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...fate was far from cruel. Things were so rough and unpredictable back in revolutionary France in 1793 that Citizen Genêt, fearing death by guillotine, asked Washington if he could stay on in the U.S. as Private Citizen Genêt. Washington's response: O.K. So Genet retired quietly to New York State, there wed the daughter of Governor De Witt Clinton, let the Revolution go by as he lived out his life with a big smile...
...Maids was written by Jean Genet, whose notoriety is far more abundant than his talent as a writer. He is reputed to be a man with a past full of most imaginative sexual contacts, and less imaginative jail sentences. As a playwright he draws on his acquaintance with the part of mankind most easily mistakable for rats, and adds a grotesque imagination to depressing subject matter. Occasionally, pure ugliness achieves dramatic effect via shock. Often it is simply ugly...
...Although Genet reputedly wanted to add a cynical touch to an already morbid and sexually suggestive play by having the maids acted by two men, Wellesley refrains. Patricia Adel and Lucienne Schupf were given the roles, and they gnaw through them histrionically but frequently well. Their occasional over-acting is probably very much what Genet would have wanted; it helps exaggerate the nebulous line between reality and artificiality. Now and then, perhaps due to Nadine's Duwez's direction, sharp emotion and vigorous gestures and poses come too obviously from nowhere...
...Jean Genet, author of "The Maids," wrote "Deathwatch," which was presented in Cambridge last spring. Genet is famous for his habitation of French prisons...
...year has seen a total of 45 student productions on the stages of Sanders Theatre, Agassiz, and various House dining halls. The works ran the theatrical gamut from tragedy to comedy, and from such standard theatre fare as Shaw and Shakespeare to the rarely performed works of Strindberg and Genet...