Word: genet
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...BLACKS, by Jean Genet, just past the 1,000-performance mark, may just possibly be the finest work of art ever produced on the color question...
...SAINT GENET by Jean-Paul Sartre 625 pages. Braziller...
...Caretaker" is only the fifth program the Theatre Company of Boston has put on. Its programs this summer (plays, but not the warhorses, by Albee, Ionesco, Beckett, and Genet) and this one are of a sophistication which should prove very attractive to the Cambridge community; fortunately there are student prices at times on Saturday and Sunday. One cannot say what this "Caretaker" will be like without Herlihy, but if it is anywhere near as revealing as the production with him, it will be worth the time and money...
...bill of two important plays opens tonight at the Hotel Bostonian. Under the direction of David Wheeler, the Theatre Company of Boston will present Edward Albee's The Zoo Story and Jean Genet's The Maids...
...Maids, first produced in 1946 and revised in 1948, remains Genet's finest dramatic achievement to date. The burden falls on two actresses, who are servants that play at being each other and at being their mistress. The work's wheels-within-wheels make-believe yields a profound and fascinating study of illusion and reality, in which Genet's vision differs considerably from that of Pirandello, who dealt with the same subject most brilliantly...