Les Bonnes (The Maids) by Jean Genet, the author of Le Balcon (The Balcony), Haute surveillance (Deathwatch) and Les Paravents (the screens ), erases the clear borderline between truth and imagination, announces that reality and dreams are all illusions. The performance will be a mixture of sign language and stylized body language, that is co-produced by Theatre Action and Theatre of Silence.
Les Bonnes is a play about power, cruelty and human relationships. The two maids/sisters Claire and Solange enact their love hate relationship for Madame while she is out of the home. The imitate her and put on her dresses, shoes and make-up. They act out her apparent cruelty and exploitative attitude in what seems a regular ritual. A plan to poison Madame is elaborated. Then Madame returns home and play-acting intersects with reality. But how real is the theatre?
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