Jean Genet’s THE MAIDS: directed by Tracy Cameron Francis, starring Bushra Laskar. THE MAIDS will play a three-week limited engagement at a site-specific Chelsea Loft (306 8th Avenue between West 25 & 26th St.). Performances begin Thursday, April 22 and continue through Saturday, May 8. Opening Night is Saturday, April 24 (7:30 p.m.).
As Jean-Paul Sartre describes in his introduction, “The most extraordinary example of the whirligigs of being and appearance, of the imaginary and the real is to be found in Genet’s The Maids…Two maids both love and hate their mistress. They have denounced her lover to the police by means of anonymous letters. Upon learning that he is to be released for lack of proof, they realize their betrayal will be discovered, and they try to murder Madame. They fail and want to kill themselves. Finally, one of them takes her life, and the other, left alone and drunk with glory, tries, by the pomp of her posturings and language, to be equal to the magnificent destiny that awaits her.”
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