Moving The Maids from France to the US adds a powerful racial subtext to Genet's original, while Anouilh's Welcome Home, Captain Fox! fares less well when set in America. Not all plays benefit from gaining a new setting You never quite know where you are with a play these days. Of three French dramas that have recently opened in London " by Jean Anouilh, Jean Genet and Florian Zeller " two have been relocated to the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:10AM on March 23, 2016