Camus, the guerrilla warfare against ossified language and the mass mind in lonesco, the bleak, alienated vision of Beckett, the sense of man eternally acting a role in Genet, and the use of the stage as a self-contained universe in Pinter. In a towering display of the actor's craft, Kenneth Haigh confers unbrooked, unhinged regality on the title character while coiling the inner man into a sentient ball or pain...