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The Maids review " Katie Mitchell puts Genet's wealth-gap murder story in drag by Matt Trueman

Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam, NetherlandsJean Genet's symbolist crime drama seems all too tense and real in this contemporary setting, with a trans victim who forgot to check her privilegeJean Genet's maids were real. In 1933, the Papin sisters, Christine and Léa, murdered their mistress and her daughter, maiming their bodies and gouging out their eyes, before being found naked in bed together. The French dramatist tur…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:54AM on December 20, 2016

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