The Maids And Deathwatch by Jean Genet
A pair of hallucinatory, claustrophobic plays that stage rituals of power, imitation and desire: one tracks two servant-women who obsessively enact role-playing games that alternate adoration and murderous rage toward their absent mistress, dissolving identities into fantasy and cruelty; the other confines rival men in a prison-like arena where envy, performative masculinity and the hunger for recognition escalate into betrayal and ritualized violence. Together they probe how marginalized figures construct selves through mimicry, theatricalized domination and eroticized brutality.
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- Haute Surveillance
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