num_pages: 210
description: Jean Genet was one of the world’s greatest contemporary dramatists, and his last play, The Screens, is his crowning achievement. It strikes a powerful, closing chord to the formidable theatrical work that began with Deathwatch and continued, with even bolder variations, in The Maids, The Balcony, and The Blacks.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.
language: English
title: The Screens
titlecomplete: The Screens
characters: Habiba, Ameur, L'Appariteur, Aïcha, Habib, Le Lieutenant, Ahmed, Le Juge, La Femme, Srira, Kaddour, Monsieur Blankensee, Le Soldat de Bugeaud, Abdesselem, Nedjma, Le Deuxième Combattant, Le Reporter-Photographe, Brahim, Azouz, Madani - La Bouche, Kadidja, Hernandez, Lalla, Le Fils de Sir Harold, Attrache, Un Arabe, Smaïl, Le Soldat, Si Slimane, Bachir, Abdil, Madame Bonneuil, Naceur, Jojo, Madame Blankensee, Salem, Taleb, Malik, L'Arabe, Le Gendarme, Le Notable, Le Troisième Combattant, La Vamp, Le Cadi, Helmut, Le Banquier, Preston, Leïla, M'hamed, La Servante, Une Voix de Femme, Le Policier, Le Général (Époque du Duc d'Aumale), Moralès, Malika, Le Gendarme (II), Lahoussine, Pierre, Le Premier Combattant, Kouider, Chigha, L'Épicier, La Mère, Felton, L'Académicien, Lassen, Le Missionnaire, Djemila, Larbi, L'Homme qui a pissé, Le Gardien, Ommou, Roger, Le Mari, Warda, Walter, Le Joueur de Flûte, La Voix du Condamné à Mort, Brandineschi, Monsieur Bonneuil, Aziza, L'Homme Très-Français, Sir Harold, Nestor, Le Chef, La Petite Communiante, Saïd, M'Barek, Le Général, Mustapha, Le Gamin, Hossein, Roland, La Femme Très-Française, Le Sergent, Srir
genres: 20th Century, Literature, Classics, Drama, Plays, France, Fiction, French Literature, Read For School, Theatre
ratings_count: 291
awards: awardedAt: 63100800000
name: New York Drama Critics' Circle Award
category: Best Foreign Play
publisher: Grove Press