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re: NYT - Interpreting 'The Maids'

Posted by:	whereismikeyfl 10:50 am EDT 08/06/14
In reply to:	re: NYT - Interpreting 'The Maids' - enoch10 07:43 pm EDT 08/05/14

Sartre speaks about this in his introduction to the play. He quotes Our Lady of the Flowers, which suggests that he (Sartre) is inferring Genet's wishes on casting. But then he refers to the first production in a way that indicates that Genet explicitly requested this casting. Let us indicate at once a first whirligig. Genet says in Our Lady of the Flowers: "If I were to have a play put on in which women had roles, I would demand that these roles be performed by adolescent boys, and I would bring this to the attention of the spectators by means of a placard which would remain nailed to the right or left of the sets during the entire performance." [....] The Maids was actually performed by women, but this was a concession which Genet made to Louis Jouvet, who produced the play.

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