Genet The Balcony

 

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The Balcony, by Jean Genet. The copy I have is translated by Bernard Frechtman. I love Jean Genet. (Not as much as Emily does, perhaps Genet is one of Emily’s passions, and through her posts on Genet, I have re-looked at the plays of his that I have. It’s been very fun.). The Balcony (1963) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. The Balcony, play by Jean Genet, produced and published in 1956 as Le Balcon. Influenced by the Theatre of Cruelty, The Balcony contains nine scenes, eight of which are set inside the Grand Balcony bordello. The brothel is a repository of illusion in a. Genet provocatively portrays modern society, tearing away the masks of social roles and revealing the nature of power. Vaudeville and philosophy, revolution and counter-revolution, illusion and reality are intertwined in the play. The Balcony has been staged in different theaters of the world many times. The play was interpreted by the great. The setting of Jean Genet's celebrated play is a brothel that caters to refined sensibilities and peculiar tastes. Here men from all walks of life don the garb of their fantasies and act them out: a man from the gas company wears the robe and mitre of a bishop; another customer becomes a flagellant judge, and still another a victorious general, while a bank clerk defiles the Virgin mary.

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The denizens of a sordid brothel become embroiled in a bloody coup in this arty political satire adapted from the Jean Genet play. Shelley Winters stars as the cathouse's madam, a stern woman who supervises the fantasy role-playing of her beautiful employees and their well-heeled customers, including the local police chief (Peter Falk). As various whores and their johns dress up like judges, penitents, bishops, and generals, a revolution rages outside in the streets. The leaders of society -- including the queen -- are done away with by an angry mob. Soon, the madam and her compatriots find themselves ordered to impersonate the slain bigwigs in order to restore law and order. Shot in black-and-white by cinematographer George Folsey and producer/director Joseph Strick, The Balcony features a number of future stars in its cast, from Ruby Dee and Lee Grant to Leonard Nimoy. Nimoy would go on to produce and star in Deathwatch, another Genet adaptation. Unlike the later film, Genet was actually involved in the film version of The Balcony, collaborating with Strick on the original treatment but leaving the final screenplay to poet and novelist Ben Maddow. Strick acquired the rights to The Balcony from Genet only after failing to mount another literary adaptation, of James Joyce's Ulysses.