The Maids at Subiaco Arts Centre

Jean Genet's The Maids caused a scandal when it opened in Paris in 1947 for its stark portrayal of seething working class discontent.

This dark and brooding existential play depicts two sisters, servants in an upper-class Parisian home, who nightly engage in a secret ceremony of revenge while their mistress is away.

The story follows the sisters as they weave through past and present, fiction and fantasy, truth and lies, and finally, detection and escape.