Performances / Szigligeti Company / 2025-2026
Jean Genet
The Maids
Translated by:: Péter Nagy
Genet himself articulates the goal he pursued in The Maids: "I aimed for a kind of alienation that allows a declamatory tone and introduces theatre into the theatre. I also hoped that in this way I could dissolve the characters and replace them with symbols that at first seem as distant as possible from what they are meant to represent and at the same time remain connected to their meaning, thus creating the only thread linking the writer and the audience; in short, I wanted the stage characters to be mere metaphors for what they are meant to portray..." Thus, the characters themselves are only seemingly characters – in reality, they are mere symbols, mirror images, dreams within a dream. (http://www.literatura.hu/)
Synopsis translated by: Gellért Farkas.
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