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The Maids
by Jean Genet
ACTORS
The Maids is the story of two maids who dream of leaving the shackles of servitude by killing their mistress. The play journeys in and out of the maids’ fantasies until the point of no return. Do they have the courage? Mystery, murder and outcasts making a futile effort to reach the world of acceptance and belonging possess this play. The Maids is a great accompaniment to the Halloween season as it has been compared to walking through a hall of mirrors.
“The revolt of the maids against their masters is not a social gesture, a revolutionary action; it is tinged with nostalgia and longing, like the revolt of the fallen angel Satan against the world of light from which he is forever banished.” Martin Esslin, The Theatre of the Absurd.
“It is one of the most unremittingly moving works in the modernist repertory.” Richard Eder, The New York Times, 1978.
“Genet’s printed dramas … have a shocking power and fascination. It lies in the impression they create that here is the complete and unshackled expression of an utterly evil and decadent mind, set down with a kind of grotesque pride and in entire honesty.” Richard Watts in the New York Post
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