The Screens

by Jean Genet

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802151582
• ISBN13: 9780802151582
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Grove Press
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 8.2"