Genet was thus imprisoned not only literally for his crimes by the court of law but also by his status as an outsider, oppressed by societal ideas of ‘good’ and ‘bad’ that denied him options or control over his life in real terms. An orphan, ward of the state, homosexual and criminal from the age of 10, Genet was rejected by society and abandoned by his mother. When he wrote The Maids in 1947, he was a complete outcast who had nothing. This type of thinking is helpful to understanding Genet’s relationship with himself. A maid does not exist without her Mistress. A performer doesn’t exist without an audience. The event that takes place when audiences watch a piece of theatre is something that cannot happen without both parties being present.
Genet allows us to gleefully make a comparison here to the relationship of audience/performer. Thus, the characters of Claire and Solange form a pair that cannot be reduced to the sum of their two individual parts - they move beyond a clear boundary. In all of Genet’s dualities, no one can exist without the other. No identity is fixed, or performed in totality, an idea further heightened by our production, in which the three characters are cast with male actors. This manifests as a constant sense of imperfection on stage. Thus the characters’ relationships, the action of the play and the interplay of reality/illusion burst the form of a ‘binary’ and thus subvert existing ways of thinking. When the third character arrives, the ‘real’ Mistress, our perception changes again. For example, when the sisters perform their special role-play together, they inhabit the roles of Mistress/Maid and yet dizzyingly slip between their fantasy roles and their ‘true identities’. There are many powerful dualities in Genet’s writing that usually serve in the modern world as organising principles (love/hate, man/woman, subject/object, bad/good, reality/illusion) and yet there is nothing organised or principled about the way he uses them. The interchangeability of their identities extends to their apologetic Mistress, who carelessly gets them mixed up (although it must be added we have done this in the rehearsal room too…). They are one of many elements in the play that suggest everything contains its opposite. The two maids in Jean Genet’s play, sisters Claire and Solange, whisper words of love and hate to each other, and therefore project onto themselves. My black socks, your black socks, my hair, your hair… Loving each other in disgust isn’t loving each other at all”. GFX: DirectX 9.0c compatible – Nvidia 8800GT / ATI 3850.Ĥ.“I can’t stand the way I see myself in you.
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