The Screens - Paperback

FormatBook

Language English

ISBN-13 / SKU 9780802151582

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by Jean Genet (Author)

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.

Number of Pages: 210

Dimensions: 0.52 x 8.15 x 5.34 IN

Publication Date: January 20, 1994

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