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Anniversaries
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Anniversaries
TODAY
Births: Sir Stanley Unwin, publisher, 1884; Oliver Hazard Perry La
Farge, writer, 1901; Sir Ralph David Richardson, actor, 1902; Leonid
Ilyich Brezhnev, Soviet leader, 1906; Jean Genet, playwright and
essayist, 1910; Edith Piaf (Edith Giovanna Gassion), singer, 1915.
Deaths: Frederick Melchior, Baron von Grimm, German statesman and
wit, 1807; Joseph Mallord William Turner, painter, 1851; Sir Paul
Gavrilovich Vinogradoff, lawyer and historian, 1925; Robert Andr...
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'What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born' ; THOUGHT OF THE DAY
The Independent - London
; Jean Genet, French writer 'The Blacks' (1959)
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Spit, polish and revenge
The Press
; Jean Genet's play The Maids seethes with class struggle and mounting erotic tension. It opens soon at Court 2. CHRISTOPHER MOORE reports. Two young women in a beautiful bedroom filled with flowers, the scent of expensive perfume, the sparkle of jewels and the sheen of designer dresses. The women
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THOUGHT OF THE DAY
The Independent - London
; 'It is not up to the artist or the poet to find practical solutions to the problem of evil' Jean Genet, French playwright (1910-1986)
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Just another prisoner; Audience held captive to 'Deathwatch' limits.(SHOW)(THEATER)
The Washington Times
; Byline: Jayne Blanchard, THE WASHINGTON TIMES French playwright Jean Genet died in 1986, but he must be cackling and merrily sucking on Gauloises in his grave over the irony that today's society holds criminals in even higher esteem than he did when he wrote Deathwatch in 1942. We worship our
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The Maids x 2.(Theater review)
Daily Variety
; (Bouwerie Lane Theater; 180 seats; $27 top) An Egopo/Cocteau Repertory Ensemble presentation of a play in two acts by Jean Genet. Directed by Lane Savadove. Sets, Nick Lopez and Savadove; costumes, Mattie Olson; lighting, Lopez; production stage manager, Ed Farrell. Opened March 31, 2006. Reviewed
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The critics: Dance - Dance choice
The Independent on Sunday
; The Maids Radical, much praised dance treatment of Jean Genet's play. Barbican Theatre, London EC2 (0845 120 7550), Mon to 29 November
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Upstairs, Downstairs and Inside Out With 'The Maids'
The Washington Post
; It would be a fine thing if masters could pierce the veil where servants live. -- Jean Genet On paper, the Washington Shakespeare Company's synopsis for "The Maids" reads like a sure formula for camp: Three men in dresses play a society woman and her rebellious servants. But Jean Genet's 1947 study
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Gay, According to Genet
The Village Voice
; Gay, According to Genet BAM takes literal approach to honor French rebel Jean Genet on Film May 14 through 22, BAM Queer cinema owes everything to a pair of dead French fags. Jean Cocteau bequeathed a vibrant neoclassicism to generations of homo sophisticates. You can feel his touch in the
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THOUGHT OF THE DAY.(Comment)
The Independent (London, England)
; 'Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man' Jean Genet, French writer 'Notes for The Screens' (1961)
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A message sacrificed
Jerusalem Post
; 00-00-0000 Headline: A message sacrificed Byline: NAOMI DOUDAI Edition; Daily Section: Arts Page: 10 Wednesday, January 8, 2003 -- The Screens (Les Paravents) - Jean Genet Habimah National Theater Hayarkon Theater Tel Aviv - Jan. 1 Our two leading theaters have just celebrated the opening of two
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