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...cast that gave Jean Genet's Deathwatch in Cambridge a year ago last spring, only Harold Scott '57 has been retained for the present, entirely new, New York production. Scott is better than he ever was, and this production is a good one. But the real importance of the occasion lies in that this play, which was introduced to America in Cambridge (kudos to John Eyre the introducer), exists on a stage again in all its striking significance...
...Genet writes of prison life with an almost unique authenticity, not only as a criminal, but as a philosopher of criminality. Many writers have cried with Eartha Kitt, "I wanna be evil," and written accordingly; but Genet is evil. The Oscar Wilde of Salome, and perhaps the Tennessee Williams of Suddenly Last Summer, appear as if they might have wanted to be Genet when they grew up; compared to him they are only dilettantes of degradation. When they write of the most deep-going taint they can imagine, they are on the outside looking eagerly in, almost with their noses...
...spring of 1957 rolled around, it occurred to someone that the Big Four in the senior class had never all worked together on the same show. To remedy this, John G. Eyre '57 put up the money and secured the rights to stage the American premiere of Jean Genet's terrifying play about prison life, Death-watch. Stephen Aaron directed, and Colgate Salsbury, Harold Scott and D.J. Sullivan took the three major roles. A wonderfully oppressive set was designed by John Ratte '57, one of the three most gifted designers here since the War (the other two being Robert Fletcher...
...ancestor, Citizen Genet, married Cornelia Tappan Clinton, daughter of George Clinton, first Governor of New York State. George was Governor 1777-95, while De Witt was Governor much later. For a while, De Witt served as secretary to his Uncle George...
...NANCY GENET ew York City...