Theatre Machine is excited to present Jean Genet’s The Maids, a dark and absurd story of power and servitude, and the third show in Theatre Machine’s inaugural season.
Inspired by the true of story of sisters Lea and Christine Papin who brutally murdered their employer and her daughter in Le Mans , France in 1933, Jean Genet gives us sisters Solange and Claire, two housemaids deeply resentful and envious of their upper-class employers. Throughout the action of the play, they engage in a perverse game of role-playing in which they impersonate one another as well as their hated mistress, and then take turns ritually killing her in mock murders. The Maids explores the master/servant relationship and raises questions about our civilized notions of human behavior and feminine ideals.
Theatre Machine’s mission is to produce simple, thought-provoking works that test us as artists; works that have a shocking power and appeal and that will engage as well as challenge our audiences. In this vein, we are thrilled to present Jean Genet’s The Maids, “one of the most unremittingly moving works in the modernist repertory” (Richard Elder, The New York Times).
Directing Theatre’s Machine production is our Artistic Director, Suzannah Rogan, fresh off of directing Euripides’ Medea and Carol Churchill’s Vinegar Tom (also with Theatre Machine). And featuring Molly Tomhave, Melissa Fenwick, and Bill Badgley.
What: The Maids by Jean Genet
When: August 6th-22nd Thursday through Saturday, 8:00
Where: Stone Soup’s Upstage Theatre
4035 Stone Way N Seattle , WA
Tickets: $12 General $10 TPS
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