The Blacks: a clown show

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A sensational success at its first Paris performance in October, 1959, this latest of Genet's plays is an amazing syrnbolic drama probing the bafflíng enigma of reality and appearance, as startiing on the printed page as it is on the stage. In a play within a play, "a group of colored players enacts before a jury of white-masked Negroes-representing in caricature a missionary bishop, an island governor generál, a haughty queen and her dwarf lackey -the ritualistic murder of a white of which thev have been accused. When they have played out their weird and gruesome crime they turn on their judges and condemn them to death. Then-with polite adieux to the spectators-they dance with 18th-century elegance a Mozart minuet, with which the play began. . . . There is very little doubt that Jean Genet is the most important writer to have appeared in Francé since the end of the second World War."-New York Herald Tribüné "A brilliantly sardonic and lyrical tone poem for the theater. . . . This... Tovább

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A sensational success at its first Paris performance in October, 1959, this latest of Genet's plays is an amazing syrnbolic drama probing the bafflíng enigma of reality and appearance, as startiing on the printed page as it is on the stage. In a play within a play, "a group of colored players enacts before a jury of white-masked Negroes-representing in caricature a missionary bishop, an island governor generál, a haughty queen and her dwarf lackey -the ritualistic murder of a white of which thev have been accused. When they have played out their weird and gruesome crime they turn on their judges and condemn them to death. Then-with polite adieux to the spectators-they dance with 18th-century elegance a Mozart minuet, with which the play began. . . . There is very little doubt that Jean Genet is the most important writer to have appeared in Francé since the end of the second World War."-New York Herald Tribüné "A brilliantly sardonic and lyrical tone poem for the theater. . . . This vastly gifted Frenchman uses shocking words and images to cry out at the pretensions and injustices of our world. . . . One of the most originál and ím mm fan flHHH 1 HBfi' I stimulating evenings Broadway or Off Broadway has to offer." - Howard Taubman, The N. Y. Times "A vigorous, fascinating play." JjBH^^^HB^HH - John McClain, N. Y. Journal-America . . grotesque, debatable, bewildering, savage, taunting. - Frank Aston, N. Y. World-Telegram & Sun Born in Paris in 1910, JEAN GENET began writing in 1943, while serving one of his numerous prison sentences fcr theft; his first book, Our Lady of the Flowers, was immediately called a landmark in French literature. Within the next few years, Genet wrote three more novels, three plays, a volume of poems, and an autobiographical Journal. Today, he is || considered one of France's greatest living writers. Cover photo by Martha Swope GROVE PRESS, INC., 80 University Place, New York, N. Y. 10003 Vissza