JEAN GENET (1910 - 1986) |
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Nationality: French Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: Rosica Colin Ltd |
Jean Genet was born in Paris in 1910. An illegitimate child who never knew his parents, he was abandoned to the Public Assistance Authorities. He was ten when he was sent to a reformatory for stealing; thereafter he spent time in the prisons of nearly every country he visited in thirty years of prowling through the European underworld. With ten convictions for theft in France to his credit he was, the eleventh time, condemned to life imprisonment. Eventually he was granted a pardon by President Auriol as a result of appeals from France's leading artists and writers led by Jean Cocteau.
Adaptation / Translations of Plays by Jean Genet
Balcony, The |
1st Produced: | - - - | 0 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, 1958 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0571045952 | |||
Music: | - | doollee no | #12576 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | extras | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Jean Genet | |||||
set in a brothel in the midst of a revolution that has wiped out all the real holders of power except the Chief of Police who now enacts the customers fantasies | ||||||
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Balcony, The |
1st Produced: | 1971 | |||||
Company: | RSC | |||||
1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, 1991 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
Music: | - | doollee no | #15404 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
Parts: | Male | 16 | Female | 8 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Jean Genet. Translated by Terry Hands and Barbara Wright | |||||
Synopsis: | set in a brothel in the midst of a revolution that has wiped out all the real holders of power except the Chief of Police who now enacts the customers fantasies | |||||
Further Reference: | - |
Balcony, The |
1st Produced: | Cambridge, Massachusetts | 1985 | ||||
Company: | American Repertory Company | |||||
1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
Music: | - | doollee no | #35374 | |||
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Genre: | translation/adaptation | |||||
Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Jean Genet | |||||
Synopsis: | The madame and VIP clients of a kinky brothel take over the country -- or do they? "Again and again we allow ourselves to be seduced by glamorous larger-than-life erotic images - political, religious, cultural, and commercial 'stars.' The more we worship these, give over our emotional centers to them, the bigger they grow while we grow smaller and our power diminishes." J-CvI | |||||
Further Reference: | - |
Balcony, The |
1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
Company: | Medicine Show Theatre Ensemble | |||||
1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
Music: | - | doollee no | #63625 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
Parts: | Male | 10 | Female | 6 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Jean Genet | |||||
Synopsis: | controversial portrait of power and intimacy, The Balcony is set in an unnamed monarchy on the brink of a bloody revolution. But life is sweet at the Grand Balcony, a brothel and 'palace of illusions' where men come to indulge their secret fantasies. Inside, the Madame and her girls assist customers in play-acting a variety of roles: a judge inflicting punishment on a beautiful thief, a bishop dealing with a sinner, a general meditating on his relationship with his horse (played by a bridled actress). Fantasy and reality become intertwined when the exploding revolution claims the lives of the country's leaders and the Police Chief replaces them with their counterparts from the brothel | |||||
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Balcony, The |
1st Produced: | 1971 | |||||
Company: | RSC | |||||
1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, 1991 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
Music: | - | doollee no | #38229 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
Parts: | Male | 16 | Female | 8 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Jean Genet. Translated by Terry Hands and Barbara Wright | |||||
Synopsis: | set in a brothel in the midst of a revolution that has wiped out all the real holders of power except the Chief of Police who now enacts the customers fantasies | |||||
Further Reference: | - |
Blacks, The |
1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
1st Published: | Samuel French, NY, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
Music: | - | doollee no | #12577 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Jean Genet | |||||
Synopsis: | in a play within a play accused coloured players re-enact the ritualistic murder of a white before a jury of white masked black men | |||||
Further Reference: | - |
Blacks, The |
1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
Music: | - | doollee no | #71725 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Jean Genet | |||||
Synopsis: | The Queen comes to a Command Performance at Theatre Royal Stratford East. But DJ Excalibah and his company of rappers, poets and comedians serve up an entertainment that is nothing like any Royal Variety Show ever seen before! | |||||
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Deathwatch |
1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
Music: | - | doollee no | #12578 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Jean Genet | |||||
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Further Reference: | - |
Deathwatch |
1st Produced: | London | 1987 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
Music: | - | doollee no | #30326 | |||
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Genre: | 1h 30m Adaptation | |||||
Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Jean Genet | |||||
Synopsis: | Two men share a prison cell with a notorious killer. One is in love with him. One wants to become him. Four female actors explore Jean Genets Deathwatch in the U.S. premiere of Obie winning playwright David Rudkins translation. | |||||
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Deathwatch |
1st Produced: | 1985 | |||||
Company: | Foco Novo Theatre Company | |||||
1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
Music: | - | doollee no | #37285 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 0 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Jean Genet. UK Tour and Young Vic , London | |||||
Synopsis: |
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Elle |
1st Produced: | Zipper Theatre, New York | 18 Jul 2002 | ||||
Company: | The Art Party | |||||
1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
Music: | - | doollee no | #113610 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Jean Genet | |||||
Synopsis: | A young photographer is to take an official photograph of the Pope. The Pope wants the photograph to be of him sitting on his chamber pot | |||||
Further Reference: | - |
Maids, The |
1st Produced: | Brighton, Old Ship Hotel | 2007 | ||||
Company: | Fairbanks Productions and Play On Words Theatre | |||||
1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
Music: | - | doollee no | #68467 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
Parts: | Male | - | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Jean Genet | |||||
Synopsis: | claustrophobic three-hander, with its power-plays, lesbian incest and homicide | |||||
Further Reference: | - |
Maids, The |
1st Produced: | Sydney Theatre, 22 Hickson Road, Walsh Bay | 04 Jun 2013 | ||||
Company: | Sydney Theatre company | |||||
1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
Music: | - | doollee no | #155949 | |||
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Genre: | translation | |||||
Parts: | Male | - | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Jean Genet. Translated by Benedict Andrews and Andrew Upton | |||||
Synopsis: | Two maids, Claire (Cate Blanchett) and Solange (Isabelle Huppert) indulge in sexual fantasies, taking turns playing the role of their mistress (Elizabeth Debicki) who has enslaved them. Both maids dream of freedom but do either of them have the nerve to actually kill their mistress when she returns? The Maids is an adaptation by Andrew Upton and Benedict Andrews of the 1947 play by Jean Genet which is loosely based on a real life murder, carried out by maids. Genet was quite the devious individual himself. He was made a ward of the state before he was one year old and became a thief and prostitute during his early adult life. Jean-Paul Sartre read one of his first novels, and lobbied for his release from life in prison, declaring him a thug of genius. So began Genets career as a writer. The Maids is both a piece of absurdist theatre and a psychological character study. This house is the maids life. They know the outside world only in shadowy fragments. They are simultaneously grateful for the kindness of their mistress and repulsed by the way she has enslaved them . | |||||
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Maids, The |
1st Produced: | 1999 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, 1999 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
Music: | - | doollee no | #8265 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Jean Genet | |||||
Synopsis: | the fantasies of two maids who are sisters as they enact their vicious charade | |||||
Further Reference: | - |
Maids, The |
1st Produced: | New Lindsay, London | 05 Jun 1956 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
Music: | - | doollee no | #12580 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Jean Genet (Les Bonnes) | |||||
Synopsis: | In The Maids, the sisters do not succeed in their ghastly mission as the real Papin sisters did. Instead, we see Claire playacting as the despised madame-blond wig, red velvet dress and all-and Solange pretending to be Claire, preparing to kill her. They get so wrapped up in the details of their hatred, however, that they run out of time to simulate the act. In real life, Solange once attempted to kill their condescending, unsympathetic madame but failed, and once the game of make believe is over and the madame returns, it will be Claire's turn to try. Claire also fails, so in the end she kills herself with the same poisoned cup of tea meant for madame. | |||||
Further Reference: | - |
Maids, The |
1st Produced: | La MaMa E.T.C., 82 Second Avenue on the second floor, NY, USA >>> | 21 Oct 1964 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
Music: | - | doollee no | #77189 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Jean Genet | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - |
Maids, The |
1st Produced: | London | 1987 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
Music: | - | doollee no | #30332 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Jean Genet | |||||
Synopsis: |
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Further Reference: | - |
Maids, The |
1st Produced: | Sydney Theatre, 22 Hickson Road, Walsh Bay | 04 Jun 2013 | ||||
Company: | Sydney Theatre company | |||||
1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
Music: | - | doollee no | #155950 | |||
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Genre: | translation | |||||
Parts: | Male | - | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Jean Genet. Translated by Benedict Andrews and Andrew Upton | |||||
Synopsis: | Two maids, Claire (Cate Blanchett) and Solange (Isabelle Huppert) indulge in sexual fantasies, taking turns playing the role of their mistress (Elizabeth Debicki) who has enslaved them. Both maids dream of freedom but do either of them have the nerve to actually kill their mistress when she returns? The Maids is an adaptation by Andrew Upton and Benedict Andrews of the 1947 play by Jean Genet which is loosely based on a real life murder, carried out by maids. Genet was quite the devious individual himself. He was made a ward of the state before he was one year old and became a thief and prostitute during his early adult life. Jean-Paul Sartre read one of his first novels, and lobbied for his release from life in prison, declaring him a thug of genius. So began Genets career as a writer. The Maids is both a piece of absurdist theatre and a psychological character study. This house is the maids life. They know the outside world only in shadowy fragments. They are simultaneously grateful for the kindness of their mistress and repulsed by the way she has enslaved them . | |||||
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Maids 3:3337, The |
1st Produced: | LaGuardia Performing Arts Center, 31-10 Thomson Avenue, Long Island City, NY | 16 Feb 2011 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
Music: | - | doollee no | #124943 | |||
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Genre: | 40 min Piece | |||||
Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Jean Genet | |||||
Synopsis: | Comprised of both LaGuardia Community College students and professional actors, Maids 3:337 is an innovative theater production conceived and directed by Handan Ozbilgin. The second installment of this yearlong project hits the stages and backrooms of LaGuardia Performing Arts Center. What will you see at Maids 3:337?Limited to 6 audience members for each performance, Maids 3:337 explores loading docks, elevators, ritual ceremonies, and the power dynamics between master and servant. With maids as a guide, the audience must decide who is the real Madame. | |||||
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MAIDS 4:39N |
1st Produced: | Flux Factory | 06 Oct 2010 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
Music: | - | doollee no | #119877 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
Parts: | Male | - | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Jean Genet | |||||
Synopsis: | Based on Jean Genet's The Maids, MAIDS 4:39N is an innovative theater production conceived and directed by Handan Ozbilgin. During this year-long project, the audience will experience the workshop processin four "easy" installments. Comprised of both LaGuardia Community College students and professional actors, MAIDS 4:39N is a pulsating theater piece that gives the audience a window into the "process." STEP 1: The garage of the Flux Factory. The cast is composed of 3 actresses from 3 different backgrounds: Middle Eastern, American, and Greek. | |||||
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Screens, The |
1st Produced: | Bristol | 1973 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
Music: | - | doollee no | #4558 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Jean Genet | |||||
Synopsis: | epic panorama on a theme of Eastern fantasies | |||||
Further Reference: | - |
Screens, The |
1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, 1963 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
Music: | - | doollee no | #12581 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Jean Genet | |||||
Synopsis: | epic panorama on a theme of Eastern fantasies | |||||
Further Reference: | - |
Screens, The |
1st Produced: | Riverside Theatre, 91 Claremont Ave, NY | 03 Mar 2010 | ||||
Company: | Columbia Stages | |||||
1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
Music: | - | doollee no | #111982 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 26 actors | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Jean Genet | |||||
Synopsis: | A 26-member cast of actors, artists, musicians and dancers re-imagine Jean Genet's last work, The Screensa poetic combustion so strong and dense that it will illuminate the world of the dead." Welcome to a world in which becoming a hero is the worst of all fates and betrayal the ultimate triumph. The Screens, set during the Algerian War, is a sharply humorous exorcism of today's taboos seen through Genet's subversive glee. This show is presented by Columbia University School of the Arts, Theatre Arts Program. | |||||
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Splendid Death, A |
1st Produced: | Calarts School of Theater, Valencia, CA | 09 Mar 2012 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
Music: | - | doollee no | #157912 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Jean Genet | |||||
Synopsis: | Seven gangsters are hiding in an hotel which is surrounded by police | |||||
Further Reference: | - |
Splendid's |
1st Produced: | 1995 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
Music: | - | doollee no | #2296 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Jean Genet | |||||
Synopsis: |
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