Jobsite Theater offers up a sexy and smart classic in Jean Genet's unequivocally literate 1947 play THE MAIDS, playing April 29 - May 22, 2016 in the Shimberg Playhouse at the Straz Center where Jobsite is resident theater company. BroadwayWorld has a sneak peek at the cast in costume below!
THE MAIDS was French poet, novelist, art critic, essayist, and film-maker Jean Genet's first play to be produced, coming hot on the heels of the publication of his most famous book, "Our Lady of Flowers." It is inspired by the famous 1933 French murder trial of Christine and Lea Papin, two sisters employed as maids, who gruesomely killed their employer and her adult daughter. In THE MAIDS two sisters role-play while the lady of the house is away, ritualistically acting out fantasies of both love and revenge. As the games intensify, the incipient violence escalates as they await Madame's return from a romantic rendezvous. Genet's potent poetic psychodrama explores power, dominance and submission, class struggles, and the various ways we role-play and create illusions in our daily lives. THE MAIDS is a highly and self-consciously theatrical play that builds a palpable level of suspense and mystery as it goes. Audiences will be kept wrapt and trying to guess what will happen next until the lights go to black.Photo Credit: Pritchard Photography
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