The Maids Revival
100 Minutes, No Intermission
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St. Ann's Warehouse
45 Water St. Brooklyn, NY 11201
With their mistress away, two maids act out their darkest fantasies about Madame, their abusive “influencer” employer. They obsessively role play all day long, to the point of “murdering” her, until performance and reality begin to blur. Williams’ contemporary take is a timely parable about modern identity and the destructive desire to both emulate and annihilate those we idolize.
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Video Killed The Maids
7 / 10
Williams’s cine-theatre is an interesting device, but what’s more compelling as a viewer is the way in which human desire and action gets distorted or revealed through these technical whirls. Use a video camera all you want, but wield it with intention. Don’t make the screen an end unto itself.
Theater Review: “The Maids” and “Kenrex” — A Tale of Two Theatrical Experiments
8 / 10
The Maids is an ideal vehicle for Williams’s “cinetheatre” approach. Politically, his theatrical strategy addresses our moment, which is defined by mediated realities, performed identities, and widening class divisions. Williams’s technological innovations also serve the play’s drama of self-immolation; its barrage of images, screens, reflections, and heightened language intensifies the play’s exploration of narcissism.
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by Stephi Wild - May 27, 2026
St. Ann’s Warehouse’s 2025-26 season is culminating with The Donmar Warehouse’s production of The Maids, Jean Genet’s production about class struggle and blurred identity, in a new version written and directed by Kip Williams. Read the reviews!
by Chloe Rabinowitz - March 2, 2026
St. Ann’s Warehouse’s 2025-26 season will culminate with the Donmar Warehouse’s production of The Maids, Jean Genet’s masterpiece of class struggle and blurred identity, in a new version written and directed by Kip Williams.
The Maids History
Other Productions of The Maids
| 1978 | Off-Broadway |
Off-Broadway |
| 1986 | Off-Broadway |
Off-Broadway |
| 1993 | Off-Broadway |
Off-Broadway |
| 2005 | Off-Broadway |
Off-Broadway |
| 2014 | Off-Broadway |
Sydney Theatre Company Production Off-Broadway |
| 2026 | Off-Broadway |
Off-Broadway |
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