The screens
Subtitle: a play in seventeen scenes
By: by Jean Genet; translated from the French by Bernard Frechtman.
Contributors: Frechtman, Bernard,
Series: Evergreen book ;; E-374
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 1962
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 201
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.
Notes: Translation of: Les paravents.