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The Screens
Jean Genet
出版
Grove Atlantic
, 1994-01-20
主題
Drama / European / French
ISBN
0802194311
9780802194312
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=xK3SDwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
From the acclaimed author of
The Balcony
: “A play of epic range, of original and devastating theatrical effect...a tidal wave of total theater” (Jack Kroll,
Newsweek
).
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
.
A philosophical satire of colonization, military power, and morality itself,
The Screens
is an epic tale of despicable outcasts whose very hatefulness becomes a galvanizing force of rebellion during 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.
