The Screens - Couverture souple

Genet

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0802151582 ISBN 13 : 9780802151582

Editeur : Grove Press, 1994

Synopsis

Explicitly political, The Screens is set within the context of the Algerian War. The play's cast of over fifty characters moves through seventeen scenes, the world of the living breaching the world of the dead by means of shifting the screens--the only scenery--in a brilliant tour de force of spectacle and drama.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

The Screens is the last of Genet's plays to be performed during his lifetime. Its subject is the Algerian War of Independence, and it is an intricately crafted, grandiose construction - beguiling and baffling in equal measure. While the most openly political of Genet's plays, the work is not revolutionary in intent. Rather, as the play progresses the radical direction of lighting and the use of folding canvases serve to segment and compartmentalise the drama, and in so doing they transform the extremities of war into a series of incantatory scenes, vital and ritualistic, that bring stability to an otherwise unbearable reality. Haunting, savage and grotesque, The Screens is none the less an emotionally invigorating work that demonstrates redemption through abjection.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Grove Press
• Date d'édition: 1994
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0802151582
• ISBN 13: 9780802151582
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 210
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