Diary of a Chambermaid
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Opened Jul 26, 2004
Closed Aug 14, 2004
Opened Jul 26, 2004
Closed Aug 14, 2004
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An exploration of the perverse relationship between master and servant, Diary of a Chambermaid chronicles Celestine's (slightly wicked) adventures as a maid for the wealthy Lanlaire family. Published in 1900 in the wake of the Dreyfus Affair in France, this story created a huge scandal among Victorian critics of its day and remains one of the most scathing and darkly humorous satires of modern society, politics and religion. Directed by Adrian Giurgea.
There are additional performances on Sunday, July 25 at 8pm and Monday, July 26 at 8pm.
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Undoubtedly because he was raped by priests when he was a boy -- or so the biographies attest -- Octave Mirbeau (1848-1917) had little respect for the Catholic Church or for anything else about his native France, which he saw as unremittingly arrogant, hypocritical, and brutal. Using literary means to flagellate his fellow citoyens for their execrable behavior, he joined a line of critics and satirists that included Voltaire and Choderlos de Laclos, eventually to be swelled by Marcel Proust and, in Germany, Frank Wedekind. The novels and dramas that these gents cooked up were slathered with the piquant sauce of cynicism.
In a 1900 work, issued when the French were knee-deep in the fragmenti[...]