The Screens

Genet,J

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Author
Genet,J
Publish Date
07/01/1987
Book Type
paperback
Publisher Name
GROVE
Number of Pages
210
ISBN-10
0802151582
ISBN-13
9780802151582
citemno
107407
Edition
Later Printing
SKU
9780802151582

Description

Jean Genet was one of the world’s greatest contemporary dramatists, and his last play, The Screens, is his crowning achievement. It strikes a powerful, closing chord to the formidable theatrical work that began with Deathwatch and continued, with even bolder variations, in The Maids, The Balcony, and The Blacks.

Explicitly political, The Screens is set within the context of the Algerian War. The play’s cast of over fifty characters moves through seventeen scenes, the world of the living breaching the world of the dead by means of shifting the screens—the only scenery—in a brilliant tour de force of spectacle and drama.