With Jean Genet's apparent approval ... takes place in a highly special kind of brothel, equipped like a movie studio with sets, costumes, rear projection devices etc, which permit the patrons ...

With its blend of comedy and tragedy, the 1947 classic is a challenge for most theatre companies – but Jermyn Street carries it off in style Something of Jean Genet’s original, subversive ...

French dramatist Jean Genet is a rarity on British stages, and I can see why. There are more popular writers that do what he does, only better. Genet’s 1947 The Maids is rarely stark enough to ...

Something of Jean Genet’s original, subversive spirit has been resurrected in this highly charged revival of his 1947 classic The Maids, a co-production between Jermyn Street Theatre and Reading Rep.