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Theatre
The Maids
By Jean Genet
Translation by Benedict Andrews and Andrew Upton
Directed by Benedict Andrews
Sydney Theatre Company
Sydney Theatre
This production is a once in a lifetime theatrical highlight- Two of the world's top actresses with an up and coming star in a top class outing of one of the more difficult plays. Jean Genet is not an easily accessible writer. I have seen The Maids a number of times and not been able to get through the dense writing. I have been able to discern the obvious analogy of the rich versus the poor and the fantasy of the poor about the rich. It is a play about images and imaginings, of ambition and servitude and of corruption.
In this wonderful, classy production we have the genius of Benedict Andrews directing with an extraordinary set by Alice Babbidge The apartment of the Mistress (Elizabeth Debicki) is lush with white carpet and luxurious furnishing decorated with vast numbers of vases of flowers and a rack...