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...Broadway production, Blood Knot sometimes echoes with echoes, and speaks in the voices of Genet, Pinter, and even the John Steinbeck of Of Mice and Men. But Atholl Fugard, a white South African, shuns preachments and never oversimplifies the human equation. His symbols are the kind that laugh, cry and bleed...
...Playwright as Label. The one-halfmanship of buying a playwright's brand name on a piece of inferior work is illustrated by Jean Genet's The Maids. Two maids (Lee Grant and Kathleen Widdoes) dress up in their mistress' finery and plot her murder by poisoning her tea. The mistress (Eunice Anderson) avoids drinking the tea. One maid commits suicide, and the other expects to hang. For Genet, the theater is an instrument of the outcast's fantasized revenge: his characters ritually murder the authority they hate and envy by donning the vestments of the powers...
...play gains its overall effect less through representation or reality or any message than through pure theatre, much in the manner of Genet's The Blacks. Unfortunately, it lacks the impact of The Blacks. On reflecting, its caricatures contain a lot of truth, but watching them seems hollow...
...Lady of the Flowers, Genet...
...LADY OF THE FLOWERS, by Jean Genet. Playwright Genet's first novel is a scatological search for his own soul, carried out by shadowy, bisexual characters who turn out to be various elements of his psyche...