The Maids, Trafalgar Studios
"Murder is hilarious," quips Zawe Ashton's scheming maid, and in Jamie Lloyd's high-octane, queasily comic revival of Jean Genet's radical 1947 play, it really is. It's also lurid, strange, bleak and powerfully transcendent, as befits a piece that locates hunger for creation and liberation in the imitation and destruction of another.read more