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Thus, at the center of the contemporary stage remains the European drama represented by Beckett, lonesco, Genet, Pinter and Osborne. None are alike; yet all raise a hemlock toast to the 20th century. Theirs is a drama of metaphysical anguish, rigorous negation, asocial stance, skin-prickling guilt and anxiety, and abidingly absurd humor. In their plays, the situation of man is horrible and funny at the same time. Ionesco says that man laughs so as not to cry. The problem these playwrights pose is man's oldest and newest-the existence problem...
Conformity yields to enormity in Jean Genet. If one can imagine Walter Mitty as a criminal, a pederast and a diabolist, one has taken a quick squint into Genet's imagination. Genet makes the erotically impossible possible. He creates nuns in black lace panties, bare-breasted prostitutes with the flowing tails of ponies. But the whores, pimps, sadists and lesbians who people his plays are also his army of revenge marshaled against the world. The ritual murder of a white woman in The Blacks is a Negro act only insofar as it contains the death wish of the outcast...
...presently planned, the plays will include a double bill of Jean Genet's Deathwatch, directed by Mayer, and The Maids, directed by Babe; Gerry Raffles' and Joan Littlewood's musical, Oh What a Lovely War!; and, tentatively, the American premiere of the anti-war drama Saints' Day, by the British playwright John Whiting...
Animal Butchery. Jean Genet, France's existential sensualist, joined forces with Director Tony Richardson and Actress Jeanne Moreau, a festival favorite, to produce Mademoiselle, a story of Sodom in the suburbs. It should have been a festival favorite too; instead it got soundly, roundly booed, possibly because Moreau overworks her villainy. The film is rife with animal butchery and exotic sexuality. Sniffed one critic: "Maybe we didn't know that licking the nose of a gentleman in the moonlight constituted eroticism . . . but did we really have to know...
Much as I enjoy the role of Guardian of Undergraduate Morality for which the CRIMSON article on the cancellation of the Humanities 4 Genet film has cast me, I should like to point out a few distortions in that article...