Word: genetics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Genet gives detailed stage directions for almost every scene in the play. Have you pretty much followed them...
...than was done in the original production. Most pointedly in the fight between the white and black queens at the end. The director in New York, whose concept of the play was, I think, brilliant, didn't trust that you could let two people just talk that long. Genet's stage direction is something like "To be done like two ladies exchanging recipies." I've tried very much to get that quality into it. In New York it was done with all kinds of movement. I liked the movement, but I never thought he trusted Genet...
...like to look at the play politically. Genet seems to approach race antagonisms much more stylistically, and thus perhaps less directly, than American playwrights, like Leroi Jones, James Baldwin, and , more recently, Ed Bullins...