The Screens

Author

Jean Genet

Original Work

The Screens

Translator

Bernard Frechtman

Language

English

Year

1994

Publisher

Grove Atlantic

Country

United States

Pages

210

ISBN

978-0-8021-5158-2

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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.— Google Books