The Maids
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Mar 15, 2012
Closed Apr 1, 2012
Opened Mar 15, 2012
Closed Apr 1, 2012
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Running Time:
1hr. 30min.
1hr. 30min.
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Revenge tragedy meets film noir in this seductively playful and incendiary masterpiece from Jean Genet.
House-maid sisters Solange and Claire spend their days dreaming of escape, while their bourgeois employer Madame floats through life on champagne bubbles - until fantasies turn deadly in this thrilling psychological kaleidoscope of a play. Set in a phantasmagoric world of masks and mirrors, ceremonies and sensuality, heightened language and beautiful gesture, The Maids is ritualistic exploration of class, the nature of identity, and the power of imagination.
Red Bull Theater presents this rare revival, the first major New York revival of this modern classic in years, in a uniquely intimate and immersive setting with limited seating in the round.
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Two sisters play a dangerous role-playing game in Jean Genet's thrilling masterpiece of power and subversion, The Maids, now being revived by Red Bull Theater at the Theatre at St. Clement's. And although it is not perfectly executed, director Jesse Berger's production still makes several bold and effective choices.
The work's titular characters, Claire (Jeanine Serralles) and Solange (Ana Reeder) have constructed an elaborate ritual, in which they take turns dressing up in the clothes of Madame (J. Smith Cameron) and acting out fantasies of humiliation and revenge. The maids simultaneously love and hate their mistress, wanting to be her, and also to kill her. But most of all, they desper[...]